AMD's ROCm AOMP Compiler 11.7-1 Brings OMPD Support, ROCgdb
The AMD ROCm developer tool engineers have released a new build of AOMP, their LLVM Clang compiler downstream that adds OpenMP support for Radeon GPU offloading until that support ultimately makes it back upstream into LLVM/Clang...
Intel Prepping Bus Lock Detection For Linux To Avoid This Performance Pitfall
Building off the recently mainlined Intel work on split lock detection, Intel engineers have now been extending that with bus lock detection support...
MSM Open-Source Driver Continues On Qualcomm Adreno 640/650 Series Bring-Up
The open-source MSM DRM driver developed by Google, Qualcomm's Code Aurora, and other parties as what started out as part of the "Freedreno" driver initiative is continuing to see better support for the newer Adreno 640 and 650 series...
Linux Quietly Makes It Harder To Guess Network RNG's Internal State
Merged today to mainline for Linux 5.8 Git and also marked for back-porting is a change to make it more difficult to guess the network random number generator's internal state. It looks like it could be for a yet-to-be-published vulnerability...
GCC Sees More Progress On Ability To Parallelize The Compilation Of Large Source Files
While GCC with GNU Make and other build systems can scale nicely in compiling many files concurrently, there has been an ongoing GCC effort to be able to parallelize more of the GNU Compiler Collection work when compiling large source files...
BootHole Blows Hole In GRUB2 Bootloader Security, Including UEFI SecureBoot
A major vulnerability in the GRUB2 boot-loader has been made public today that compromises its UEFI SecureBoot capabilities...
Samsung 870 QVO SSD Performance On Ubuntu Linux
The Samsung 870 QVO solid-state drives announced at the end of June have begun appearing at Internet retailers. The Samsung 870 QVO is the company's latest QLC NAND solid-state drive offering 1TB of storage for a little more than $120 USD all the way up to 4TB for $500 and an 8TB variant for $900. For those curious about the EXT4 file-system Linux performance out of the Samsung 870 QVO,
Nano 5.0 Released As A Big Feature Update To This Easy-To-Use Terminal Text Editor
The popular GNU Nano terminal text editor has reached version 5.0...
Apache Software Foundation Estimates Its Code Value Increased ~$600M For FY2020
For fiscal year 2019 the Apache Software Foundation valued their codebase at around $20 billion USD. The open-source organization has now published their annual report for fiscal year 2020...
Google Sends Patches For AMD Zen / Zen 2 RAPL PowerCap Support
Building off the work sent out by Google engineers in recent months and merged for Linux 5.8 around RAPL support for AMD Zen / Zen 2 CPUs with supporting the "runtime average power limiting" counters on Linux similar to Intel's longstanding support, that work has continued now with Zen RAPL support in the PowerCap driver...