Red Hat Engineer Working On DRM Panic Support For AMDGPU Driver

Red Hat engineer Jocelyn Falempe has been working to sort out DRM Panic support for the AMDGPU driver. The DRM Panic infrastructure is useful since it's what allows presenting a panic screen, a.k.a. a "Blue Screen of Death" type experience when running into major kernel problems. With Linux 6.12 there's now the ability to show QR codes for error messages with DRM Panic...
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Zink Seeing VA-API Video Acceleration Implemented Over Vulkan Video

The Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver has experimental code now available for testing that also implements the Video Acceleration API (VA-API) atop the Vulkan Video APIs. This is an interesting effort that now allows VA-API applications to rely on drivers with Vulkan Video support underneath...
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Servo Browser Adds Android Downloads, Improved Tabbing & More

The Rust-written Servo web layout engine project that was born at Mozilla and now continued by Linux Foundation Europe with other stakeholders like Igalia has been making steady progress in recent months. The project's September 2024 status report is now available that outlines recent improvements to this open-source browser layout engine...
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Notcurses Is Still Alive For Ramping Up "Terminal Bling" With Complex TUIs lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

PINE64 Unveils StarPro64 RISC-V SBC with EIC7700X SoC lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

New AMD Linux Patches Aim To Further Boost Performance For Heterogeneous CPU Designs

A new set of patches from AMD Linux engineers today aim to boost the performance for heterogeneous CPU designs such as the recent Ryzen AI 300 "Strix Point" SoCs that have multiple core types...
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Supermicro ARS-211M-NR AmpereOne Server With R13SPD Motherboard lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

Jump and climb through huge structures in the creepy and atmospheric Lorn's Lure lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

Is C Language Still Worth Learning? Pros and Cons for Modern Programmers lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

Intel Xeon 6900P "Granite Rapids" List Prices Top Out At $17,800 USD

Last week with the launch of the Intel Xeon 6900P "Granite Rapids" processors, Intel didn't disclose their list prices... Today they added the Granite Rapids list prices to their ARK database. With Granite Rapids making Intel much more competitive to the AMD EPYC competition and over prior generation Xeon CPUs, these new processors are commanding a higher price tag with t…
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(Updated) Quartz64 Zero: A Low-Cost SBC Featuring Rockchip RK3566T with 64-bit Arm and 32-bit RISC-V CPUs lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

MRDIMM 8800MT/s vs. DDR5-6400 Memory Performance With Intel Xeon 6

Last week when kicking off the Intel Granite Rapids benchmarking with the Xeon 6980P processors there was particularly strong performance within HPC and other scientific computing workloads. Besides going now up to 128 cores / 256 threads per socket, another reason for the especially strong generational uplift and against the current AMD EPYC competition is Xeon 6 Granite …
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