Intel Atom Camera Driver Resurrected In Linux 5.8 - Benefits A Lot Of Devices
The Linux 5.8 media subsystem changes restore a previously dropped driver for supporting the cameras found on multiple generations of Intel Atom devices...
Red Hat's Stratis Storage 2.1 Released With Encryption Support, Other Improvements
Version 2.1 of Red Hat's Stratis daemon is now available that aims to bring Btrfs/ZFS-like functionality atop the XFS file-system paired with LVM...
Linux 5.8 To Allow Swapping Fn / Ctrl Keys On Apple Keyboards
While there have been out-of-tree Linux patches offering this support already, with the in-development Linux 5.8 kernel comes a mainline solution for allowing the Fn and left Control keys to be swapped on Apple keyboards...
Intel oneAPI DPC++ Compiler 2020-05 Released
Intel has released oneAPI DPC++ Compiler 2020-05 as their latest snapshot for the current state of their LLVM-based Data Parallel C++ Compiler...
Phoronix Test Suite 9.8 Milestone 1 Readies Another Round Of Benchmarking Features
This week marks 16 years since starting Phoronix.com and 12 years since the Phoronix Test Suite 1.0 release, so what better way to celebrate than a new development release of the Phoronix Test Suite...
More Scheduler Optimizations Land In Linux 5.8
As part of the many areas of the kernel managed by Ingo Molnar, on Tuesday he submitted the pull request with all of the scheduler code updates for Linux 5.8...
AMD Zen/Zen2 RAPL Support Merged In Linux 5.8
Complementing the new AMD Energy Driver in the hwmon subsystem for Linux 5.8 to provide per-socket/core reporting, the Linux perf subsystem in this new kernel version has run-time average power limiting (RAPL) framework integration for AMD Zen/Zen2 CPUs...
Radeon ROCm 3.5 Released With New Features But Still No Navi Support
Radeon Open Compute 3.5 (ROCm 3.5) is now available with a number of improvements but surprisingly still no GFX10/Navi support...
Blender 2.83 Released With OpenVDB Support, Initial OpenXR Integration
Blender 2.83 is out today as the project's first long-term support release (LTS) while still introducing many new features and improvements for existing functionality...
Linux 5.8 Supporting Intel TPAUSE Power-Optimized Delays, TSC Fix When Overclocking
TPAUSE is the new Intel instruction for supporting lightweight power/performance optimized and improved power/performance states for sleeping until the timestamp counter (TSC) has reached a desired value. This new instruction with Intel's Tremont architecture will now be used by Linux 5.8+ on supported CPUs for an optimized power state while waiting on a delay event...