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Linux Developers Still Working To Retire Intel Itanium/IA-64 Support

Phoronix - Fri, 05/12/2023 - 23:00
Back in February was a patch series proposed retiring the Intel Itanium (IA-64) architecture support from the Linux kernel. That removal has yet to take place in Linux Git but it's still being talked about and user-space developers are also eager as it would mean being able to clear out Itanium user-space code too...

Fwupd 1.8.15 Released With Support For Updating More Device Firmware Under Linux

Phoronix - Fri, 05/12/2023 - 20:49
LVFS/Fwupd lead developer Richard Hughes of Red Hat today released Fwupd 1.8.15 with fixes and allowing some additional devices to now enjoy firmware updating under Linux...

Intel oneAPI's Embree 4.1 Brings Its Ray-Tracing Library To 64-bit ARM

Phoronix - Fri, 05/12/2023 - 20:26
One of the fascinating elements of Intel's oneAPI software effort is how open they have been not to just supporting GPUs from multiple vendors or AMD CPUs too, but cross-CPU architecture support. Many Intel oneAPI components end up working on 64-bit ARM (AArch64) and even IBM POWER. The latest Intel software package seeing 64-bit ARM Linux support is their Embree ray-tracing kernels...

KDE Plasma Wayland Session Sees More Fixes Ahead Of Plasma 6.0

Phoronix - Fri, 05/12/2023 - 20:10
While the past week saw many KDE developers get together for a Plasma 6.0 development sprint in Bavaria, the development pace for code changes during this time period didn't lighten up. There still was a lot of code being committed for continuing to advance this open-source desktop environment...

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