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Rockchip Driver Will Be Able To Drive 4K @ 60Hz HDMI Displays With Linux 6.12

Phoronix - Fri, 08/16/2024 - 18:13
Sent out today was the latest round of DRM-Misc-Next patches to DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 6.12 merge window opening up in mid-September. For those using ARM single board computers with a Rockchip SoC and have been struggling for 4K support over HDMI, the Rockchip updates in Linux 6.12 should excite you...

Preemption Support Being Tackled For Adreno 700 Series With Linux MSM DRM Driver

Phoronix - Fri, 08/16/2024 - 18:05
For improving the open-source graphics driver support for Qualcomm Adreno 700 series hardware such as what's found in the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 and other SoCs, preemption support is finally being tackled...

How to Transfer Files (Local and Remote) in Linux

Tecmint - Fri, 08/16/2024 - 13:38
The post How to Transfer Files (Local and Remote) in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Transferring files in Linux is a common task that every system administrator should know, especially when transferring files between local

The post How to Transfer Files (Local and Remote) in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

Red Hat Developing Ramalama To "Make AI Boring" By Offering Great AI Simplicity & Ease Of Use

Phoronix - Fri, 08/16/2024 - 00:55
Red Hat engineers have been developing Ramalama as a new open-source project that hopes to "make AI boring" by this inferencing tool striving for simplicity so users can quickly and easily deploy AI workloads without much fuss...

Quantifying The AVX-512 Performance Impact With AMD Zen 5 - Ryzen 9 9950X Benchmarks

Phoronix - Thu, 08/15/2024 - 21:00
With the AMD Ryzen 9 9900X and Ryzen 9 9950X Linux review out of the way yesterday, today's benchmarking of the Ryzen 9000 series is looking closely at the AVX-512 performance impact. With the Ryzen 9000 series the Zen 5 cores have a full 512-bit data-path compared to the "double pumped" 256-bit data path found in the Zen 4 processors as well as the Strix Point SKUs. In this article is an AVX-512 enabled versus disabled comparison for not only the Ryzen 9 9950X but also the prior generation Ryzen 9 7950X and looking too at the CPU power use, thermals, and peak frequency when engaging a variety of AVX-512 workloads.

AmpereOne Performance In The Cloud With Oracle Cloud A2

Phoronix - Thu, 08/15/2024 - 19:00
After talking about AmpereOne for the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure since last year, earlier this month Oracle finally announced general availability on their OCI Ampere A2 instances for tapping into these latest-generation Ampere Computing AArch64 server processors in the public cloud. Here's a brief look at the OCI Ampere A2 performance with AmpereOne compared to their prior A1 instances powered by Ampere Altra.

AMD Implementing Process Isolation Support For Their GPU/Accelerator Driver

Phoronix - Thu, 08/15/2024 - 18:20
A set of patches posted today on the AMD graphics driver mailing list begin implementing support for process isolation within the AMDGPU kernel graphics driver...

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