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9 October

GCC 15 Un-Deprecates Itanium IA-64 Linux Support
GCC 15 Un-Deprecates Itanium IA-64 Linux Support
9 October 06:14 AM EDT - GNU - Itanium Sticking Around - 23 Comments

The GCC 14 compiler marked Itanium IA-64 support as obsolete with plans to remove that Intel architecture in GCC 15. But for now at least the Itanium Linux compiler support has seen some reprieve with it being un-deprecated.

8 October

Intel Xeon 6980P 1S Performance With DDR5-6400/MRDIMM-8800
Intel Xeon 6980P 1S Performance With DDR5-6400/MRDIMM-8800
8 October 10:40 AM EDT - Processors - 7 Comments

With the Xeon 6980P Granite Rapids benchmarking at Phoronix the past few weeks it's been in a dual socket (2S / 2P) configuration. For those curious about the Intel Xeon 6980P 128-core server performance for a single socket (1S) configuration, here are those complementary results out today and for both DDR5-6400 and MRDIMM-8800 memory configurations. Thus a well-rounded look at the single Xeon 6980P performance compared to other single and dual socket Intel Xeon and AMD EPYC server processors.

Intel's Rendering Toolkit Turns To More Open, Community-Welcoming Development Model
Intel's Rendering Toolkit Turns To More Open, Community-Welcoming Development Model
8 October 09:51 AM EDT - Intel - oneAPI Rendering Toolkit - 4 Comments

Intel's oneAPI Rendering Toolkit with the likes of OSPRay, Embree, OpenVKL, Open Image Denoise, and others has been open-source for years. But it's not been exactly an open-source development model with making it easy for independent contributors to propose code changes. But Intel has now decided to make these projects more like traditional open-source projects and welcoming community contributions -- including from different hardware vendors.

LunarG Exploring Vulkan To Metal Translation With Mesa
LunarG Exploring Vulkan To Metal Translation With Mesa
8 October 06:19 AM EDT - Mesa - Vulkan To Apple Metal - 16 Comments

While there is the open-source MoltenVK project that implements the Vulkan API atop Apple's Metal graphics drivers on iOS/macOS, the 3D graphics consulting firm LunarG is exploring the possibility of implementing Vulkan to Metal translation using Mesa.

7 October

GNOME Foundation Announces Cost Cutting Measures Due To Budget Woes
GNOME Foundation Announces Cost Cutting Measures Due To Budget Woes
7 October 09:00 PM EDT - GNOME - Reducing Travels + More - 132 Comments

While the recently-departed GNOME Foundation Executive Director in the summer statement was described as "drafting a bold five-year strategic plan for the Foundation, securing two important fiscal sponsorship agreements with GIMP and Black Python Devs, writing our first funding proposal that will now enable the Foundation to apply for more grants, vastly improving our financial operations, and implementing a break-even budget to preserve our financial reserves." It turns out that wasn't enough. The GNOME Foundation today announced some new cost-cutting measures for the project overseeing the open-source GNOME desktop.

FEX 2410 Released With New JIT Optimizations
FEX 2410 Released With New JIT Optimizations
7 October 04:09 PM EDT - Linux Gaming - FEX 2410 - 9 Comments

FEX 2410 is out as the newest monthly update to this open-source emulator that allows running Linux x86/x86_64 binaries on Linux AArch64 (ARM 64-bit) systems, including for games and software like Steam. With FEX 2410 there are yet more fixes as well as some new JIT optimizations.

NVGRACE-GPU VFIO Driver Preparing For NVIDIA Grace Blackwell
NVGRACE-GPU VFIO Driver Preparing For NVIDIA Grace Blackwell
7 October 06:39 AM EDT - NVIDIA - NVIDIA Grace Blackwell VFIO Support - Add A Comment

The NVGRACE-GPU VFIO driver was introduced for handling Virtual Function I/O support with the NVIDIA Grace Hopper Superchip so that the GPU device could be assigned to guests using KVM/QEMU and similar for virtualization. The NVGRACE-GPU driver is now being extended for supporting the forthcoming NVIDIA Grace Blackwell "GB" designs.

Linux Thermal/Power Platform Profile Support Coming For Alienware Systems
Linux Thermal/Power Platform Profile Support Coming For Alienware Systems
7 October 06:23 AM EDT - Hardware - dell-wmi-awcc - Add A Comment

Following work last month for extending the Dell WMI sysman Linux driver to handle Alienware systems for managing the system BIOS within the confines of Linux, another separate improvement is on the way for enhancing Alienware hardware support under Linux. This newest effort is introducing the "dell-wmi-awcc" driver for handling functionality found under Windows with the Alienware Command Center.

6 October

More Intel Diamond Rapids Enablement Landing For Linux 6.12
6 October 11:51 AM EDT - Intel - Intel Diamond Rapids - Add A Comment

In addition to Intel's Linux engineers being busy preparing hardware enablement support for next-gen Panther Lake client processors, they are also busy beginning to plumb Linux driver support for next-generation Xeon "Diamond Rapids" support as the successor to Xeon 6 Granite Rapids. With Linux 6.12 some new bits are now set to land for Diamond Rapids.

5 October

Fedora 41 Has Working Intel IPU6 Web Camera Support With Modern Laptops
5 October 09:42 AM EDT - Fedora - Fedora 41 + Intel IPU6 - 9 Comments

It's been a long journey to see good web camera support for Intel Alder Lake and newer designs making use of the IPU6 imaging IP. But with Fedora 41 due for release in the coming weeks, there will finally be good out-of-the-box, open-source support for the IPU6-based web cameras in modern Intel Core laptops across Tigerlake / Alder Lake / Raptor Lake laptops.

SDL 3.1.3 Stable ABI Preview Release
5 October 06:20 AM EDT - Linux Gaming - SDL 3.1.3 - 25 Comments

Sam Lantinga released SDL 3.1.3 on Friday as their "stable ABI preview" version ahead of the SDL 3.2.0 stable release. The developer at Valve notes that SDL3 has already been "battle tested by millions of people in DOTA, CS2 and Steam" and they are now gearing up for the SDL 3.2 stable release to get SDL3 out to the masses.

KDE Plasma 6.2 Preparing For Release Next Week
5 October 06:11 AM EDT - KDE - KDE Plasma 6.2 On 8 October - 19 Comments

KDE developers have been putting the finishing touches on the Plasma 6.2 desktop as it prepares to release next week. Plasma 6.2 will be out on Tuesday barring any last minute issues.

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