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Farewell Intel Xeon Phi: Support Removed In The GCC 15 Compiler

Last week I wrote about Intel aiming to remove Xeon Phi support in GCC 15 with the products being end-of-life and deprecated in GCC 14. While some openly wondered whether the open-source community would allow it given the Xeon Phi accelerators were available to buy just a few years ago and at some very low prices going back years so some potentially...

Mon May 20, 2024 17:25
AMDGPU ISP Firmware Upstreamed In linux-firmware.git

It was just earlier this month that AMD Linux kernel graphics driver patches appeared for introducing a new ISP hardware block for Image Signal Processing with new AMD APUs. Already the AMDGPU ISP firmware has appeared in linux-firmware.git indicating that this "ISP" block may be coming in hardware quite soon if not already quietly found within some...

Mon May 20, 2024 16:30
OCFS2 File-System Seeing Improved Write Performance On Linux 6.10

It's not often having anything to write about on the Oracle Cluster File-System v2 (OCFS2), but with Linux 6.10 it's seeing a rather significant performance optimization...

Mon May 20, 2024 15:05
Linux 6.10 Will Print The Number Of Populated Memory Slots At Boot Time

As a small information heads up, the Linux 6.10 kernel will print the number of populated memory slots at boot time to the kernel log as a little helper...

Mon May 20, 2024 15:05
Intel CR 24.17.29377.6 Offers Latest OpenCL & oneAPI Level Zero Support

Intel Compute Runtime 24.17.29377.6 is now available as the latest routine update to this open-source GPU compute stack used by the company's integrated and discrete graphics products for providing OpenCL and oneAPI Level Zero compute capabilities...

Mon May 20, 2024 13:55
Fwupd 1.9.20 Released With Updated FPC Fingerprint Reader Support

While Fwupd developers are working toward the Fwupd 2.0 release, out this morning is Fwupd 1.9.20 as the newest point release for this open-source solution for firmware updating on Linux that pairs with the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS)...

Mon May 20, 2024 13:55

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