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Tesla Is Making Use Of The Open-Source Coreboot Within Their Electric Vehicles

Phoronix - Wed, 01/15/2020 - 03:00
Not only is Linux increasingly used within automobiles but it turns out at least one automobile manufacturer is even using Coreboot within their vehicles...

Intel's Linux Graphics Driver Gets Patched For A Gen9 Graphics Vulnerability

Phoronix - Wed, 01/15/2020 - 02:29
On top of the Intel graphics driver patches back from November for denial of service and privilege escalation bugs, the Linux kernel received a new patch today for "CVE-2019-14615" regarding a possible data disclosure with Gen9 graphics hardware...

The Time Namespace Appears To Finally Be On-Deck For The Mainline Linux Kernel

Phoronix - Wed, 01/15/2020 - 00:32
Back in 2018 a time namespace was proposed for the Linux kernel and now in 2020 it looks like this kernel functionality will be merged for mainline, likely with the upcoming Linux 5.6 cycle...

CoreAVI VkCoreGL SC1 Hits Compliance For Ushering Vulkan Into Safety Critical Systems

Phoronix - Tue, 01/14/2020 - 23:42
Vulkan could soon be used indirectly on safety critical military and aerospace displays thanks to CoreAVI's VkCoreGL SC1...

Goals: Red Hat Developer Working On New Tool To Improve Upon Make

Phoronix - Tue, 01/14/2020 - 22:12
Longtime Red Hat developer Richard Jones has begun developing "Goals" as a new tool to improve upon Make, the common build automation tool...

LLVM/Clang 10.0 Adds AMD Zen 2 Scheduler Model For Optimized Code Generation

Phoronix - Tue, 01/14/2020 - 20:40
It's too bad that it has taken so many months after AMD Zen 2 based Ryzen and EPYC processors began shipping to see this compiler support in place, but the good news now is that for the upcoming release of LLVM 10.0 is now the Zen 2 scheduler model being added to the "znver2" target...

AMD Begins Providing PowerPC Builds Of Their "AOMP" GPU Compiler

Phoronix - Tue, 01/14/2020 - 20:07
AOMP is the AMD GPU compiler for OpenMP and HIP support on GPUs as part of Radeon Open Compute 3.0 (ROCm 3.0). Now they have begun providing PowerPC 64-bit LE builds of AOMP as part of allowing Radeon GPU compute to happen on POWER9 systems...

The MLIR-Targeting "FC" LLVM Fortran Compiler Is Now Open-Source

Phoronix - Tue, 01/14/2020 - 17:06
Last week we reported on "FC" as a new LLVM Fortran compiler targeting the new MLIR intermediate representation. That new Fortran compiler is now public and open-source...

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