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      Mesa 23.1 RADV Change Leads To ~60% Smaller Single File Disk Cache

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11 April, 2023

    For those making use of Mesa's single-file on-disk shader cache, with the upcoming Mesa 23.1 release there will be increased space savings with the Radeon Vulkan (RADV) driver...
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      Intel Back To Working On Key Locker For Linux After Tackling Big Performance Issue

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11 April, 2023

    Going back to 2020 Intel's open-source engineers have been working on Key Locker support for Linux for that hardware feature introduced with Tigerlake CPUs. The Key Locker Linux support has been worked on now for nearly three years and finally after a hiatus a new version was sent out after they worked through a significant performance issue now being addressed with forthcoming firmware...
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      AMD Phoenix Support Progressing For Coreboot, New Google Chromebook Added

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11 April, 2023

    AMD and their partners continue working on bringing up Coreboot for the Ryzen Mobile 7040 Series "Phoenix" support for those very interesting forthcoming mobile processors with Zen 4 CPU cores and RDNA3 graphics...
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      Lucky 13? AMD Pensando Elba SoC Linux Enablement Revised The 13th Time

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11 April, 2023

    For more than one year and now up to thirteen rounds of patch review, the AMD Pensando Elba SoC support continues in its trek toward the mainline Linux kernel...
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      CentOS Reminds Everyone End-Of-Life Is Coming For CentOS Linux 7, CentOS Stream 8

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11 April, 2023

    The CentOS Project has sent out a reminder of end-of-life dates for CentOS Linux 7 and CentOS Stream 8...
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      FreeBSD 13.2 Released With WireGuard Driver, ASLR By Default For 64-bit Executables

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11 April, 2023

    Following some minor delays due to additional release candidates, FreeBSD 13.2-RELEASE is now officially available as this latest FreeBSD operating system update ahead of FreeBSD 14.0 debuting this summer...
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      Rosenzweig Steps Down As Open-Source Arm Mali "Panfrost" Driver Maintainer

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10 April, 2023

    Alyssa Rosenzweig who has been leading the Panfrost open-source Arm Mali graphics driver reverse engineering effort the past half-decade is stepping down as maintainer of this driver as part of this also being her last day at Collabora...
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      NVIDIA Finally Working On A Linux Driver For Their 2017 SHIELD Controller

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10 April, 2023

    NVIDIA launched their SHIELD "Thunderstrike" gaming controller back in 2017 and now in 2023 they are working to upstream their HD driver support for it...
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      Linux Cluster-Aware Scheduling Being Extended To AMD Processors

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10 April, 2023

    Back in 2021 saw work on CPU cluster-aware scheduling by HiSilicon engineers for Arm processors as well as Intel engineers with a focus on their Jacobsville platform being comprised of clusters of Atom cores. That x86 cluster-aware scheduling was enabled for capable Intel processors while now two years later is being extended for AMD processors...