Intel P-State Getting Energy Efficiency Knob, EPB Knob Change
Intel's P-State CPU frequency scaling driver for Linux systems has been seeing a number of refinements lately including some major changes like shifting towards the "Schedutil" scheduler utilization governor by default. Further tuning with new/changed knobs is also on the way for giving users more control over their CPU power / performance preferences...
Microsoft Posts Initial DRM Driver For Hyper-V Synthetic Video Device
Microsoft has posted their initial patch implementing a Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) driver for the synthetic video device exposed by their Hyper-V virtualization stack...
FGKASLR Revised For Better Linux Security Via Enhanced Address Space Randomization
One of many high profile features that didn't make it in time for Linux 5.8 is FGKASLR, Function Granular Kernel Address Space Layout Randomization...
It's Looking Unlikely KDE Will See Per-Screen Scaling On X11 This Year
At the start of 2020 well known KDE developer Nate Graham who publishes the weekly status reports on their desktop environment posted a 2020 KDE roadmap of sorts. Now being half-way through the year, here is a look at how that roadmap is looking with what items have been completed, what is still being tackled, and what is looking less likely to be accomplished...
NVIDIA Vulkan Beta Driver Finally Adds External Memory Host Support
NVIDIA today released a new Vulkan beta driver for Linux systems at version 440.66.17...
Ampere Announces Altra Max 128-Core Server Processor
Back in March Ampere Computing detailed their next-gen Altra ARM-based server CPU with up to 80 cores per socket. Today the company is revealing more roadmap details including the forthcoming Altra Max that offers 128 cores per socket.
Dell To Begin Shipping Ubuntu 20.04 LTS On Their Latest XPS Developer Edition
Dell is announcing this morning that their latest XPS Developer Edition laptops are beginning to ship with Ubuntu 20.04 LTS as the latest version of the popular desktop Linux distribution...
Open-Source Qualcomm "TURNIP" Vulkan Driver Adds Tessellation Shader Support
Mesa's TURNIP Vulkan driver for open-source Qualcomm Adreno support took another big step forward this week with the mainlining of tessellation shader support...
RADV Vulkan Driver Adds New Workaround For Path of Exile Game
A new tunable for the RADV driver is to disable bounds checking for dynamic buffer descriptors. The initial beneficiary of this driver workaround is for satisfying the Path of Exile role playing game running under Wine / Proton (Steam Play)...
Apple's Compiler Team Starts Upstreaming Changes For macOS 11
It wasn't even twenty four hours ago that Apple disclosed their plans for transitioning to in-house chips for future laptops and desktops and with that macOS 11. Already we are seeing the first of the LLVM compiler patches being upstreamed in preparing for the wild new Apple future...