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AGP Graphics Card Support Proposed For Removal From Linux Radeon/NVIDIA Drivers

Phoronix - Tue, 05/12/2020 - 01:34
Longtime AMD open-source driver developer Christian König is proposing the removal of AGP graphics card support from their Radeon kernel driver as well as the open-source NVIDIA "Nouveau" kernel driver and in turn removing the AGP related code from the TTM memory management code...

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...

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