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Xilinx Publishes An Open-Source AI Engine Kernel Driver For Linux

Phoronix - Thu, 11/19/2020 - 13:05
In addition to AMD and Xilinx bringing ROCm to FPGAs, another interesting open-source/Linux milestone for the company being acquired by AMD is their publishing of the AI Engine open-source kernel driver with ambitions for upstreaming it...

A Basic Guide to Linux Boot Process

Tecmint - Thu, 11/19/2020 - 13:00

Every time you power on your Linux PC, it goes through a series of stages before finally displaying a login screen that prompts for your username or password. There are 4 distinct stages that

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Google Publishes Latest Linux Core Scheduling Patches So Only Trusted Tasks Share A Core

Phoronix - Thu, 11/19/2020 - 07:46
Google engineer Joel Fernandes sent out the ninth version of their "core scheduling" patches for the Linux kernel that allows for allowing only trusted tasks to run concurrently on the same CPU core -- in cases where Hyper Threading is involved to safeguard the system against the possible security exploits...

AMD ROCm Open-Source Stack Coming To Xilinx FPGAs

Phoronix - Thu, 11/19/2020 - 03:48
Now here is some darn interesting software news from SC20... AMD, which is in the process of acquiring Xilinx, is bringing the Radeon Open eCosystem "ROCm" stack to Xilinx hardware...

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