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Raspberry Pi V3D Graphics Driver Preps For Super Pages To Boost Performance

Phoronix - Mon, 03/11/2024 - 18:58
Igalia continues maintaining the Broadcom V3D open-source graphics driver code that is used by the Raspberry Pi single board computers. With a new patch series posted today for the V3D DRM driver, support for Super Pages is enabled to help with enhancing the graphics performance. In many benchmarks having Super Pages can enhance the performance by a few percent but in some extreme cases can be 19~42% faster...

x86/cpu Change For Linux 6.9 Slightly Eases Future AMD Zen CPU Enablement

Phoronix - Mon, 03/11/2024 - 18:44
A number of x86-related pull requests were already submitted today for kicking off the new Linux 6.9 merge window. With the x86/cpu pull for this new kernel cycle there is just one patch and it's for slightly easing future AMD Zen processor enablement under Linux...

Ncdu – A Powerful NCurses-Based Disk Usage Analyzer for Linux

Tecmint - Mon, 03/11/2024 - 13:00
The post Ncdu – A Powerful NCurses-Based Disk Usage Analyzer for Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

ncdu (NCurses Disk Usage) is a command-line version of the popular ‘du command, which is based on ncurses and offers the fastest way to analyze

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Linux 6.8 Released As Stable With New Intel Xe Graphics Driver

Phoronix - Mon, 03/11/2024 - 05:23
Linus Torvalds has gone ahead and released Linux 6.8 as stable today rather than drawing this cycle into overtime...

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