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      Initial AVX10.1 Support Merged Into The GCC Compiler

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 August, 2023

    It was less than one month ago that Intel announced AVX10 as the successor to AVX-512. In that time Intel engineers have begun posting AVX10.1 enablement patches for GCC as well as beginning AVX10 discussions for the LLVM compiler stack. Overnight already the initial AVX10.1 enablement code has been merged into the GNU Compiler Collection...
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      Linux 6.6 Etnaviv Driver Working On More NXP i.MX8MP Hardware

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 August, 2023

    The reverse-engineered Etnaviv DRM driver for providing open-source graphics support for Vivante graphics IP has prepared a new set of improvements for the upcoming Linux 6.6 kernel cycle...
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      OBS Studio 30 Beta Brings Intel QSV On Linux, WHIP/WebRTC Output

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 August, 2023

    The first beta release of the forthcoming OBS Studio 30 screencasting software is now available for testing...
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      Mesa 23.1.6 Released With Many Graphics Driver Fixes

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16 August, 2023

    While waiting for the belated Mesa 23.2 to eventually surface, the Mesa 23.1 branch remains the latest stable series for this collection of open-source OpenGL/Gallium3D and Vulkan graphics drivers...
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      StarFive VisionFive 2 Quad-Core RISC-V Performance Benchmarks

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16 August, 2023

    SiFive's HiFive Unmatched development board was interesting when it began shipping in 2021 with 16GB of RAM and four U74-MC RISC-V cores along with one S7 core. But pricing was rather steep at $665 USD. Fast forward two years, the StarFive VisionFive 2 has begun to enjoy wide availability and for $100+ this RISC-V development board features a quad-core RISC-V processor via the StarFive JH7110 SoC with integrated GPU, up to 8GB of RAM, HDMI 2.0 output, dual Gigabit Ethernet, dual USB 3.0 ports, and more for around $100 USD. Here are some benchmarks of this most interesting RISC-V single board computer in the ~$100 space to be released yet.
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      CrossOver 23 Enables EA App On Linux, Many Fixes

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16 August, 2023

    While many Linux gamers are all-set these days by making use of Steam and leveraging Valve's Steam Play for enjoying Windows games on Linux, for those running macOS or also wishing to enjoy more office/application-oriented Windows software on Linux support, CodeWeavers is out today with CrossOver 23 as the newest release of their commercial Wine-based software...
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      GCC Compiler Adds Software Workaround To Avoid Intel Downfall Performance Hit

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16 August, 2023

    With the Intel Downfall vulnerability made public last week (also known as GDS - "Gather Data Sampling") there can be a sizable hit to AVX workloads making use of the GATHER instructions. For helping to lower the impact of Downfall/GDS on mitigated systems, Intel has made a change to the GNU Compiler Collection to disable GATHER generation in vectorization for Intel CPU families affected by this vulnerability...
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      Distrobox Adds Support For ChromeOS - Allowing More Linux Apps To Run On Chromebooks

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16 August, 2023

    Distrobox as the open-source project allowing easy access to running other distributions/apps via Podman and Docker has merged support for ChromeOS...
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      LoongArch "Loong64" Added To Debian Ports

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16 August, 2023

    In addition to Debian promoting RISC-V to an official CPU architecture for the newly in development Debian 13 cycle, another CPU architecture/port change is adding LoongArch "Loong64" as a new Debian Port...