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PHP 8.0 Is Too Fresh For Fedora 34 That It Will Be Punted To F35 In The Autumn

Phoronix - Sun, 01/10/2021 - 16:25
While Fedora has been well known for years in always shipping the very latest packages in its distribution as of release even if it means using the likes of a near-final GCC compiler pre-release, developers have decided to postpone the shipping of PHP 8.0 until the autumn with their Fedora 35 release...

Intel Vision Processing Unit Patches Updated For The Linux Kernel

Phoronix - Sun, 01/10/2021 - 13:16
As part of Intel's lengthy "Keem Bay" upstreaming for Linux as their latest-generation Movidius VPU offering, now that much of the core infrastructure bits are all mainlined, the latest focus has been on their Vision Processing Unit enablement...

Intel Preparing New Driver Option To Disable GPU Security Mitigations

Phoronix - Sun, 01/10/2021 - 03:31
Stemming from the renewed attention this week of Haswell GT1 graphics being broken for the past half-year under Linux with the latest versions of the kernel, a revised patch was sent out to restore that graphics support for low-end Haswell Celeron/Pentium processors. As part of that, a new option is being introduced to allow disabling security mitigations of the Intel graphics driver...

AMD Making Progress On HMM-Based SVM Memory Manager For Open-Source Compute

Phoronix - Sat, 01/09/2021 - 22:46
This week AMD engineers published their initial code for the AMDGPU/AMDKFD Linux kernel driver for providing a Heterogeneous Memory Management based Shared Virtual Memory (SVM) memory manager that ultimately will be used by their ROCm compute stack...

Alibaba's MNN Deep Learning Framework Continues Squeezing More Performance

Phoronix - Sat, 01/09/2021 - 22:03
Alibaba developers released an updated version of their "blazing fast" lightweight deep learning framework MNN, or the Mobile Neural Network...

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