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AMD GFX9.4.4 CDNA Firmware Published, More GFX950 Changes Point To Being MI350

Phoronix - Wed, 11/27/2024 - 05:26
There are some new open-source/Linux details to note when it comes to the AMD accelerators in the Instinct "CDNA" land...

F2FS Brings Interesting "Device Aliasing" Feature To Linux 6.13 To Carve Out Partition

Phoronix - Wed, 11/27/2024 - 03:17
The Flash Friendly File-System (F2FS) updates were sent out on Monday for Linux 6.13 and include one very interesting new feature for this file-system: device aliasing as a means of being able to temporarily carve out a portion of the partition for other purposes...

Granular Power Savings Patches Posted For Common "uvcvideo" Linux Webcam Driver

Phoronix - Wed, 11/27/2024 - 01:24
Google engineer Ricardo Ribalda has proposed a set of patches for the common "uvcvideo" kernel driver that supports UVC-compliant web cameras and the like to provide granular power saving support...

Intel Xe2 Lunar Lake Graphics Compute / OpenCL Performance Looking Great

Phoronix - Tue, 11/26/2024 - 23:39
Now that Linux 6.12 has a fix for the Lunar Lake performance with the ASUS Zenbook I have been using for my Core Ultra 200V series Linux testing as well as there recently being an updated Intel Compute Runtime with Lunar Lake fixes, I have been working on some fresh Lunar Lake Xe2 graphics benchmarks using the very latest upstream open-source code. In today's article is exploring how the Xe2 Lunar Lake graphics is performing for OpenCL / GPU compute relative to the prior Meteor Lake Arc Graphics that were already a nice step-up over earlier Intel integrated graphics.

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