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Intel Mesa Driver Changes Land For Building On Non-x86 CPUs

Phoronix - Thu, 11/24/2022 - 04:00
A patch was merged today to Mesa 23.0 as part of the effort for building the Intel OpenGL and Vulkan Linux drivers for non-x86/x86_64 architectures. This is part of the ongoing effort to enable Intel discrete GPUs to eventually work on the likes of AArch64, POWER, and RISC-V systems...

Intel Posts Reworked Linux Patches To Improve Hybrid CPU + HT/SMT Kernel Behavior

Phoronix - Wed, 11/23/2022 - 22:30
Back in August an Intel engineer posted a patch series to help Linux on Intel hybrid CPUs with Hypr Threading. That work benefiting newer Alder Lake and Raptor Lake processors is around avoiding unnecessary migrations within SMT domains. Finally an updated version of that patch series has now been posted as this Intel hybrid improvement works its way toward the kernel...

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