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TikTok Owner Bytedance Goes Big On Open-Source Firmware

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9 March, 2023

TikTok owner Bytedance this week hosted their CloudFW Open System Firmware Symposium in Beijing where they celebrated the launch of CloudFW 2.0 as they implement Coreboot to replace UEFI...

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PipeWire 0.3.67 Fixes Stuttering For Some Bluetooth Devices

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9 March, 2023

PipeWire 0.3.67 is now available as the latest version of this now widely used server by the Linux desktop for managing audio and video streams as an alternative to PulseAudio and JACK on the audio side...

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Initial Batch Of Intel Graphics Driver Updates Queued For Linux 6.4

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9 March, 2023

While less than one week since the Linux 6.3-rc1 release, already the first batch of Intel (i915) kernel graphics driver updates has been sent to DRM-Next for queuing until the Linux 6.4 merge window kicks off in two months...

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Linux Patch Updated For Rumble Support On Latest Microsoft Xbox Controllers

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9 March, 2023

Last year I wrote about a Google engineer working on rumble support for the latest Microsoft controllers in conjunction with Microsoft's Xbox team. That patch seemed to have fallen through the woodwork but has been updated and sent out in "v2" form this week for allowing Linux gamers to enjoy rumble functionality with these latest Microsoft controllers...

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Ruby Lands New "RJIT" Just-In-Time Compiler

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9 March, 2023

Back in 2021 Ruby merged the YJIT just-in-time compiler that last year with Ruby 3.2 was deemed production grade. There's also been the MJIT compiler that relies upon an external C compiler. And now landing this week in Ruby is RJIT as the newest just-in-time effort...

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Open-Source AMD OpenGL Driver Drops Support For Smart Access Memory / ReBAR

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 8 March, 2023

Since late 2020 there had been work by AMD Linux engineers on adding Smart Access Memory (Resizable BAR) support to RadeonSI as the Gallium3D OpenGL driver and improved since that point in the name of performance. However, for this OpenGL driver now they've come to realize the benefits haven't necessarily panned out and the developers went ahead and disabled this SAM/ReBAR support followed by removing the support from this driver...

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Tuned AMD Zen 4 Scheduler Model Lands In LLVM 17 Compiler

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 8 March, 2023

Back in December initial AMD Zen 4 "znver4" support was merged for the LLVM/Clang 16 compiler. While the "-march=znver4" targeting at least flips on the newly-added AVX-512 instructions with these AMD processors, it was re-using the existing scheduler model from Zen 3. Finally today a tuned Zen 4 scheduler model has landed for what will be found in the LLVM 17 compiler later this year...

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Mesa 22.3.7 Released To End Out The Series

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 8 March, 2023

Mesa 22.3.7 has been released as the last planned point release for that driver Q4'2022 driver series...

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Crucial 2 x 16GB DDR5-5200 / DDR5-5600

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 8 March, 2023

Micron recently sent over their latest Crucial 2 x 16GB DDR5-5200 and DDR5-5600 memory kits for testing with these low cost options for running with the latest Intel Alder Lake / Raptor Lake and AMD Ryzen 7000 series processors. Here's a look at how these affordable DDR5 memory options are performing and a look at the Linux workloads that can benefit from higher frequency memory.