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Intel Linux Graphics Driver Adds Bits For Jasper Lake PCH

Phoronix - Tue, 10/15/2019 - 06:00
Details are still light on Jasper Lake, but volleyed onto the public mailing list today was the initial support for the Jasper Lake PCH within the open-source Linux graphics driver side...

PyPy 7.2 Released With Full 64-bit AArch64 Support, PyPy 3.6 Beyond Beta

Phoronix - Tue, 10/15/2019 - 04:11
PyPy 7.2 is out today as a big update for this alternative Python implementation that currently provides interpreters for compatibility with Python 2.7 and Python 3.6...

Debian 11 To Further Deprecate IPTables In Favor Of Nftables Plus Promoting Firewalld

Phoronix - Tue, 10/15/2019 - 02:23
Debian 10 "Buster" already is making use of IPTables' Netfilter back-end by default in their path to deprecate IPTables while for Debian 11 the deprecation will continue further...

Sony Pushes More AMD Jaguar Optimizations To Upstream LLVM 10 Compiler

Phoronix - Tue, 10/15/2019 - 01:19
Sony engineers working on the PlayStation compiler toolchain continue upstreaming various improvements to the LLVM source tree for helping the AMD APUs powering their latest game console...

Google USB-C Titan Security Keys Begin Shipping Tomorrow

Phoronix - Tue, 10/15/2019 - 00:22
Google announced their new USB-C Titan Security Key will begin shipping tomorrow for offering two-factor authentication support with not only Android devices but all the major operating systems as well...

ASRock Rack EPYCD8 Series Make For Great Value AMD EPYC Motherboards With Rome Support

Phoronix - Mon, 10/14/2019 - 22:36
For those that have been interested in AMD's EPYC 7002 "Rome" processors for your own server build, more 7002 series supported motherboards have been hitting Internet stores in recent weeks. If you are looking for one of the lower-cost motherboards, ASRock Rack's EPYCD8 motherboards have been refined with 7001/7002 series processor support.

Intel Firmware Binaries Land For AX200/AX201 Bluetooth Linux Support

Phoronix - Mon, 10/14/2019 - 20:16
With devices beginning to hit store shelves using the new Intel WiFi 6 AX200 series chipsets, the firmware binaries have landed in linux-firmware.git for rounding out support for these latest WiFi/Bluetooth adapters...

LLVM "Stack Clash" Compiler Protection Is Under Review

Phoronix - Mon, 10/14/2019 - 19:29
Two years after the "Stack Clash" vulnerability came to light, the LLVM compiler is working on adding protection against it similar to the GCC compiler mitigation...

SHADERed 1.2.3 Released With Support For 3D Textures & Audio Shaders

Phoronix - Mon, 10/14/2019 - 19:00
SHADERed is the open-source, cross-platform project for creating and testing HLSL/GLSL shaders. While a version number of 1.2.3 may not seem like a big update, some notable additions can be found within this new SHADERed release...

POCL 1.4 Released For Advancing OpenCL On CPUs - Now Supports LLVM 9.0

Phoronix - Mon, 10/14/2019 - 18:49
Version 1.4 has been released of POCL, the "Portable Computing Language" implementation that allows for a portable OpenCL implementation to be executed on CPUs as well as optionally targeting other accelerators via HSA or even CUDA devices...

Vulkan 1.1.125 Released With SPIR-V 1.4 Support

Phoronix - Mon, 10/14/2019 - 18:37
Succeeding Vulkan 1.1.124 one week later is now Vulkan 1.1.125 with a lone new extension...

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