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LLVM Makes Progress On Using ClangIR To Compile GPU Kernels

Phoronix - Wed, 09/11/2024 - 18:04
ClangIR is a new IR for LLVM's Clang compiler built atop MLIR. Thanks to this year's Google Summer of Code, there has been progress on being able to compile GPU kernels using ClangIR as another improvement for heterogeneous programming with this open-source compiler stack...

Torvalds Inclined To Release Linux 6.11 This Coming Sunday

Phoronix - Wed, 09/11/2024 - 17:57
With this past weekend's release of Linux 6.11-rc7, the kernel changes for the week were larger than prior RCs and Torvalds was a bit hesitant on releasing v6.11 this coming Sunday due to the upcoming that takes place next week in Vienna, Austria. But after a bit of time and feedback from other kernel developers, Torvalds is now more inclined to release Linux 6.11 this coming Sunday rather than dragging it out for an extra week...

Kernel Shader Variants Merged For Mesa's Rusticl OpenCL Driver

Phoronix - Wed, 09/11/2024 - 17:46
The latest Rust-written OpenCL driver "Rusticl" work by Red Hat engineer Karol Herbst is support for shader variants and introducing an optimized kernel variant...

wolfSSL "Immediately Retired" From Fedora Linux For Failing To Follow Packaging Rules

Phoronix - Wed, 09/11/2024 - 08:11
WolfSSL is an embedded SSl/TLS library designed for a range of use-cases and available as open-source under the GNU GPLv2. WolfSSL was recently packaged and added to Fedora Linux since Netatalk began building against wolfSSL and in the longer-term plans to require its use. So the Fedora packager of Netatalk went ahead with packaging up wolfSSL. But this in turn has led to issues and as of today is now being "immediately retired from Fedora."..

CentOS Stream 10 Showing Nice Performance Uplift In Early Benchmarks On AmpereOne

Phoronix - Wed, 09/11/2024 - 04:00
As part of the ongoing AmpereOne testing at Phoronix with the 192-core AmpereOne A192-32X flagship processor, I've been working on several different Linux distribution benchmarks with this Supermicro AmpereOne server. That comparison in full should be published next week while worth highlighting on its own are some of the gains seen with the in-development CentOS Stream 10 that serves as the upstream to what will be Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10. There are some nice performance gains seen on AArch64 with CentOS Stream 10 compared to CentOS Stream 9.

Intel CPU Microcode 20240910 Fixes Two Security Issues, Various Functional Issues

Phoronix - Wed, 09/11/2024 - 02:25
Intel today as part of their "Patch Tuesday" released new CPU microcode for recent generation Core and Xeon processors. Two security updates were made along with fixing a handful of functional issues...

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