Linux and BSD Improvements: Intel and EFI (UPDATED)
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Intel Readies New Linux Patches For Optimized Hybrid CPU Performance Including Alder Lake, Raptor Lake & Beyond
Ricardo Neri, an engineer at Intel, submitted four sets of patches to the Linux kernel yesterday to better adjust the Linux kernel scheduler code for the company's hybrid CPUs, including avoiding excessive mitigations within the statistical machine translation (SMT) domains.
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EFI firmware updates on DragonFly
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Adding ESRT and EFI vars support for fwupd
As some might know, FreeBSD gained an interface for querying ESRT about a year ago ([1], [2]), which was done as part of [3].
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Intel's Arc GPUs Can Run On Linux, But Requires Some Effort - Techgage
As we covered last week, Intel has just launched its first desktop-bound Arc GPU, A380, in North America, with Newegg selling cards on both its American and Canadian storefronts. Perhaps not-so-surprisingly, the initial units that were made available disappeared fast, so both Newegg websites currently show the card on backorder. Something we’ve noticed during the lead-up to Arc’s launch is that many seemed to wonder whether or not Intel was planning a Linux driver. It’d hopefully be obvious that Intel would in fact plan a Linux driver, as it’s no stranger to the OS, and typically supports its own hardware well ahead of time. Arc is also planned for enterprise use, and Linux is generally the target there.