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Valve's ACO Shader Compiler Back-End For Radeon Vulkan Is Now In Good Shape For GCN 1.0

Phoronix - Fri, 01/24/2020 - 01:55
As last minute material for Mesa 20.0 is making Valve's "ACO" AMD compiler back-end for the RADV Vulkan driver in better shape for GFX6/GCN1.0 graphics hardware...

AMD vs. Intel Contributions To The Linux Kernel Over The Past Decade

Phoronix - Thu, 01/23/2020 - 22:30
Driven by curiosity sake, here is a look at how the total number of AMD and Intel developers contributed to the upstream Linux kernel during the 2010s as well as the total number of commits each year from the respective hardware vendors...

LibreOffice 7.0 Is The Version Now In Development With Its Skia + Vulkan Support

Phoronix - Thu, 01/23/2020 - 21:20
LibreOffice 6.4 is set to be released in the coming days while succeeding that will now be LibreOffice 7.0...

Flatpak 1.6.1 Released Due To Security Issue - Special Case Of Getting Access Outside Home

Phoronix - Thu, 01/23/2020 - 21:10
Flatpak 1.6 was an exciting update for this Linux application sandboxing/distribution tech in that it started laying the foundation to support a paid app store but elsewhere in the code-base a security issue came about...

Gutting Out Intel MPX Support To Be Finished Up In The Linux 5.6 Kernel

Phoronix - Thu, 01/23/2020 - 20:38
Last year Linux kernel developers began removing support for Intel's Memory Protection Extensions (MPX) and that looks like it will be finished up in the forthcoming Linux 5.6 cycle...

RHEL 8.2 Beta Application Streams Bring GCC 9.1, Python 3.8

Phoronix - Thu, 01/23/2020 - 20:24
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 entered public beta this week as the latest installment to RHEL8...

Linux k10temp Driver For AMD CPUs Updated To Better Handle Power/Temp Analysis

Phoronix - Thu, 01/23/2020 - 16:57
As we have been eagerly talking about for the past week, the Linux kernel's k10temp driver was updated for better AMD CPU CCD temperatures and voltage/current reporting. Those improvements have been quickly evolving thanks to the work of the open-source community with AMD still sadly holding the datasheets concerning the power/temperature registers close to their vest. A new version of k10temp was sent out on Wednesday...

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