Hardware vendor Ampere Computing with their impressive ARM servers is doing a great job on closely following their hardware’s Linux performance as part of a rigorous continuous testing regiment or ensuring quality, compatibility, and stability while being fully-automated…
Source: Phoronix – Ampere Computing Is Keeping Close Track Of The Linux Performance For Their ARM Servers
Mesa’s RADV Radeon Vulkan driver just saw a big performance optimization land to benefit APUs like Raven Ridge and Picasso, simply systems with no dedicated video memory…
Source: Phoronix – Mesa Radeon Vulkan Driver Sees ~30% Performance Boost For APUs
LG Electronics has been exploring improvements around hibernation/suspend-to-disk to speed-up the Linux boot process for consumer electronics rather than performing cold boots and as part of that is working towards upstream optimizations…
Source: Phoronix – LG Has Been Working On Reduced Boot Times With Hibernation Optimizations
This week saw OpenGL 4.6 support finally merged for Intel’s i965 Mesa driver and will be part of the upcoming Mesa 19.2 release. Not landed yet but coming soon is the newer Intel “Iris” Gallium3D driver also seeing OpenGL 4.6 support…
Source: Phoronix – Intel Iris Gallium3D Is Close With SPIR-V Support For OpenGL 4.6
While called the Open-Source Summit, the event is primarily about Linux as after all it’s hosted by the Linux Foundation. But at this week’s Open-Source Summit in San Diego, Deb Goodkin as the executive director of the FreeBSD Foundation presented. Deb’s talk was of course on FreeBSD but also why FreeBSD and Linux developers should work together…
Source: Phoronix – FreeBSD’s Executive Director Calls For Linux + BSD Devs To Work Together
It has been almost two years since the release of Enlightenment 0.23 while surprising E23 has now surfaced…
Source: Phoronix – Enlightenment 0.23 Released With Massive Wayland Improvements
Taking place back in May at the beautiful Skamania Lodge in Washington was Intel’s OSTS 2019 for their annual Open-Source Technology Summit that traditionally was internal-only but has begun opening up including allowing external participants this year. I was at OSTS 2019 and it’s by far my highlight of the year with many really great sessions and a lot of useful networking at the event. Intel’s open-source team has now shared some video recordings from this open-source/Linux event…
Source: Phoronix – Intel Shares Highlights From Their 2019 Open-Source Technology Summit
Wayland’s Weston 7.0 was released on Friday with the newest features for this reference compositor implementation…
Source: Phoronix – Wayland’s Weston 7.0 Compositor Released With PipeWire Streaming Support
Wine 4.0.2 is out today as the second stable point release to this year’s Wine 4.0 cycle…
Source: Phoronix – Wine 4.0.2 Released With 66 Bug Fixes
AMD Raven Ridge APUs were a rough launch particularly on Linux where even with the latest motherboard BIOS updates and Linux kernel I am still hitting occasional stability issues, so when the opportunity arose recently to try out the Ryzen 5 3400G as the successor in the Picasso family, I was interested. Fortunately, AMD Picasso APUs have proven to be in better shape on Linux so here is the initial round of performance tests for those interested in the AMD Linux performance on Ubuntu.
Source: Phoronix – AMD Ryzen 5 3400G Is Working Well On Linux
After having been submitting various feature updates to DRM-Next the past few weeks of new graphics driver feature code to introduce in Linux 5.4, a final pull request was sent in today with the remaining feature work slated for this next version of the Linux kernel…
Source: Phoronix – Intel Submits Final Batch Of Graphics Driver Changes For Linux 5.4 – Growing Tiger Lake
Following Spectre/Meltdown, the Linux CPU microcode updating was made serial while now a new patch pending for the Linux kernel would restore the behavior to be parallelized in order to speed-up the process for large core count servers…
Source: Phoronix – Parallel CPU Microcode Updates Being Restored To Help Large Core Count Servers
While NVIDIA recently began publishing more hardware documentation, don’t expect it to make an immediate difference in the quality of the open-source NVIDIA “Nouveau” driver. Today the pull request was sent to DRM-Next of the Nouveau kernel driver changes for the upcoming Linux 5.4 cycle and there isn’t much to get excited about…
Source: Phoronix – Nouveau’s Changes Sent Out For Linux 5.4 In Fixing Up The Open-Source NVIDIA Support
While VKD3D continues to be under heavy development, Valve already appears pleased with it enough that it’s now being built as part of their Wine-based Proton software for powering Steam Play on Linux…
Source: Phoronix – Valve’s Proton To Begin Shipping VKD3D For Direct3D 12 Over Vulkan
Currently the AMDGPU Linux kernel driver doesn’t automatically adjust the video memory clock speeds when running a multi-monitor setup since it’s more complicated to gracefully handle when scanning out to two or more displays. But a set of currently experimental patches will allow memory clock switching support on multi-monitor setups with the AMDGPU DC code…
Source: Phoronix – AMDGPU To Allow Memory Re-Clocking Soon For Multi-Monitor Setups
With Qt 6 becoming an increasing development focus and Qt 5 already seven years old, Ubuntu developers are looking at finally removing Qt 4 ahead of their 20.04 Long-Term Support release…
Source: Phoronix – Ubuntu Planning To Drop Qt4 & Its Dependencies Ahead Of 20.04 LTS
Google’s Simon Glass who is part of the Chromium / Chrome OS team presented at this week’s Embedded Linux Conference in San Diego on U-Boot…
Source: Phoronix – U-Boot Has Been Seeing Better x86 Support, EFI Improvements
NVIDIA last week quietly released a second update to CUDA 10.1…
Source: Phoronix – CUDA 10.1 U2 Adds RHEL8 Support, Nsight Compute Tools For POWER
Following Chromebooks switching to BFQ and other distributions weighing this I/O scheduler for better responsiveness while maintaining good throughput capabilities, beginning with Fedora 31 there will be BFQ used as well…
Source: Phoronix – Fedora Switching To The BFQ I/O Scheduler For Better Responsiveness & Throughput
Released nearly one month ago was the systemd 243 release candidate while the official update has yet to materialize. It looks though like it may be on the horizon with a second release candidate being posted today…
Source: Phoronix – Systemd 243 RC2 Released