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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...

Raspberry Pi Bugs Currently Make Up Half Of The Fedora 41 Blocker Bugs

Phoronix - Wed, 09/04/2024 - 18:34
There are six accepted blocker bugs so far for the Fedora 41 Beta and three of them all pertain to Raspberry Pi issues...

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