on (#3493Z)
It's been a busy past few days in Mesa Git for RADV development...
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on (#347TZ)
This morning I delivered the initial Linux processor benchmarks of the Core i7 8700K and Core i5 8400 for the just-launched "Coffee Lake" desktop processors. With these Intel "Gen 8" processors, the integrated "HD Graphics" from Kabylake have been rebranded to "UHD Graphics". While there wasn't any real changes architecturally to the graphics hardware, right now the Linux support isn't quite out-of-the-box.
on (#3472K)
PyPy, the self-hosting alternative Python interpreter, is up to version 5.9 for its Python 2 and Python 3 language support...
on (#346RD)
Veteran GCC contributor and SUSE developer Jan Hubicka has begun working on some Zen tuning within the GNU Compiler Collection for benefiting the Ryzen / Threadripper / Epyc processors...
on (#346HF)
Server administrators can upgrade to PostgreSQL 10.0 with it now being the latest stable release of this SQL database system...
on (#3467H)
2017 has been an interesting year for processors with AMD's long awaited introduction of the Zen-based Ryzen / Threadripper / EPYC processors, Intel's Core X-Series processors for high-end desktops, the Xeon Scalable processor family introduction, and now the launch of Coffee Lake as a "Kaby Lake Refresh" step before the Cannonlake desktop processors expected in 2018. While another 14nm CPU, Coffee Lake is interesting is that Intel has now upped their desktop core counts in response to Ryzen. With the Core i7 series is now six cores plus Hyper Threading, compared to 4 cores plus HT with previous i7 models. The Core i5 CPUs are also now six core but sans Hyper Threading and there is also the just-published Core i5 8400 Linux benchmarks. This article serves as our first look at the Coffee Lake Core i7 CPUs in the form of the 8700K.
on (#3467J)
Today marks the embargo expiry for reviews on Intel's new Coffeelake desktop processors. While a CPU refresh may not normally be too exciting, thanks to the pressure from AMD with their Ryzen processors pushing core counts higher, Intel is now upping the core counts in their desktop CPUs. Today we will be featuring Linux benchmarks of the Core i5 8400 and Core i7 8700K while this article is focusing on the i5-8400: a six-core Core i5!
on (#3464A)
Last week I published the Radeon RX Vega Performance With Mesa 17.3-dev + LLVM 6 + drm-next-4.15-dc article offering a fresh look at the RX Vega 56/64 Linux performance using the new AMDGPU DC code that's likely to be merged in Linux 4.15. As well, the latest Mesa 17.3-dev Git code built against LLVM 6.0 SVN while all compared to the latest NVIDIA driver. Out of that article came some premium requests to see a larger comparison, so here that is...
on (#3467K)
LibertyBSD 6.1 is now available as a deblobbed version of OpenBSD...
on (#34628)
With Qt 5.9 being a Long-Term Support release, Qt 5.9.2 is out today with the latest bug fixes and performance improvements...
on (#345QM)
GNOME 3.26.1 officially made it out last night as the only planned point release update prior to next year's GNOME 3.28...
on (#344XN)
With X.Org Server 1.20 not expected for release until early next year, Adam Jackson of Red Hat today issued the X.Org Server 1.19.4 point release...
on (#344TH)
Videos from the recent GNU Tools Cauldron 2017 are now available online where matters from the GCC compiler to glibc and compiler diagnostics were discussed...
on (#344HS)
It has been several years since last seeing an update to the Amarok open-source music player, but it looks like it may be alive and ticking after all, at least with one developer working towards a KF5/Qt5 port...
on (#344C5)
The open-source, unofficial Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" developed independent of AMD by the community and contributors at Google and Red Hat is now considered a conformant driver...
on (#343NT)
Building off last week's Wine 2.18 release is the newest Wine-Staging build with various extra patches added in, including work that benefits those running Windows games on Linux...
on (#343NV)
GNOME 3.26.1 is shaping up to be a decent point release as besides Mutter finally picking up the half-tiling mode improvements, GNOME Shell 3.26.1 also has its share of changes...
on (#34368)
Todd Weaver of Purism has provided an update on the planned Librem 5 smartphone hardware components and that with a development board they do have Debian booting...
on (#342M6)
I've just wrapped up trying out nine different Linux distributions on AMD's EPYC in the form of the EPYC 7601 housed in the TYAN Transport SX TN70A-B8026. Like our initial testing with Ubuntu on EPYC, the other modern Linux distributions all played nicely with AMD's re-entry into the server market with their Zen-based offerings. But as with any new CPU platform, the out-of-the-box performance can vary greatly depending upon the Linux operating system being used. Here are benchmarks including Fedora, Ubuntu, CentOS, openSUSE, Debian, Clear Linux and Antergos.
