Our first price for a laptop with the Snapdragon Elite X just leaked:
14" Galaxy Book Edge: 1800 EUR with 16+512GB.
The same laptop with Intel Core Ultra apparently starts at 1899 and a similar memory spec 13.6" MacBook Air goes for 1749 (though you have the option for lower specs).
A bit disappointed tbh. Galaxy Books always launch weirdly expensive & I guess this might include touch + OLED + pen, but Windows really needs to at least match prices IMO
An engineer's guide to #Linux #Kernel upgrades – slides and recording of this @fosdem talk from Cloudflare employee Ignat Korchagin are now online:
#Fosdem-Page with abstract: https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event/fosdem-2024-3370-an-engineer-s-guide-to-linux-kernel-upgrades/
Video: https://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/fosdem/2024/k1105/fosdem-2024-3370-an-engineer-s-guide-to-linux-kernel-upgrades.av1.webm (AV1/opus) and https://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/fosdem/2024/k1105/fosdem-2024-3370-an-engineer-s-guide-to-linux-kernel-upgrades.mp4 (mp4) #LinuxKernel
Good news for those wanting to build out a custom Arm64 desktop:
ASRock Rack has a mobo+Ampere CPU combo that restocks every few weeks on Newegg: https://newegg.com/p/N82E16813140134
And Noctua's prototyping two new LGA 4926 coolers (pictured: NH-D9 AMP-4926 4U)
I am building out my 45Drives HL15 server with this board and will hopefully have a video up on it soon!
Full review will take longer though—need to test out software, get an idea of power draw, test performance/networking... but so far so good!
Dumping the ROM of a GBA game by crashing it - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-7PSmYYHF0
GBAのゲームクラッシュさせるとメモリを音として出力するからROMをコピーできるの意味分からなさすぎる
GitHub feels extremely down right now. Can't even ping any part of it 👀 (image from https://xkcd.com/303/)
I'm so happy to announce that the first NPU driver has been accepted in Mesa.
Have written a bigger update to celebrate this and properly thank everybody who has been supporting me in this amazing trip so far.
https://blog.tomeuvizoso.net/2024/01/etnaviv-npu-update-15-we-are-upstream.html
Samsung、NVMe SSD「990 EVO」発表、前モデルから最大43%高速化 | マイナビニュース https://news.mynavi.jp/article/20240124-2868988/
Hans ReiserからReiserFSについてのお手紙来てる!????
LKML: "Fredrick R. Brennan": Hans Reiser on ReiserFS deprecation
https://lkml.org/lkml/2024/1/18/245
For those of you who remember stuxnet, more details about how the virus actually might have gotten into the system it was designed for has been disclosed thanks to the Volksrant:
https://www.volkskrant.nl/kijkverder/v/2024/sabotage-in-iran-een-missie-in-duisternis~v989743/
(disclaimer, yes, it's in Dutch, but tools like google translate work well on it, and no, my Dutch is not good enough to read it in the native form, still working on that, ik lees een beetje Nederlands.)
Wasm3 の作者,自宅をロシア軍に破壊されたらしくて開発がほぼ止まってしまったらしい😨 https://twitter.com/wasm3_engine/status/1736712528883769670
For the 2023 ClangBuiltLinux meetup, I decided to revisit my benchmarks comparing how building LLVM with different optimizations such as LTO, PGO, and BOLT can impact how fast it can build Linux kernels:
TL;DR: PGO and BOLT can give huge wins, LTO not so much.
It was pretty wild to see how much PGO made a difference, almost twice as fast in some cases... The kernel.org LLVM toolchains I provide are built with PGO and BOLT for this reason: