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GNU Assembler Starts Getting Ready For Intel AVX10.1

Phoronix - Thu, 09/14/2023 - 18:32
Back in July Intel announced AVX10 as the future of AVX-512 and how they ultimately plan to support more Advanced Vector Extensions capabilities on both future P and E cores. Since then they've begun making preparations to the open-source compiler toolchains around enabling AVX10...

AMD To Enable Seamless Boot Across Modern Radeon Graphics Hardware

Phoronix - Thu, 09/14/2023 - 18:17
The past two years AMD's AMDGPU Linux kernel driver has supported Seamless Boot on Van Gogh APUs notably used by Valve's Steam Deck. AMD Seamless Boot is for a seamless or flicker-free boot experience by aiming to avoid redundant/unnecessary mode-sets by the driver. After a few years being limited in its scope of supported hardware, new patches are aiming to open up Seamless Boot usage to more AMD Radeon graphics hardware...

Intel IFS Driver Prepares For Granite Rapids & Sierra Forest

Phoronix - Thu, 09/14/2023 - 18:03
One of the nifty new features with Intel Xeon Scalable "Sapphire Rapids" processors not talked about much is the In-Field Scan (IFS) functionality for allowing various tests to be carried out prior to deploy the new processors or over time in the data center for trying to spot any silicon-level issues. IFS aims to uncover any processor issues not caught by ECC, parity checks, RAS, or other safeguards when new CPUs reach the data center or as they age over time...

PipeWire 0.3.80 Released With Vulkan DMA-BUF Support, Tag Param

Phoronix - Thu, 09/14/2023 - 17:29
Red Hat multimedia expert Wim Taymans has released PipeWire 0.3.80 as the newest version of this open-source solution for efficiently handling video and audio streams on the Linux desktop...

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