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Intel oneAPI 1.0 Officially Released
After announcing oneAPI at the end of 2018 and then going into beta last year, oneAPI 1.0 is now official for this open-source, standards-based unified programming model designed to support Intel's range of hardware from CPUs to GPUs to other accelerators like FPGAs. Intel's oneAPI initiative has been one of several exciting software efforts led by the company in recent years while continuing to serve as one of the world's largest contributors to open-source software.
Wine-Staging 5.18 Adds sRGB Color Profile, Another Fix For Microsoft Flight Simulator
Building off Friday's release of Wine 5.18 is now an updated Wine-Staging that adds just over 600 patches atop the upstream code-base for delivering experimental/testing features...
AMDVLK 2020.Q3.6 Vulkan Driver Brings Several Fixes
AMD driver developers today released AMDVLK 2020.Q3.6 as their latest open-source snapshot of their official Vulkan graphics driver...
LVFS/Fwupd Serve More Than 20 Million Firmware Downloads For Upgrades On Linux
It was just earlier this summer that the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) crossed 17 million firmware downloads while today the Linux hardware community is celebrating that already surpassing 20 million downloads!..
NetBSD Changes Its Default X11 Window Manager After Two Decades
It's 2020 and NetBSD has changed its default X11 window manager after more than two decades with TWM...
OpenSSH 8.4 Brings Better Support For FIDO/2FA Keys
Version 8.4 of OpenSSH has been released and among its wide assortment of changes is a lot of continued work on FIDO/2FA key handling...
Vulkan 1.2.155 Released With EXT_shader_image_atomic_int64
Vulkan 1.2.155 is out this morning as a small weekly update over last week's spec revision that brought the Vulkan Portability Extension 1.0 for easing software-based Vulkan implementations running atop other graphics APIs...
Broadcom Has 200G Ethernet Link Speed Support Coming To Its Driver For Linux 5.10
Broadcom engineers have prepared their Linux network driver infrastructure for supporting 200G link speeds...
MSM Adreno DRM Driver For Linux 5.10 Has DisplayPort, Per-Process Pagetables
Rob Clark who founded the Freedreno/MSM driver project and current Googler sent in the MSM direct rendering manager driver updates targeting the upcoming Linux 5.10 merge window. This time around the Adreno kernel graphics/display driver has some notable additions...
Linux 5.9 Stable Expected In Two Weeks, But For Now Is Linux 5.9-rc7
Linus Torvalds just released Linux 5.9-rc7 as the newest weekly test candidate for Linux 5.9. Due to the regressions encountered this cycle and prominent issues being resolved late, he's looking at releasing Linux 5.9 in two weeks time rather than next week...
More Vulkan NCNN Inference Benchmarks On AMD Radeon vs. NVIDIA GeForce Under Linux
Given the interest from the RealSR-NCNN Vulkan benchmarks on various NVIDIA and AMD Radeon graphics cards looking at this neural network inference framework with the task of upscaling an image by 4x the resolution using RealSR, here are some more benchmarks of the NCNN framework accelerated by Vulkan on different GPUs under Ubuntu Linux...
Independent Developers Tackling Snapdragon 630/660 SoC Support For The Upstream Linux Kernel
Qualcomm's Snapdragon 660 is approaching four years old and the Snapdragon 630 a bit younger than that, but these mobile phone SoCs may soon find renewed life on the upstream Linux kernel thanks to the work of community developers...
DP-HDMI2.1 Protocol Converter Support Being Tackled For Intel Linux Graphics
Patches sent out on Friday provide an initial DP-HDMI2.1 PCON implementation for the Intel Linux kernel graphics driver...
Virt-Manager 3.0 Released With UI Improvements, Cloud-Init Option
Virt-Manager 3.0 quietly got released a little more than one week ago...
After ~70% FPS Boost For Zink, The OpenGL-on-Vulkan Code Is ~50% The GL Native Speed
For those following the development of Zink as a software OpenGL driver built atop the Vulkan API, there are some new performance numbers to discuss this weekend...
KWinFT Projects Hit Beta Ahead Of Stable Releases Aligned With KDE Plasma 5.20
KWinFT as a fork of KDE's KWin focused on better Wayland support and other modernization efforts is approaching its first stable release next month around the same time as KDE Plasma 5.20...
