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AMD OpenSIL Will Be Talked About Later This Month At The 2023 OCP Global Summit

Phoronix - Fri, 10/06/2023 - 22:27
Earlier this year at the OCP Regional Summit in Prague AMD first presented openSIL as their new open-source CPU silicon initialization effort that can integrate with Coreboot and open-source boot firmware solutions. AMD openSIL is currently being prototyped on Genoa platforms but in a few years will eventually replace AGESA on both client and server processors. Later this month at the OCP Global Summit, there will be a new presentation on AMD openSIL...

LLVM Merges Initial Support For OpenMP Kernel Language

Phoronix - Fri, 10/06/2023 - 22:00
Merged to LLVM 18 Git yesterday was the initial support for the OpenMP kernel language, an effort around having performance portable GPU codes as an alternative to the likes of the proprietary CUDA...

FEX-Emu 2310 Released With Performance Optimizations, WOW64 Wine Frontend

Phoronix - Fri, 10/06/2023 - 20:26
A new version of FEX-Emu has been released, the open-source project aiming to be "the greatest x86/x86_64 emulator on Linux" that includes the ability to run Steam and Steam Play Windows games on AArch64 Linux systems...

Fwupd 1.9.6 Brings Linux Firmware Updating For AMD Graphics Cards

Phoronix - Fri, 10/06/2023 - 18:45
A new release of Fwupd 1.9.6 is out today and it's notable in that AMD graphics cards can now enjoy firmware upgrades under Linux. This AMD GPU firmware updating works with Navi 3x GPUs and future hardware on recent versions of the Linux kernel...

PipeWire 1.0 RC Available With Jackdbus By Default, Improved IRQ-Based Scheduling

Phoronix - Fri, 10/06/2023 - 18:29
PipeWire 0.3.81 was released today for what's being treated as the PipeWire 1.0 release candidate ahead of its stable release still comimg up this calendar year...

Incomplete Ponte Vecchio Support Being Dropped From Intel's i915 Linux Kernel Driver

Phoronix - Fri, 10/06/2023 - 18:18
Intel Linux graphics driver engineers are doing a bit of house keeping to the i915 DRM driver and removing some pre-production hardware bits as well as the incomplete Ponte Vecchio support...

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