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AMD Programmer Manual Update Points To PCID Support, Memory Protection Keys

Phoronix - Thu, 04/30/2020 - 03:50
It looks like AMD Zen 3 CPUs will finally be supporting PCID! And memory protection keys are coming too, at least according to AMD's latest programmer reference manual...

For Radeon Gamers On Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, It's Generally Worthwhile Flipping On RADV's ACO

Phoronix - Thu, 04/30/2020 - 02:55
A premium supporter was asking this week whether for those newly-upgraded to Ubuntu 20.04 LTS if the graphics stack is in good enough shape or if I would recommend running Mesa 20.1-devel for better AMD Linux gaming performance... The short answer, sans any particular changes you are after in Mesa 20.1-devel, the bigger gain for running on this new Ubuntu release is to instead enable RADV+ACO as a much more pressing boost...

DisplayPort Alt Mode 2.0 Brings Interoperability With USB4

Phoronix - Thu, 04/30/2020 - 00:07
VESA announced today version 2.0 of the DisplayPort Alternate Mode specification...

Radeon Displayable DCC Gets Enabled For Navi 12 + Navi 14 GPUs

Phoronix - Wed, 04/29/2020 - 23:24
Adding to the last minute AMD Radeon additions for making the Mesa 20.1 feature cut-off is enabling displayable DCC support for Navi 12 and Navi 14 graphics processors...

Java security, mainframes having a moment, and more industry trends

opensource.com - Wed, 04/29/2020 - 23:20

As part of my role as a senior product marketing manager at an enterprise software company with an open source development model, I publish a regular update about open source community, market, and industry trends for product marketers, managers, and other influencers. Here are five of my and their favorite articles from that update.


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Generic USB Display Driver Published For Linux - Allowing Nifty Possibilities With Raspberry Pi, Etc

Phoronix - Wed, 04/29/2020 - 22:08
Longtime Linux DRM developer Noralf Trønnes has written a new driver for Linux to serve generic USB display purposes. This driver was written following his idea of turning a Raspberry Pi Zero into a USB to HDMI display adapter...

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