on (#342GC)
For those wanting to see some fresh Linux CPU benchmarks with various AMD Ryzen and Intel Core processors, here are some benchmarks with Ubuntu 17.10 paired with its Linux 4.13 kernel build...
on (#342BN)
LEDE 17.01.3 is the newest release of the Linux Embedded Development Environment that is derived from OpenWRT and intended as a complete firmware replacement for various routers and other devices...
on (#342BP)
David Airlie has managed to squeeze a bit more performance out of Feral Interactive's Mad Max Vulkan port with one line of code change to RADV...
on (#342BQ)
The improvements covered a few months ago about better half-tiling support in GNOME have finally been queued...
on (#340J4)
AMD has announced the Embedded Radeon E9170 graphics processor, which is quite an interesting petite GPU...
on (#340C8)
NVIDIA has launched their first beta driver in the 387 series for Linux...
on (#3408H)
NVIDIA has announced a new open-source project: NVDLA...
on (#33ZXP)
After being delayed by two weeks due to bugs, the beta of Fedora 27 is shipping this morning...
on (#33ZV1)
With the upcoming release of Ubuntu 17.10, I was curious to see how its performance compares to that of the three-year-old Ubuntu 14.10. Here are some benchmark results showing how an Intel ultrabook/laptop performance has evolved on Linux during that time.
on (#33ZQ5)
The latest release in the FreeBSD 10 series is now available with some work backported from FreeBSD 11 and other improvements/fixes...
on (#33ZD7)
The beta of Fedora 27 is finally set to be released today. Here's a look at the new features of Fedora 27...
on (#33ZD8)
Numba is designed to allow for high performance Python JIT-compiled code designing for C/C++ levels of performance while using LLVM for optimizations and allowing GPU offloading too. NVIDIA is promoting Numba in the context of CUDA...
on (#33Z6P)
It's not yet merged to mainline Mesa, but Eric Anholt of Broadcom has spent the past week wiring up more of the OpenGL functionality for the in-development VC5 driver stack for the next-generation Broadcom graphics hardware...
on (#33Z4K)
Last winter we covered work being done out of the Imperial College in London on the wild results when fuzzing OpenGL shaders in uncovering issues in multiple OpenGL drivers, including the Mesa drivers. The scholarly results were recently published of this testing within Automated Testing of Graphics Shader Compilers...
on (#33Z33)
Rejoice as S3TC (S3 Texture Compression) support now resides within Mesa Git following its patent expiry on Monday...
on (#33Z4M)
The latest work hitting LLVM 6.0 is support for the Myriad ma2x8x class of processors and some other missing Myriad CPUs...
on (#33XPA)
Version 17.09 of the NixOS Linux distribution built around the Nix package manager is out with a new release...
on (#33X89)
The first beta of KDevelop 5.2 is now available as the KDE-focused integrated development environment...
on (#33WZ3)
As expected, Mesa 17.2.2 was released today by Igalia's Juan Suarez Romero...
on (#33WJX)
FreeBSD 12.0 will have initial support for ZFS Channel Programs (ZCP) for running administrative tasks on the file-system via Lua...
on (#33WAW)
New kernel patches have been posted for enabling Thunderbolt networking support...
on (#33W1Y)
As mentioned last week, the S3TC patent has now expired. With the S3 Texture Compression no longer encumbered by a patent, support for it is being added to mainline Mesa...
on (#33VYA)
D language support will be added to GCC and today the third revision to these patches have been published...
on (#33TZS)
While some bogus Linux market-share reports put the Linux desktop usage at over 6% for the month prior, the Valve-reported Steam Linux numbers decreased month over month...
on (#33TM4)
Linus Torvalds has continued in his traditional Sunday release cadence of issuing a new kernel update for testing...
on (#33S83)
During September on Phoronix, yours truly wrote 280 original news articles and 30 featured articles/reviews. There was a lot of exciting happenings last month but October and more broadly Q4 is looking to be even more exciting with a lot on the horizon...
on (#33S84)
NASA is still said to be porting their "Eyes" visualization software to Linux...
on (#33QGS)
The Unity 3D Game Engine now has available a beta release of its upcoming "2017.3" update. There are interesting changes with this release...
on (#33Q1X)
With Ubuntu 17.10 discontinuing the 32-bit desktop ISOs, here is the last time it makes sense comparing the Ubuntu 32-bit (i686) versus x86_64 performance.
on (#33PZZ)
After being twice delayed, the beta of Fedora 27 is cleared for release next week...