Linux and Graphics Leftovers
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Kernel Space
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LWN ☛ Lots of new stable kernels
Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of seven new stable kernels:
6.7.6, 6.6.18, 6.1.79, 5.15.149, 5.10.210, 5.4.269, and 4.19.307. As usual, they contain many
important fixes throughout the kernel tree.
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Graphics Stack
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Tomeu Vizoso: Etnaviv NPU update 17: Faster!
In the last update I explained how compression of zero weights gave our driver such a big performance improvement.
Since then, I have explored further what could take us closer to the performance of the proprietary driver and saw the opportunity to gather some of the proverbial low-hanging fruit.
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Benchmarks
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Tom's Hardware ☛ Nvidia Grace falls short of Threadripper 7000 in head-to-head GNU/Linux benchmarks
A 39-test comparison of Nvidia's 72-core Grace CPU to AMD's Threadripper 7980X and 7995WX shows Grace on the heels of Threadripper 7000.
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