Arm Announces Cortex-A78, Cortex-X Custom
Arm today announced the Cortex-A78 as their SoC for next-generation smartphones with up to 20% sustained performance improvements. Arm also announced today the Cortex-X Custom program...
A Quick Look At GCC 10.1 PGO Optimization Benchmarks
Following the GCC 10.1 compiler optimization benchmarks posted this weekend, a number of readers were wondering about the impact of Profile Guided Optimizations (PGO) on the new GCC 10 compiler. Here are some preliminary data points on that front...
Qt 5.15 Released With Graphics Improvements, Preparations Ahead Of Qt 6
It's coming a few days late but The Qt Company's Lars Knoll just announced the official release of Qt 5.15.0...
Reiser5 File-System Working On New Features Like Data Tiering, Burst Buffers
Reiser5 was announced back on New Year's Eve with support for local volumes and supporting parallel scaling out and other improvements over the long-in-development but never mainlined Reiser4. While Reiser5 was not met with enthusiasm, Edward Shishkin has continued working on this next-generation file-system and today announced the latest round of improvements...
Qualcomm Adreno 650 + 640 GPUs To Be Supported By Mainline Linux 5.8 Kernel
The crew working on the MSM DRM driver from Freedreno / Google / Code Aurora (Qualcomm) have an interesting batch of changes for this open-source GPU driver for Qualcomm Adreno hardware come Linux 5.8...
Linux 5.8 Picking Up A Quirk For Being Able To Reboot The 2009 MacBook Without Hangs
With the upcoming Linux 5.8 cycle a quirk is being added to be able to reboot the 2009 era Apple MacBook without needing to boot with any special flags...
Adaptive-Sync/VRR Seeing Port To xf86-video-modesetting Driver
Currently if wanting to use Adaptive-Sync/FreeSync variable refresh rate support of the AMDGPU DRM kernel driver you need to be using the xf86-video-amdgpu X.Org driver for proper handling as well, but a port of the DDX bits to the generic xf86-video-modesetting driver is in the works...
Phoronix Test Suite 9.6.1 Released For Cross-Platform, Open-Source Benchmarking
One month after the big Phoronix Test Suite 9.6 release, Phoronix Test Suite 9.6.1 is out as the first and only planned point release to this quarter's feature series...
Two More Projects Join KWinFT Fork Of KDE KWin, Beta Milestone Reached
Announced over one month ago was KWinFT as a fork of KDE's KWin with an emphasis on improving the Wayland support and better embracing modern technologies. A beta of KWinFT is now available...
AMD Energy Driver Queued Ahead Of Linux 5.8 For Core/Package Power Sensors
Landing this weekend in hwmon-next ahead of the upcoming Linux 5.8 kernel cycle is the recently reported on "amd_energy" driver for supporting AMD Zen/Zen2 core and package energy sensors...