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      Google Chrome Begins Rollout Of New "Maglev" Mid-Tier Compiler

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 4 June, 2023

    With Chrome 114 is the start of Google beginning to roll-out Maglev as their new mid-tier compiler for further enhancing the JavaScript browser performance...
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      Experimental Patches For Rust-Written Linux Network Drivers

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 4 June, 2023

    A new set of patches this weekend begin laying the groundwork for Rust abstractions for Linux network device drivers so that Rust code can be used for constructing new network device drivers. The patches also include a dummy Rust network driver...
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      AMD Has Open-Source Ryzen AI Demo Code - But Only For Windows

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 3 June, 2023

    One of the most interesting aspects of the new AMD Ryzen 7040 series laptop processors is the new "Ryzen AI" capabilities with the new XDNA AI engine capabilities built into the SoC, leveraging IP from their Xilinx acquisition. Linux support details remain scarce but at least one of their (Windows) demos for showcasing Ryzen AI is open-source...
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      AMD Graphics Driver In Linux 6.5 Improves Power Management, Adds CP Shadow Buffer

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 3 June, 2023

    On Friday a big set of patches affecting the AMDGPU/Radeon/AMDKFD kernel drivers were submitted for DRM-Next to queue until the Linux 6.5 kernel merge window opens in the coming weeks. A lot of new feature code is part of this pull for benefiting new hardware, continuing to refine AMD GPU power management under Linux, and more...
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      Intel Continues Finalizing UEFI Unaccepted Memory Support For Linux

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 3 June, 2023

    With Intel TDX and AMD SEV-SNP for better securing virtual machines on the mainline Linux kernel, memory is accepted/initialized immediately at boot time by the VMs although the capability exists to have "unaccepted memory" where that memory is only dealt with by the VMs later on or on an as-needed basis. For two years now Intel engineers have been working on this unaccepted memory support and this week posted their thirteenth iteration of these fundamental Linux kernel patches...
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      Portable Computing Language 4.0 Adds Intel Level Zero API Driver

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 3 June, 2023

    The Portable Computing Language "PoCL" began as an open-source CPU-based OpenCL implementation that has become quite a comprehensive implementation over the years. But in leveraging the LLVM/Clang compiler stack, over time PoCL has grown beyond just a CPU implementation to also support OpenCL execution on NVIDIA GPUs, AMD HSA-capable GPUs, and more. The latest now coming with PoCL 4.0 is support for Intel Level Zero execution for running this OpenCL implementation over Intel Arc Graphics GPUs...
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      Serpent OS Shines New Light On Solus Partnership, Pushing More D Language Code

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 3 June, 2023

    Serpent OS started out as a new Linux distribution started by Ikey Doherty, the same developer that rose to fame for starting the Solus Linux distribution prior to a hiatus. Serpent OS was getting off the ground when the surprise full-circle announcement came in April that Solus Linux would build off Serpent OS...
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      KDE Plasma 6.0 Stability "Improving Daily"

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 3 June, 2023

    KDE developer Nate Graham began his weekly development recap by noting that Plasma 6.0 development continues and its stability is improving daily as well as seeing new features...
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      AMDVLK vs. Mesa RADV Radeon Vulkan Driver Performance On Linux

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 2 June, 2023

    Kicking off a number of interesting articles over the week ahead for the Phoronix 19th birthday week is a fresh look at how AMD's official open-source Linux Vulkan driver "AMDVLK" compares to Mesa's RADV Vulkan driver that tends to be more popular with Linux gamers and is the driver backed by Valve, Red Hat, and other stakeholders.