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Mesa 23.1 RADV Change Leads To ~60% Smaller Single File Disk Cache

Phoronix - Tue, 04/11/2023 - 23:28
For those making use of Mesa's single-file on-disk shader cache, with the upcoming Mesa 23.1 release there will be increased space savings with the Radeon Vulkan (RADV) driver...

Intel Back To Working On Key Locker For Linux After Tackling Big Performance Issue

Phoronix - Tue, 04/11/2023 - 20:30
Going back to 2020 Intel's open-source engineers have been working on Key Locker support for Linux for that hardware feature introduced with Tigerlake CPUs. The Key Locker Linux support has been worked on now for nearly three years and finally after a hiatus a new version was sent out after they worked through a significant performance issue now being addressed with forthcoming firmware...

AMD Phoenix Support Progressing For Coreboot, New Google Chromebook Added

Phoronix - Tue, 04/11/2023 - 19:00
AMD and their partners continue working on bringing up Coreboot for the Ryzen Mobile 7040 Series "Phoenix" support for those very interesting forthcoming mobile processors with Zen 4 CPU cores and RDNA3 graphics...

Lucky 13? AMD Pensando Elba SoC Linux Enablement Revised The 13th Time

Phoronix - Tue, 04/11/2023 - 18:20
For more than one year and now up to thirteen rounds of patch review, the AMD Pensando Elba SoC support continues in its trek toward the mainline Linux kernel...

CentOS Reminds Everyone End-Of-Life Is Coming For CentOS Linux 7, CentOS Stream 8

Phoronix - Tue, 04/11/2023 - 18:02
The CentOS Project has sent out a reminder of end-of-life dates for CentOS Linux 7 and CentOS Stream 8...

FreeBSD 13.2 Released With WireGuard Driver, ASLR By Default For 64-bit Executables

Phoronix - Tue, 04/11/2023 - 17:43
Following some minor delays due to additional release candidates, FreeBSD 13.2-RELEASE is now officially available as this latest FreeBSD operating system update ahead of FreeBSD 14.0 debuting this summer...

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