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New AMDGPU Firmware Published For Upcoming Radeon GPUs

Phoronix - Wed, 07/26/2023 - 18:36
There's been talk of new Radeon RX 7000 series graphics cards this quarter and adding some weight to that is AMD publishing several new firmware files for different intellectual property blocks of IP versions previously not seeing firmware binaries in the linux-firmware.git repository...

Unified LTO Bitcode Front-End Comes Together For LLVM

Phoronix - Wed, 07/26/2023 - 18:17
Thanks to work carried out by Sony engineers and then offered for upstream, over the past few weeks support for a unified LTO bitcode front-end has materialized within the LLVM codebase...

Canonical Rolls Out Real-Time Ubuntu Optimized For Intel Core CPUs

Phoronix - Wed, 07/26/2023 - 17:50
For a few years now Canonical has partnered with Intel to offer Ubuntu images optimized for their hardware like with IoT initiatives while the latest now are new Ubuntu real-time images optimized for Intel Core usage...

5 Ways to Empty or Delete a Large File Content in Linux

Tecmint - Wed, 07/26/2023 - 13:31
The post 5 Ways to Empty or Delete a Large File Content in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Occasionally, while dealing with files in a Linux terminal, you may want to clear the content of a file without necessarily opening it using any

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AMD Linux Graphics No Longer Unusable For Blender Developers: 251 To 9 Seconds Speed-Up

Phoronix - Wed, 07/26/2023 - 02:45
Two weeks ago a bug report was opened for Mesa that when using Radeon RX 7900 XT or Radeon Pro WX 9100 graphics, Blender's Eevee shader node trees are unusably slow. A fix has now been merged in reducing that shader compilation time from around 251 seconds to now getting done in just about 9 seconds...

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