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      Asahi AGX Mesa Driver Prepares For Compute Kernels On Apple Silicon

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 March, 2023

    The Asahi "AGX" Gallium3D driver providing open-source OpenGL driver support for Apple M1/M2 graphics hardware has seen preliminary work merged into Mesa 23.1 for supporting compute shaders/kernels...
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      AMD Continues Linux Upstreaming For Pensando Elba SoC

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 March, 2023

    Last year AMD acquired Pensando in part for adding DPUs to their portfolio from this young company that only exited its stealth mode in 2019. While sadly it's missed out on the Linux 6.3 cycle, AMD-Pensando engineers continue work on upstreaming support for their "Elba" SoC into the mainline Linux kernel...
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      LibreELEC 11 Released With GBM/V4L2 HDR Support On x86_64, More ARM Hardware

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 March, 2023

    LibreELEC 11 is out today as the newest version of this Linux distribution that is purpose-built for an HTPC-oriented experience powered by the recent Kodi 20 HTPC/PVR software...
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      Linux 6.3-rc1 Brings File-System Optimizations, HID-BPF, More Intel & AMD Features

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

    The merge window for Linux 6.3 is now over and Linus Torvalds just released Linux 6.3-rc1...
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      Linux 6.3 Drops Support For The Intel ICC Compiler

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

    On this last day of the Linux 6.3 kernel merge window, Linus Torvalds merged the patch dropping support for Intel (ICC) compiler support. Specifically this is Intel's long-standing ICC compiler now known as the "Intel C++ Compiler Classic" prior to its transition to being LLVM/Clang-based with the modern Intel DPC++ compiler...
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      Testing The First PCIe Gen 5.0 NVMe SSD On Linux Has Been Disappointing

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

    This past week saw the first two consumer PCIe 5.0 NVMe solid-state drives released to retail: the Gigabyte AORUS Gen5 10000 and the Inland TD510. I've been testing the Inland TD510 2TB Gen 5 NVMe SSD the past few days. While in simple I/O testing it can hit speeds almost up to 10,000 MB/s reads and writes, for more complex workloads it quickly dropped against popular PCIe Gen 4.0 NVMe SSD options. In my testing thus far of this first consumer Gen5 NVMe SSD it's left me far from impressed.
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      Latest System76 Intel-Powered Laptops Added To Coreboot

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

    Merged on Saturday to upstream Coreboot was support for some of the latest Intel Alderlake (and signs of Raptor Lake) powered laptops from Linux vendor System76...
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      Linux Landing Change To Allow STIBP When Using Legacy IBRS

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

    Ahead of the Linux 6.3-rc1 release later today, a set of "x86/urgent" patches were sent out Sunday morning that include the change to allow Single Threaded Indirect Branch Predictors (STIBP) to be used in the presence of legacy Indirect Branch Restricted Speculation (IBRS) for security reasons...
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      GNOME 44 Mutter Adds fractional_scale_v1 Wayland Support

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

    While GNOME 3.32 saw initial work on fractional scaling support for the GNOME Shell and Mutter compositor, the upcoming GNOME 44 release is bringing support for Wayland's fractional_scale_v1 protocol...