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      Linux 6.4 Closes The Door On Intel Thunder Bay

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 May, 2023

    While Intel Thunder Bay sparked rumors years ago as potentially being a mix of Intel x86 cores and Movidius VPU cores, although the Linux patches put it as ARM cores paired with the Movidius VPU, Thunder Bay is no more. As I wrote back in March, Intel Linux engineers have acknowledged Thunder Bay is cancelled and there are no end-customers/users so they are going ahead and removing the Linux support...
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      LoongArch With Linux 6.4 Lands Optimizations, New Functionality

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 May, 2023

    Chinese tech company Loongson continues working on improving the upstream Linux kernel support for their MIPS-derived, RISC-V-inspired domestic CPU architecture. With the in-development Linux 6.4 kernel is another batch of optimizations and implementing more kernel functionality for the LoongArch CPU architecture...
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      Experimental AV2 Support Added To AVIF Image Encoder

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 May, 2023

    The reference AVIF image encoder for the AV1 Image File Format has added experimental support for AV2, the next-generation codec that remains in development by the Alliance for Open Media...
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      dav1d 1.2 Released With More SIMD Optimizations

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 May, 2023

    Dav1d as the open-source AV1 video decoder developed as part of the VideoLAN project is out with a new minor feature release...
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      Intel Posts New Linux Patches For Cluster Scheduling With Hybrid CPUs

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

    A new set of patches were posted today to enable cluster scheduling for x86 hybrid CPUs. In turn thos latest attempt at cluster scheduling for modern Core CPUs of Alder Lake and newer is yielding some small performance benefits over the current code...
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      LLVM Clang Now Exposes -std=c++23 Rather Than -std=c++2b

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

    Merged today to LLVM 17 Git is now recognizing -std=c++23 rather than just -std=c++2b for the Clang compiler now that C++23 has been deemed technically complete...
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      Intel's One Line Of Linux Code For Speeding-Up Sapphire Rapids On Ubuntu

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

    Recently I noticed out-of-the-box on Ubuntu Linux the performance of Intel Xeon Scalable "Sapphire Rapids" processors was much improved for some workloads compared to tests done just weeks ago on the same Sapphire Rapids server. It ended up being an issue coming full-circle and ultimately boils down to one line of code added within the Linux kernel.
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      Open 3D Engine 23.05 Released With Many New Features

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

    It's been just under two years since Amazon's Lumberyard game engine was spun into the Open 3D Engine and the Open 3D Foundation established under the Linux Foundation. Today the project is celebrating its newest open-source game engine update with Open 3D Engine 23.05...
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      X.Org Foundation To Become Part Of The SFC

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

    X.Org members have approved of the X.Org Foundation letting the Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) become its fiscal sponsor...