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      Setting Up Intel 4th Gen Xeon Scalable "Sapphire Rapids" For Accelerator Use

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15 January, 2023

    With Intel's 4th Gen Xeon Scalable "Sapphire Rapids" processors that launched this week, Intel is betting heavily on the integrated accelerators for offering them an advantage over competitors for modern hyperscaler tasks and other workloads able to take advantage of the In-Memory Analytics Accelerator (IAA), Data Streaming Accelerator (DSA), QuickAssist Technology (QAT), and the Dynamic Load Balancer (DLB). But what does the software landscape currently look like and what's needed to actually make use of these accelerators under Linux? Here is a brief how-to guide / overview for making use of the accelerators on your Linux server.
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      Linux 6.2-rc4 Released - "Bang In The Middle Of A Regular RC"

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15 January, 2023

    Due to Linus Torvalds traveling later in the day, he's released Linux 6.2-rc4 a half-day early as the latest weekly snapshot of Linux 6.2...
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      Removing Some Old Arm Drivers & Board/Machine Code To Lighten The Kernel By 154k Lines

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15 January, 2023

    The SoC tree's "for-next" branch has picked up a big set of patches that is set to lighten the kernel by 154k lines of code, documentation, and DeviceTree files in clearing out some old drivers and obsolete board/machine support...
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      Linux 6.3 To Support Making Use Of Intel's New LKGS Instruction (Part Of FRED)

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15 January, 2023

    As part of Intel's forthcoming Flexible Return and Event Delivery (FRED) specification is the new LKGS instruction for managing the state of the GS segment register in a more flexible manner. With Linux 6.3 the kernel will allow making use of the LKGS instruction where supported on future Intel CPUs...
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      Linux 6.3 Will Better Handle Missing AMD Radeon Firmware / Unsupported Hardware

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15 January, 2023

    Another batch of AMDGPU/AMDKFD feature code was submitted this week to DRM-Next as additional AMD Radeon kernel graphics driver changes slated for Linux 6.3...
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      Basic OpenGL ES Compute Shader Support Begins Working For The Apple GPU Linux Driver

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15 January, 2023

    The open-source developers working on developing the Rust-written Linux DRM kernel driver for Apple M1/M2 graphics as well as the Mesa AGX Gallium3D driver in user-space have now managed to successfully run a basic OpenGL ES 3.1 compute shader on the hardware with this open-source driver stack...
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      Cloud Hypervisor 29 Released With Better Live Migration, Combined MSHV+KVM Binaries

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15 January, 2023

    Cloud Hypervisor 29.0 has been released as the open-source virtualization hypervisor that was started by Intel but then began seeing support by the likes of Microsoft and Arm. Cloud Hypervisor was since spunoff to the Linux Foundation where it continues seeing more industry support by the likes of AMD and Ampere...