Warzone 2100 Lands Vulkan Renderer, Adaptive V-Sync For 20+ Year Old Game
Warzone 2100 as the real-time strategy/tactics game that first premiered in 1999 before becoming open-source in 2004 and then fully open-source with game data in 2008 is now evolving in 2020 with Vulkan graphics support...
Debian 10.6 Released With Many Security & Bug Fixes
While Debian 11 "Bullseye" is on the way for release next year, Debian 10.6 "Buster" is out this weekend as the latest stable installment for this GNU/Linux distribution...
Mesa 20.3 Can Now Consume SPIR-V Binaries Generated By LLVM's libclc
Microsoft's work on Mesa continues with a Microsoft engineer reviving earlier work carried out by David Airlie for allowing SPIR-V binaries produced by LLVM's libclc library to work with Mesa OpenCL...
KDE Plasma 5.20 Should Be Crashing A Lot Less Under Wayland
Following the recent Plasma 5.20 beta release, KDE developers have been landing many fixes for the Plasma 5.20 desktop ahead of its official release in October...
SiFive Begins Adding RISC-V "Bullet" Microarchitecture Code To LLVM
On Friday night patches began to appear for "RISC-V Bullet" in the LLVM compiler code-base...
Apple Open-Sources Swift System, Adds Linux Support
Earlier this year Apple engineers announced Swift System as their new library for low-level system interfaces. They have now open-sourced Swift System while also introducing Linux support...
AMD Sends Out Linux Kernel Support For Van Gogh APUs - Confirms DDR5 Memory, VCN3
As a nice Friday afternoon patch series there is the 275k lines of code for wiring up the next-generation AMD Van Gogh APU support under Linux...
Wine 5.18 Released With VKD3D 1.2's vkd3d-shader Usage
Wine 5.18 is out as the newest bi-weekly feature development release...
NVIDIA GeForce vs. AMD Radeon Vulkan Neural Network Performance With NCNN
With having added Tencent's NCNN tests to the Phoronix Test Suite with Vulkan acceleration, here is a look at the real-world impact by using RealSR-NCNN for scaling up with RealSR. Various NVIDIA GeForce and AMD Radeon graphics cards were tested for this initial NCNN / RealSR-NCNN Vulkan comparison.
Firefox Nightly Flips On New JIT "Warp" Code For Greater JavaScript Performance
Mozilla's SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine team have been working on a big update to their just-in-time compiler code. This big update called "Warp" is now enabled in the latest Firefox Nightly builds for offering big speed-ups...
Linux 5.10 To See RAID10 DISCARD Improvement - From 259 Seconds To Less Than 1 Second
Queued today into the block subsystem's "-next" area ahead of the Linux 5.10 cycle kicking off next month are some MD RAID enhancements...
Phoronix Test Suite / OpenBenchmarking.org Now Has 600 Different Tests/Benchmarks
Ahead of next month's Phoronix Test Suite 10.0 release and the new OpenBenchmarking.org, the milestone was met this week of having 600 different test profiles (benchmarks) available for automated execution via our open-source, cross-platform benchmarking software...
Trenchboot Secure Launch Support For Linux Sees New Patches
For a while now Oracle engineers and others have been working on Trenchboot as a means of secure launch/boot support when paired with the likes of Intel TXT and AMD SKINIT for trusted execution and configuring each piece of the software boot chain for trusted/secure handling. The latest kernel patches have been sent out for review for secure launching of the kernel...
GraalPHP Is A PHP JIT Implementation Built On GraalVM
Oracle's GraalVM has seen language support well outside of Java/OpenJDK from Ruby to WebAssembly to R and Python. The newest language seeing an experimental implementation built atop GraalVM is PHP...
Zink OpenGL-Over-Vulkan With Unigine Heaven Seeing Improved Performance
Following word last week that the Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan layer was seeing 50~100% performance gains, more details are now available...
Fedora 33 Beta To Be Released Next Week
After missing the preferred target date of 15 September and the secondary beta target date of this week, Fedora 33 Beta is now on track to ship next week...
Intel DG1 Sound Support Coming For Linux 5.10
Intel continues bringing up the DG1 discrete graphics card under Linux with continued refinements set to hit for Linux 5.10...
AMD Is Hiring To Work On New Radeon Driver Tooling Written In Rust
It turns out AMD is at least exploring the possibilities around using the Rust programming language in their graphics driver tooling...
