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Linux Gets Fix For AMD Zen 3 CPU Frequency Handling Stemming From 8 Year Old Workaround

Phoronix - Sat, 10/24/2020 - 18:47
Since 2012 there has been a quirk in the Linux kernel to disable/override using ACPI _PSD data on all AMD processors as a workaround in turn for Windows-specific behavior that clashes with the semantics of the Linux ACPI CPUFreq driver for CPU frequency scaling. With AMD Zen 3 this quirk is no longer needed to behave correctly and thus Linux 5.10 is going to drop this eight year old quirk on Zen 3 and newer...

Wine-Staging 5.20 Released With ESYNC Support Re-Enabled

Phoronix - Sat, 10/24/2020 - 17:55
Building off the Friday release of Wine 5.20, a new Wine-Staging release is now available that is carrying more than 750 patches atop the upstream code-base that are currently undergoing testing...

Linux 5.10 Has Initial Support For NVIDIA Orin, DeviceTree For Purism's Librem 5

Phoronix - Sat, 10/24/2020 - 15:06
Complementing the ARM(64) architecture changes for Linux 5.10 are now the SoC and board updates that are quite interesting this round...

OpenJ9 0.23 Released As Latest Eclipse Java Virtual Machine

Phoronix - Sat, 10/24/2020 - 12:09
Version 0.23 of the Eclipse OpenJ9 Java Virtual Machine was released this week in continuing to focus on being a high performance, open-source JVM...

EXT4 Changes Land In Linux 5.10 With Fast Commits, Big Boost For Parallel Writes

Phoronix - Sat, 10/24/2020 - 08:28
The EXT4 file-system updates have landed in Linux 5.10 with some notable additions for this mature file-system...

Wine 5.20 Released With Various Improvements For Running Windows Software On Linux

Phoronix - Sat, 10/24/2020 - 03:36
Wine 5.20 was just released as the newest bi-weekly development milestone for this solution to run Windows games and other software on Linux, macOS, and other platforms...

Intel Xe Graphics' Incredible Performance Uplift From OpenCL To oneAPI Level Zero To Vulkan

Phoronix - Fri, 10/23/2020 - 23:20
Since picking up the Dell XPS 13 9310 for delivering Tiger Lake Linux benchmarks, most of the focus so far has been about the overall processor performance while in this article is our first deep dive into the Gen12 Xe Graphics performance on Linux with Intel's fully open-source graphics and compute stack. Here is a look at how the Tiger Lake Xe Graphics performance is with the Core i7-1165G7 ranging from OpenGL and Vulkan graphics tests to OpenCL, oneAPI Level Zero, and Vulkan compute tests.

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