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More AMD Zen 5 Tuning/Optimizations Merged For The GCC 15 Compiler

Phoronix - Wed, 09/04/2024 - 22:30
Following yesterday's initial tuning of the "znver5" target for the AMD Zen 5 CPUs with the GCC 15 compiler, several more rounds of compiler tuning/optimizations were merged for benefiting the Ryzen AI 300 series, Ryzen 9000 series desktops, and upcoming EPYC Turin processors...

Linux Patches Enable Partially-Working, Snapdragon-Powered Microsoft Surface Pro 9 5G

Phoronix - Wed, 09/04/2024 - 20:59
While using the older Qualcomm Snapdragon 8xc Gen 3 (SC8280XP) SoC and not the exciting Snapdragon X1 Elite, Linux kernel patches were posted this week for enabling the Microsoft Surface Pro 9 5G to boot with the mainline kernel...

Mozilla Is Interested In A Rust JPEG-XL Decoder For Firefox & Google Might Develop It

Phoronix - Wed, 09/04/2024 - 18:56
Mozilla is interested in a Rust-written JPEG-XL image decoder for its memory safety characteristics compared to the existing C++ code they rely on for JPEG-XL image support in Firefox. While Google previously removed JPEG-XL support from Chrome/Chromium, it may be Google that comes to the rescue and writes a Rust-based JPEG-XL image decoder that can then be shipped by Firefox...

Linux Patches Posted For RAID0 Atomic Write Support

Phoronix - Wed, 09/04/2024 - 18:45
Linux 6.11 introduces block atomic write support including for NVMe and SCSI devices. With a new set of patches posted this week, atomic write support is wired up for the RAID0 MD code...

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