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Lenovo Legion Linux Driver Posted For Handling Power/Performance Settings

Phoronix - Wed, 12/18/2024 - 15:00
A patch posted on Tuesday for the Linux kernel would introduce new Lenovo Legion WMI driver options for supporting Lenovo Legion laptops as well as the Legion Go handheld gaming console to support different power/performance settings...

AOMP 20.0-1 GPU Compiler Rebased Against ROCm 6.3, Brings SPIR-V JIT Offloading

Phoronix - Wed, 12/18/2024 - 13:00
AOMP 20.0-1 was released on Tuesday as the newest version of this LLVM/Clang downstream focused on shipping the latest AMD patches around Radeon/Instinct OpenMP accelerator offload support...

Linux Patched For Unsafe Xen Behavior Around CPU Speculative Attack Protections

Phoronix - Wed, 12/18/2024 - 05:36
Merged today to the Linux kernel are fixes for two vulnerabilities with the Xen hypervisor. One of them concerns a malicious network backend being able to crash a guest after a suspend/resume cycle of a Linux guest. The other more pressing issue addressed is a Xen hypercall page being unsafe against speculative CPU attacks...

System76 Releases Updated AMD Ryzen Linux Laptop

Phoronix - Wed, 12/18/2024 - 03:05
System76 has been offering AMD-powered Linux laptops for a few years now and before rounding out 2024 they have announced the new Pangolin "Pang15" laptop with an updated SoC, 2K display with 16:10 screen ratio and 120Hz refresh rate, and other refinements to this all-aluminum build Linux laptop...

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