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EPYC vs. Xeon Gold In Nearly 200 Tests With Ubuntu On Linux 4.15

Coming later today is a large Intel/AMD CPU comparison using the latest Linux 4.15 stable kernel that is mitigated for Spectre and Meltdown and using around two dozen tests. For the high-end Xeon Gold and EPYC servers, I ran close to 200 tests on those platforms.

12 February 2018 - Linux 4.15 - 1 Comment
Remember The EOMA68 Computer Card Project? It Hopes To Ship This Year

The EOMA68 computer card project is the open-source hardware effort that aims to be Earth-friendly and allow for interchangeable computer cards that can be installed in laptop housings and other devices. The ambitious concept relying upon ARM SoCs raised more than $170k USD via crowdfunding in 2016 but its lineage dates back to the failed Improv dev board as well as the failed KDE Vivaldi tablet years earlier. It turns out in 2018 there is hope of EOMA68 hardware finally shipping.

11 February 2018 - EOMA68 - 19 Comments
New Slimbook KDE Plasma Ultrabook Rolled Out

The KDE community and the Odin Group have announced a new version of the Slimbook, the KDE-branded laptop running Neon. While it's an improvement over last year's model, it's still a tough sell against other laptops/ultrabooks.

8 February 2018 - Slimbook 2 - 15 Comments
Laptop Mode Tools 1.72 Ported To Python 3 & PyQt5

For those making use of laptop-mode-tools as one of several Linux power saving tools with this one designed to improve Linux laptop battery life, version 1.72 is now available after more than one year of development.

1 February 2018 - Laptop-Mode-Tools - 5 Comments
Open-Source Adreno A6xx GPU Support Posted

Recently I wrote about Qualcomm's Code Aurora working on Adreno A6xx GPU support and sure enough that has panned out with the initial patch series being posted for this latest-generation Qualcomm GPU architecture.

1 February 2018 - Freedreno A6xx - 1 Comment
The State Of VR HMDs On Linux With DRM Leasing, Etc

Keith Packard who has been doing contract work for Valve the past year on improving the support for virtual reality head-mounted displays (VR HMDs) shares a status update on his work at this week's Linux.Conf.Au in Sydney.

26 January 2018 - LCA 2018 Update - 6 Comments
Linux Graphics Trends Over The Past Five Years
Linux Graphics Trends Over The Past Five Years

Yesterday I posted some Linux hardware statistics going back to 2011 using data collected by the Phoronix Test Suite and OpenBenchmarking.org. Those yearly metrics hadn't contained any GPU/driver data, but here are those numbers.

13 January 2018 - Statistics - 4 Comments
The Current CPU Driver Usage Difference Between RADV/RadeonSI & NVIDIA

Yesterday I posted some fresh GPU/driver benchmark results for discrete AMD Radeon and NVIDIA GeForce graphics cards. These were some of the most competitive numbers yet we've seen out of the open-source RadeonSI OpenGL and RADV drivers while using the latest Linux 4.15 kernel, especially for the GTX 1060 vs. RX 580 battle. In the comments were requests to see some CPU utilization numbers, including from one of the Radeon Linux developers, so here is a look at how the CPU usage compares.

11 January 2018 - CPU Usage Impact - 23 Comments
OpenChrome DRM Continues To Be Developed, But It Didn't Make It Mainline This Year

The OpenChrome DRM driver continues to largely be developed by one community contributor left standing for supporting VIA x86 graphics on the Linux desktop. These VIA graphics chipsets haven't been too common in about a decade, but OpenChrome continues persevering with working to deliver a full-functioning, open-source driver that VIA itself was never able to produce.

26 December 2017 - VIA OpenChrome - 3 Comments
Linux 4.15 Will Treat The HTC Vive VR Headset As "Non-Desktop"
Linux 4.15 Will Treat The HTC Vive VR Headset As "Non-Desktop"

Currently if plugging in the HTC Vive for a virtual reality experience on Linux, the head-mounted display (HMD) is treated just as a conventional display. But now with a new set of changes for Linux 4.15, the kernel will know it's a "non-desktop" display.

23 November 2017 - Non-Desktop Quirk - 10 Comments
Linux 4.10 To Linux 4.15 Kernel Benchmarks

The ThinkPad X1 Carbon has been enjoying its time on Linux 4.15. In addition to the recent boot time tests and kernel power comparison, here are some raw performance benchmarks looking at the speed from Linux 4.10 through Linux 4.15 Git.

22 November 2017 - Linux 4.10 To 4.15 - 9 Comments
G-Homa WiFi Smart Meter ETH+XMR Mining Power Efficiency
G-Homa WiFi Smart Meter ETH+XMR Mining Power Efficiency

German Phoronix reader Thomas Frech is back with another guest post on the topic of ETH/XMR mining under Linux. This time around he's sharing some power efficiency numbers using a new G-Homa WiFi smart meter. See his past articles in this series here.

11 November 2017 - G-Homa - 20 Comments
Etnaviv Gallium3D May Eventually Tackle OpenCL
Etnaviv Gallium3D May Eventually Tackle OpenCL

Two developers from the Pengutronix embedded Linux company out of Germany presented at this week's Embedded Linux Conference in Europe. There they talked about zero-copy video streaming on embedded systems, and as part of that, the Etnaviv open-source graphics driver.

26 October 2017 - Vivante Open-Source - 8 Comments

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