AMD Ryzen 9 3900XT CPUFreq Governor Comparison With Linux 5.9
One of the most frequent questions received at Phoronix in recent times is whether the "schedutil" governor is ready for widespread use and if it can compare in performance to, well, the "performance" governor on AMD Linux systems. Here are some benchmarks of an AMD Ryzen 9 3900XT using the latest Linux 5.9 development kernel in looking at the performance differences between the CPUFreq governor options of Ondemand, Powersave, Performance, and Schedutil.
Linux 5.10 To Support Nitro Enclaves For Security-Critical Applications
The kernel support for Nitro Enclaves landed this week in char-misc-next ahead of the Linux 5.10 cycle kicking off next month...
Arm Begins Bringing Up Neoverse N2, Neoverse V1 Support In The GNU Toolchain
It was just a few days ago that Arm outlined the Neoverse N2 "Perseus" design as a follow-on to the Neoverse N1 and coming concurrently to the next-generation Cortex-A. Now the company has already jumped on beginning their open-source/Linux enablement work around the Neoverse N2...
PostgreSQL 13 Released With Performance Improvements
PostgreSQL 13.0 is out this morning as the latest major update to this widely-used relational database server...
DragonFlyBSD 5.8.2 Released With Numerous Fixes
DragonFlyBSD 5.8.2 is out today as the latest stable version of this popular BSD operating system...
Intel Engineers Begin Landing Open-Source Support For TDX, Intel Key Locker
Last month Intel published a whitepaper on TDX as Trust Domain Extensions as a means of better securing virtual machines. TDX allows for isolating VMs from the hypervisor and other non-VMM system software. Intel TDX builds off other recent work around MKTME memory encryption and other features. We are now beginning to see that software side support roll-out along with the also-new Key Locker instructions...
HPE Preparing SGI UV5 Support For The Linux Kernel
Recent hardware enablement work on the Linux kernel is HPE bringing up UV5 support...
Fedora 34 Aims To Further Enhance Security But Will Lose Runtime Disabling Of SELinux
Currently on Fedora the Security Enhanced Linux (SELinux) functionality that's there by default can be disabled at run-time via the /etc/selinux/config but moving forward with Fedora 34 they are looking at removing that support and focusing just on disabling via selinux=0 at the kernel boot time in order to provide greater security...
Disman Continues Taking Shape As Display Management Library For X11/Wayland
Disman is the display management library forked from LibKScreen as part of KWinFT. Last week at XDC2020 an update was provided on this Qt/C++ library for display management...
NVIDIA CUDA 11.1 Released With RTX 30 Series Support, Better Compatibility Across Versions
NVIDIA has released version 11.1 of their CUDA toolkit that now supports the GeForce RTX 30 "Ampere" series graphics cards...
Intel Announces Atom x6000E Series "Elkhart Lake", 11th Gen Core Tigerlake-UP3
After talking about Elkhart Lake for months in terms of the Linux patches bringing up this next-generation Intel processor, Intel is announcing it today in the form of the Atom x6000E series. Additionally, following the recent Tiger Lake client processor launch, 11th Gen Core Tigerlake-UP3 has also been announced.
Lenovo Announces 27 Systems To Ship With Ubuntu Pre-Installed
Following Lenovo rolling out Fedora Linux options for their laptops and their other Linux-related announcements this year, Lenovo and Canonical are announcing today nearly thirty different laptops and desktops will begin shipping with the option for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS pre-installed...
Easier Vulkan Debugging Of Windows Applications Running Under Wine Is On The Way
With patches pending it will be easier to debug Windows games/applications running under Wine on Linux...
AMDGPU For Linux 5.10 Brings PCIe DPC Recovery, More RDNA2 Updates
Another batch of AMDGPU kernel driver updates have landed in DRM-Next ahead of the upcoming Linux 5.10 kernel cycle...
Arch Linux Based EndeavourOS Begins Providing ARM Builds
The Arch Linux based EndeavourOS that was born out of Antergos Linux has released new builds for September 2020 and also gotten into the ARM Linux game...
LLVM 11.0-RC3 Released For This Big LLVM/Clang Update
LLVM 11.0 was originally scheduled to be released at the end of August while now it looks like that official milestone is coming in the next few days or week...
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