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[chithanh]

NVidia sets the standard here, due to their market position.
AMD's closed driver also needs to emulate NVidia's driver in order to execute OpenGL...

[chithanh]

I think bridgman explained a number of times that the problem was not getting compatibility profile to be supported. The problem is that a lot of behavior...

[chithanh]

Indeed, the reputation of AMD was severely impacted by OEMs using AMD processors only in cheap plastic 3 kg 15" 1366x768 laptops, and stopping to...

[chithanh]

This action by OpenBSD may or may not be due to this:

TLBleed: When Protecting Your CPU Caches is Not Enough
https://www.blackhat....

[chithanh]

Notebook is a special situation. AMD agreed to transfer all responsibility for releasing Windows drivers to the OEM.


The statement...

[chithanh]

I don't think this problem is Windows-specific. It is rather the bloat that invariably comes with vendor supplied&packaged software.

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[chithanh]

Windows users get a WHQL driver for APUs every 3 months, instead of monthly(?) releases for the dGPUs.

So it is not "really scarce"....

[chithanh]

From the PS4 Linux project's presentation at 33c3, there were a number of quirks to address, firmware needed reverse engineering, and some PC legacy which...

[chithanh]

The income this generates will remain largely with the publishers for their editorial work. The researchers have a paid job already. The peer reviewers...

[chithanh]

I am not only talking about computational cost. It adds complexity to the whole thing which is bad in its own regard. I encourage you too to watch Gal...

[chithanh]

Not true. You are delusional if you think that addressing 64-bits of memory requires 5-level (or even 6-level) paging in any way. The 5-level paging is...

[chithanh]

Not at all. Windows CE is very different from Windows.

Windows RT however was a straight port of Windows 8 to ARM. It could even run Win32...

[chithanh]

The legacy crap causes major headaches for virtualization. I recommend watching Gal Diskin's 30c3 talk titled "virtually impossible".
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[chithanh]

IA-64 was meant to displace all the other RISC architectures which were around on servers. And it worked. PA-RISC and Alpha are no longer around (well...

[chithanh]

I hope that whatever APU is used in the PS5 will find its way to individual mobos too. PS4 has nice graphics performance and now runs Linux, but the low...

[chithanh]

Almost.
R7 370X/370 -> R9 270X/270/R7 265 -> 7870/7850 are based on Pitcairn.
R9 280X/280 -> 7970/7950/7870XT are based on Tahiti....

[chithanh]

Thanks for the detailed reply.
Not at hand. I saw bug reports and forum posts coming in from our users (I am a Gentoo developer), but not recently....

[chithanh]

L_A_G
Interesting. Maybe Supermicro does hot have an official distributor in your country, that would explain it.

Do note that there...

[chithanh]

Huh? To my knowledge only the Gigabyte MZ30/MZ31 mobo has this problem. Plus the price difference between the X399-Prime and the cheapest socket SP3 mobo...

[chithanh]

Gentoo has an x32 port. Also, with Gentoo you have control over what your libraries are compiled for (x86, x32, amd64). So you can run a pure x32 system...