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GNOME Shell & Mutter Complete Their Migration Away From GTK3

Phoronix - Sat, 03/04/2023 - 04:52
The GNOME Shell and the Mutter compositor have completed their migration off GTK3...

AMD Preparing "openSIL" For Open-Source Silicon Initialization With Coreboot

Phoronix - Fri, 03/03/2023 - 20:12
If better open-source AMD Coreboot support was on your bingo card for years but long thought to be a lofty dream, get ready to celebrate... AMD dropped a juicy tid-bit of information to be announced next month with "openSIL" as it concerns open-source AMD x86 silicon initialization library, complete with AMD Coreboot support...

Small I/O Performance Boost Coming For Intel Ice Lake & Sapphire Rapids Servers

Phoronix - Fri, 03/03/2023 - 19:24
There should be "slight improvements for I/O performance" coming to Intel Xeon Scalable Ice Lake and Sapphire Rapids servers on a future kernel release with a patch having surfaced to remove a check that led to these newer processors not seeing HWP I/O boosting enabled...

Zstd Gets A Few Fixes For Linux 6.3 While The Big Update Delayed To v6.4

Phoronix - Fri, 03/03/2023 - 19:14
Merged last cycle was a big Zstd update for Linux 6.2 that took the kernel's Zstandard compression/decompression implementation to match that of upstream v1.5 after being stuck in the v1.4 series for more than a year. Following that, Zstd 1.5.4 was released last month. The hope was Zstd 1.5.4 would quickly follow into the mainline kernel while that is now delayed to Linux 6.4 and for the 6.3 kernel cycle seeing just a few fixes...

RISC-V Auto-Vectorization Support For The GCC Compiler Started

Phoronix - Fri, 03/03/2023 - 19:01
A set of patches sent out this morning lay out the initial foundation for RISC-V auto-vectorization support within the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC)...

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