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Updated Dasharo Firmware Pulls In Raptor Lake Instability Fix, Other Enhancements

Phoronix - Tue, 12/10/2024 - 23:00
For those wanting to run Coreboot or Coreboot-derived firmware on a modern desktop motherboard with good performance and features, the main contender currently is 3mdeb's Dasharo downstream that can be flashed on the MSI PRO Z790-P/Z790-P motherboards for using with Intel Core Alder Lake and Raptor Lake processors. Firmware consulting firm 3mdeb today published a new Dasharo firmware update for the MSI PRO Z790-P WIFI motherboard...

Optimizing Linux MD Bitmap Code Yields 89% Throughput Boost For Quad SSDs

Phoronix - Tue, 12/10/2024 - 19:39
A promising patch for the Linux kernel is optimizing the locking contention and scattered address space for the MD bitmap code to improve both the storage throughput and latency...

IBM Deprecating Linux Drivers For CXL Coherent Accelerators & CAPI Flash

Phoronix - Tue, 12/10/2024 - 19:18
IBM engineers announced they are deprecating the upstream CXL and CXLFLASH Linux kernel drivers with plans to then remove the drivers from the mainline kernel the following cycle. Before getting too worked up when seeing the "cxl: Deprecate driver" patch, this is about the Coherent Accelerator Processor Interface (CAPI) that predates the Compute Express Link...

Servo Browser Engine Landed More Performance Optimizations In November

Phoronix - Tue, 12/10/2024 - 18:57
The Servo browser engine project is out with their latest monthly status update to outline improvements made to this Rust-based open-source engine...

NVIDIA Releases EGL-Wayland 1.1.17

Phoronix - Tue, 12/10/2024 - 18:53
NVIDIA published EGL-Wayland 1.1.17 on Monday as the newest update to this Wayland EGL external platform library to provide client-side Wayland support to EGL atop the EGLDevice and EGLStream extensions...

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