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NVIDIA R565 Linux Driver Beta Brings Improvements For Wayland, DMA-BUF & VKD3D

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 October, 2024

The first NVIDIA R565 series Linux driver beta was released this morning in the form of the NVIDIA 565.57.01 driver release...

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Intel Preps GCC Compiler For New AMX & ISA Features Ahead Of Diamond Rapids

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 October, 2024

Intel's compiler engineers today posted a number of feature patches for the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) for enabling new ISA features to be found with next-generation Xeon "Diamond Rapids" processors. Excitingly a number of new Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX) features are coming with next-gen Intel Xeon...

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Intel Compute Runtime 24.39.31294.12 Fixes Lunar Lake OpenCL, Disables Ice Lake & Older

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 October, 2024

Intel Compute Runtime 24.39.31294.12 was released on Monday as the newest update to this open-source Intel integrated/discrete graphics compute stack for providing OpenCL and oneAPI Level Zero support for their hardware on Windows and Linux...

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Suggestion Raised For Using PGO + LLVM BOLT To Optimize More Fedora Packages

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 October, 2024

Outside of the likes of the Arch Linux based CachyOS and Intel's Clear Linux there aren't too many distributions that widely rely on aggressive compiler optimizations in the name of bettering the system performance. A suggestion was raised recently though for Fedora to use profile-guided optimizations (PGO) and post-link optimizations with the likes of LLVM BOLT for more packages, but at this stage it's not clear if such a shift in Fedora package optimizations will actually materialize...

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Wasmer 5.0-rc1 Adds Experimental Support For WASM, Interpreter Mode Support

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 October, 2024

For those interested in the prospects of WebAssembly for being able to write "universal apps" that can run anywhere, Wasmer as one of the leading WASM runtimes is closing in on its v5.0 feature release...

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SysVinit 3.11 Released With An "Important Feature" At Long Last

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 October, 2024

For those still managing to avoid systemd use on Linux systems and preferring SysVinit as their init system of choice, SysVinit 3.11 is out today with a new "important feature" addition...

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SiFive HiFive Premier P550 RISC-V Development Board Update

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21 October, 2024

Earlier this year SiFive announced the HiFive Premier P550 RISC-V development board with plans for shipping in July. That timeframe for shipping since passed but SiFive today issued a new update on their RISC-V development board...

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Intel Core Ultra 7 256V Lunar Lake With ASUS Zenbook Performing Better After New Linux Patch

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21 October, 2024

On Sunday there was a new patch posted by an Intel Linux engineer to boost the Lunar Lake Linux performance out-of-the-box for ASUS laptops by adjusting the new ASUS Intelligent Performance Technology "AIPT" feature so that Linux follows the same behavior as Windows 11. My initial testing of this ASUS AIPT patch has indeed shown the Core Ultra 7 256V "Lunar Lake" yielding much better performance with this patch applied.

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AMD Posts Linux Patches For EPYC To Further Enhance Performance-Per-Watt By Default

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21 October, 2024

Making for an exciting Monday morning, AMD Linux engineers have kicked off the new week with a patch series introducing an exciting and long-awaited change: using the AMD P-State CPU frequency scaling driver by default for EPYC server platforms moving forward rather than the ACPI CPUFreq driver...