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AMD Relaunches GPUOpen For Open-Source Game Development Resources

Phoronix - Mon, 05/11/2020 - 23:35
AMD announced this morning the relaunch of GPUOpen, the company's effort on providing open-source development resources primarily for game developers in making use of various Radeon GPU technologies and other open standards across Windows and Linux...

Thunderspy Is A New Vulnerability Affecting Thunderbolt Security

Phoronix - Mon, 05/11/2020 - 23:04
Thunderspy is a class of seven vulnerabilities found within Intel's Thunderbolt 3 hardware and the researchers having found nine realistic scenarios for exploiting these Thunderbolt issues across platforms...

IBM Drops The "Silliness" - POWERXX Is Indeed POWER10 With Updated Open-Source Patches

Phoronix - Mon, 05/11/2020 - 22:00
Over the past year IBM engineers have been plumbing "future" processor support into the GCC compiler and related GNU toolchain components. The patches often referred to the work either as "future" or "powerxx" while today is christened as what was pretty much obvious all along: it's POWER10...

Firefox 76 + 77 Beta Web Browser Benchmarks On Ubuntu Linux

Phoronix - Mon, 05/11/2020 - 20:39
Given last week's release of Firefox 76 and promoting 77 to beta, here are some fresh benchmarks of the recent Mozilla Firefox releases on Ubuntu Linux...

Zink GL-Over-Vulkan Now Supports Conditional Rendering - Stepping Towards OpenGL 3.0

Phoronix - Mon, 05/11/2020 - 19:38
The Zink Gallium3D driver project that is layering OpenGL over Vulkan is one step closer to exposing OpenGL 3.0 capabilities...

RadeonSI Driver Now Supports AMD Trusted Memory Zone

Phoronix - Mon, 05/11/2020 - 19:06
With the AMDGPU kernel driver adding Trusted Memory Zone support for the Linux 5.8 kernel, Mesa 20.2-devel has now landed support for the RadeonSI driver to make use of this TMZ functionality...

FSGSBASE v12 Patches Published With Even Microsoft Intrigued By Its Performance

Phoronix - Mon, 05/11/2020 - 18:46
Just this weekend we were writing about the eleventh spin of the Linux FSGSBASE patches for this capability that can help out performance going back to Ivy Bridge era processors. Kicking off Monday, version twelve is already out and an explanation why a Microsoft developer has been stewarding these patches across the finish line...

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