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The alignment check exception that this feature uses is, apparently, a feature of all Intel x86 CPU's since the Tremont. Googling around it seems that...

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Huh, why haven't they updated?...

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Disappointing that they chose to reinvent the wheel instead of contributing to established battle-tested solutions in this space like sssd and realmd...

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RHEL kernels have always been frankenkernels with boatloads of in-house backports from newer releases....

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Ah yes, all phoronix members designing your own nuclear weapons raise your hands please!...

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I'm not that familiar with AMD GPU's so I'm just speculating here, but I'd say it's not a "hardware scheduler" in the sense that the scheduler...

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As already mentioned, this is not really about implicit vs explicit sync, but anyway, since you asked (with a disclaimer I'm not at all a low level graphics...

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No, not really. Compilation is largely serial with a huge number of branches. Yes, modern GPU's are Turing complete so it's theoretically possible to...

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You want to use PAPPL if you're developing a "CUPS Printer Application", a piece of software that makes a legacy (as in, doesn't support IPP...

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Yeah, seems everybody, in particular including open source Mesa driver developers, thinks that an explicit sync architecture is better. The current Linux...

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Sure, in an ideal world. In the current reality however, the vast majority of devices have non-free firmware. I mean, look at the Debian wiki list of...

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So with a modern device which requires firmware, the vendor has basically 3 different options:

1. Put the firmware on ROM. This of course has the big downside

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Oh! You're right, of course, my apologies. Seems the original list by SofS is correct, then....

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Comparing https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSE3 and https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSE4 it seems from the mainstream product lines in addition to what...

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If we're to believe the glibc developers who created and approved these patches the main reason is to reduce the binary size, since CPU's that prefer...