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GCC 15 Adds Option For Arm Guarded Control Stack "GCS" Code Generation

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15 November, 2024

GCC 15 feature development is soon wrapping up to focus on bug fixing before releasing GCC 15.1 as stable in the early months of 2025. One of the latest features to make it in the compiler codebase is code generation support around Arm Guarded Control Stack (GCS) functionality...

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Linux Patches Add Support For New "Phone Link" Hotkey On Latest ThinkPads

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15 November, 2024

Patches posted on Thursday for the Linux kernel add support for the newest hotkey being found on Lenovo ThinkPad laptops... The "Phone Link" hotkey for launching the Microsoft Phone Link software for linking your Android/iOS smartphone to your laptop. This hotkey can be adapted for similar purposes on Linux...

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SDL3 Improves Steam Controller Support, Now Enabled By Default

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15 November, 2024

A number of Steam Controller improvements have been merged for SDL, this widely-used hardware/software abstraction layer that is common to cross platform games. Among the latest Steam Controller improvements in SDL are enabling the support by default...

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Khronos SYCL Being Updated To Increase Appeal For HPC & Scientific Computing

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15 November, 2024

In addition to the release today of OpenMP 6.0 ahead of the SC24 supercomputing conference in Atlanta, over at The Khronos Group they have provided an update on upcoming SYCL improvements to benefit high performance computing (HPC) and scientific computing applications...

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OpenMP 6.0 Released With An Emphasis On Easier Parallel Programming

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 November, 2024

The OpenMP Architecture Review Board announced from SC24 that OpenMP 6.0 is now available as a major upgrade to the OpenMP specification for multi-process programming within C / C++ / Fortran. A big emphasis on OpenMP 6.0 is making it easier for developers to embrace...

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Upstream Linux Developers Take Aim At TUXEDO's Out-Of-Tree GPLv3 Drivers

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 November, 2024

A new patch series posted today to the Linux kernel mailing list would block kernel modules/drivers from TUXEDO Computers from accessing GPL-only symbols in the kernel...

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Supermicro H13SSL-N For AMD EPYC 9005 "Turin" 1P Servers

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 November, 2024

While it's difficult still finding Intel Xeon 6 "Granite Rapids" motherboards/servers widely available at Internet retailers/distributors, when it comes to the AMD EPYC 9005 "Turin" processors that launched just last month, there is better availability thanks in large part to leveraging the existing SP5 socket. For those wanting to assemble a single socket AMD EPYC 9005 series server, one of the readily available options in the retail channel is the Supermicro H13SSL-N motherboard.

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Enters Beta With Many New Features & Updates

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 November, 2024

The first public beta of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 (RHEL 10) was released on Wednesday with a wide variety of new/updated packages, new features, and other changes over RHEL 9...

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AMD 3D V-Cache Optimizer Driver To Be Merged For Linux 6.13

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 November, 2024

Last month AMD Linux engineers posted patches for a 3D V-Cache Optimizer driver for Linux that allows the user to communicate their cache vs. frequency preference depending upon workload and for the 3D V-Cache processors where some CCDs have the larger cache but not all. That driver is now ready for appearing in the upcoming Linux 6.13 kernel...