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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...

POWER9 + ARM64 Performance For Dav1d 0.8 AV1 Decoding

Phoronix - Sat, 01/09/2021 - 20:51
With last week's release of dav1d 0.8 for CPU-based AV1 video decoding we provided a number of x86_64 benchmarks while questions were raised around the ARM64 and POWER9 performance. Here are such benchmarks for those wondering about the AV1 video decoding speed on those architectures...

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