Open-source News

Intel Makes One Line Tweak To GCC To Fix A "Random Performance Penalty"

Phoronix - Wed, 05/29/2024 - 18:30
Coming up on my radar today is a commit made to the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) for adjusting the loop alignment with Intel's generic tuning path. In turn this should address "some random performance penalty in benchmarks" with coping better around cache lines...

Intel's Sub-NUMA Clustering Support Linux Patches Spun A 19th Time

Phoronix - Wed, 05/29/2024 - 18:22
The past year there's been a big Linux kernel patch series in the work by Intel to improve Sub-NUMA Clustering "SNC" support so it behaves well with Intel Resource Director Technology (RDT) on modern Intel hardware. Hopefully that work will soon be ready for mainlining in the Linux kernel while this week brought the 19th revision to those patches...

Flowblade 2.16 Open-Source Video Editor Released

Phoronix - Wed, 05/29/2024 - 18:15
Flowblade 2.16 is out today as the newest version of this open-source non-linear video editor...

SVT-AV1 2.1 Released With Yet More Performance Improvements

Phoronix - Wed, 05/29/2024 - 08:34
SVT-AV1 that started out as an open-source AV1 video encoder at Intel and more recently an an Alliance of Open Media project quietly released SVT-AV1 v2.1 last week. With this new SVT-AV1 release are yet more performance optimizations and tuning...

Xe2 Ray-Tracing & More Intel Lunar Lake Enabling Land In Mesa 24.2

Phoronix - Wed, 05/29/2024 - 04:34
Intel's open-source Linux graphics driver engineers continue to be quite busy preparing their Xe kernel driver and Mesa user-space ANV Vulkan / Iris Gallium3D driver for upcoming Lunar Lake processors. Merged today for Mesa 24.2-devel is more Lunar Lake platform enablement work plus early support for ray-tracing with the integrated Xe2 graphics. However, more work is still needed before this Lunar Lake / Xe2 support will be ready for end-users on the Linux desktop...

Microsoft Starts Preparing Its Open-Source DirectX Shader Compiler For "HLSL 202x"

Phoronix - Wed, 05/29/2024 - 02:33
Microsoft's open-source DirectX Shader Compiler that is open-source and derived from the LLVM/Clang compiler infrastructure is out with a significant new release as it begins preparing for "HLSL 202x" as a big leap for the High-Level Shader Language...

Chrome 127 Should Provide PipeWire Camera Capture Support

Phoronix - Wed, 05/29/2024 - 02:18
The Google Chrome/Chromium 127 web browser release should finally provide support for PipeWire camera capturing support!..

Crucial Pro DDR5-6000 32GB Memory Kit

Phoronix - Wed, 05/29/2024 - 02:05
Crucial last week announced the launch of their newest Crucial DDR5 Pro Memory: Overclocking (OC) Edition in white heatspreader form. Crucial recently sent over a pair of these 2 x 16GB Crucial Pro DDR5-6000 UDIMM memory kits that we've been putting through the paces with Intel Core i9 14900K and AMD Ryzen 9 7950X systems. These new Crucial Pro DIMMs have been working out very well and align with the great quality we've long enjoyed from Crucial/Micron.

Linux cpupower Tool Fix Coming For AMD Zen 5 CPUs

Phoronix - Wed, 05/29/2024 - 00:26
Sent out today as a fix for the Linux kernel's in-tree "cpupower" utility is properly handling P-State frequency reporting for upcoming AMD Zen 5 processors...

AlmaLinux 8.10 Released With Support Re-Enabled For Some Older Hardware

Phoronix - Tue, 05/28/2024 - 22:06
For those continuing to rely on the Enterprise Linux 8 series, AlmaLinux 8.10 has made its stable debut this morning as the newest version of this community-oriented operating system derived from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.10...

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