Linux Seeing Kernel GPU Driver Support Two Decades Later For Matrox G200 Graphics Cards
The Matrox G200 series desktop graphics cards released in the late 90's are now seeing open-source DRM kernel driver support emerge in 2020...
Intel Linux Graphics Driver Scheduling Improvements In The Works
Longtime open-source Intel Linux kernel graphics driver developer Chris Wilson has out a big new set of patches...
GCC 10.2 Gearing Up For Release Next Week - RC Available For Testing
The GCC crew is preparing to issue their first stable point release to the GCC 10 series next week...
LLVM 11 Feature Development Is Over With Many Changes
LLVM 11 feature development has ended with the code having been branched in Git this morning and the first release candidate expected shortly...
GNU Toolchain Continues Phasing Out Native Client Support (NaCl)
WebAssembly has seen much greater industry interest and adoption than Google's former Native Client (NaCl) effort for sandboxed applications that can be run within web browsers. Native Client hasn't seen any real activity in years and continues fading away...
Intel Adds More "Elkhart Lake" IDs To Their Linux Graphics Driver Code
Intel's Elkhart Lake as the Denverton successor for ultra-low power use-cases has a few more device IDs now in place for the Gen11 graphics...
Libinput 1.16 Will Warn You If Your System Is Too Slow
It's been over a half-year already for the current libinput 1.15 series for this input handling library used on both X.Org and Wayland environments. But libinput 1.16 is finally en route with the first release candidate out today...
Ice Lake Xeons Will Ramp Up Frequencies Slower, So Linux Is Preparing A Workaround
While being very eager to learn more about Intel next-gen Ice Lake Xeon processors as their move in the server space finally from 14nm to 10nm+, we continue to learn new tid-bits from the open-source Linux kernel activity...
Linux 5.9 To Allow Defaulting To FQ-PIE Queuing Discipline For Fighting Bufferbloat
Flow Queue Proportional Integral controller Enhanced (FQ-PIE) that has been mainline for a while in the Linux kernel's networking code will now be supported as an option for the default queuing discipline (qdisc) with the Linux 5.9 kernel...
JEDEC Publishes DDR5 Standard - Launching At 4.8 Gbps, Better Power Efficiency
JEDEC today published their long-awaited JESD79-5 DDR5 SDRAM standard...