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Radeon Software For Linux 20.10 Driver Released

Phoronix - Sat, 04/18/2020 - 00:09
AMD has finally released their first "Radeon Software for Linux" packaged driver release to succeed their Radeon Software for Linux 19.50 driver series that saw its last update in December. Radeon Software for Linux 20.10 is available today as their first packaged Linux driver update of 2020 for AND Radeon Linux owners as the packaged solution intended for easy installation of their All-Open and "PRO" driver components...

Chrome 83 Beta Rolls Out With Better Form Controls, Barcode Detection API

Phoronix - Fri, 04/17/2020 - 23:11
Following the release of Chrome 81 earlier this month, Chrome 83 is now in beta with Google having skipped Chrome 82 due to delays / internal issues...

Initial Benchmarks Of Schedutil Performance On Linux 5.7 Show Room Still For Improvement

Phoronix - Fri, 04/17/2020 - 22:45
With Linux 5.7 the kernel is preparing to use the Schedutil governor more often on Intel systems. That change affects the CPUfreq default as well as the Intel P-State driver when in passive mode. While Schedutil holds a lot of hope, at least on Linux 5.7 with the testing I've done thus far the results show the raw performance slipping while testing on more platforms is forthcoming.

Intel Sends Initial Linux 5.8 Graphics Driver Updates - Adds Ability For Tapping Full EU Perf, More Tiger Lake Bits

Phoronix - Fri, 04/17/2020 - 19:50
Less than one week since the release of Linux 5.7-rc1, Intel's large open-source graphics team has already submitted their first pull request to DRM-Next of changes for Linux 5.8...

An Intel Engineer Has Another Optimization For Possible Performance Degradation On Linux

Phoronix - Fri, 04/17/2020 - 19:09
Besides the long-running FSGSBASE patch series that has the ability to help the performance for CPUs going back years, another engineer on Intel's open-source team has been working on a separate but enticing patch in the name of performance...

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