This little project <https://github.com/cariboulabs/cariboulite> for an
SDR (Software-Defined Radio) addon card for a Raspberry Pi popped up on
my feed. What caught my eye was that it made use of something called
“SMI” (the “Secondary Memory Interface”) which exists on the GPIO
connector but is not properly documented. There is a link to this blog
post <https://iosoft.blog/2020/07/16/raspberry-pi-smi/> in which the
writer reports some investigations into the details of this interface.
Speed tests in that article give results of 25 16-bit samples per
second or more, depending on the Raspberry Pi model; though note there
are some odd glitches sometimes, as well as high bus contention
(clearly pushing the Pi hardware to its limits). Maybe this is why the
interface is not documented: because it is not considered
production-ready ...
'The June Steam Survey results show that AMD CPUs have gained
significant popularity among Linux gamers, with a market share of 67%
-- a remarkable 7% increase from the previous month. Phoronix reports:
In part that's due to the Steam Deck being powered by an AMD SoC but
it's been a trend building for some time of AMD's increasing Ryzen CPU
popularity among Linux users to their open-source driver work and
continuing to build more good will with the community.
In comparison, last June the AMD CPU Linux gaming marketshare came in
at 45% while Intel was at 54%. Or at the start of 2023, AMD CPUs were
at a 55% marketshare among Linux gamers. Or if going back six years,
AMD CPU use among Linux gamers was a mere 18% during the early Ryzen
days. It's also the direct opposite on the Windows side. When looking
at the Steam Survey results for June limited to Windows, there Intel
has a 68% marketshare to AMD at 32%.
Beyond the Steam Deck, it's looking like AMD's efforts around
open-source drivers, AMD expanding their Linux client (Ryzen)
development efforts over the past two years, promises around OpenSIL,
and other efforts commonly covered on Phoronix are paying off for AMD
in wooing over their Linux gaming customer base.'
-- source: https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/23/07/03/2233208
Cheers, Peter
--
Peter Reutemann
Dept. of Computer Science
University of Waikato, Hamilton, NZ
Mobile +64 22 190 2375
https://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/http://www.data-mining.co.nz/
'Today, Mozilla released Firefox 115. Changes most visible to users include:
* Hardware video decoding is now enabled for Intel GPUs on Linux..
* Migrating from another browser? Now you can bring over payment
methods you've saved in Chrome-based browsers to Firefox.
* The Tab Manager dropdown now features close buttons, so you can
close tabs more quickly.
* The Firefox for Android address bar's new search button allows you
to easily switch between search engines and search your bookmarks and
browsing history.
* We've refreshed and streamlined the user interface for importing
data in from other browsers.
* Users without platform support for H264 video decoding can now
fallback to Cisco's OpenH264 plugin for playback.
But the most important feature is that this release is the new ESR.
Why this is important? y'all ask, well:
* Many a "downstream" project depends on Firefox ESR, for example the
famous email client Thunderbird, or KaiOS (a mobile OS very popular in
India, SE Asia, Africa and LatAm), so, for better or worse, whatever
made it to (or is lacking from) this version of the browser, those
projects have to use for the next year.
* Firefox ESR is the default browser of many distros, like Debian and
Kali Linux, so, whatever made it to this version will be there for
next year, ditto to whatever is lacking.
* If you are on old -- unsupported OSs, like Windows 7, 8-8.1 or MacOS
10.14 (Mojave, the last MacOS with support for 32 Bit Apps), 10.13 or
10.12 you will automatically be migrated to Firefox ESR, so this will
be your browser until Sept. 2024.'
-- source: https://news.slashdot.org/story/23/07/04/189258
Cheers, Peter
--
Peter Reutemann
Dept. of Computer Science
University of Waikato, Hamilton, NZ
Mobile +64 22 190 2375
https://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/http://www.data-mining.co.nz/
'Wikipedia defines the Yocto Project as "a Linux Foundation
collaborative open source project whose goal is to produce tools and
processes that enable the creation of Linux distributions for embedded
and IoT software that are independent of the underlying architecture
of the embedded hardware."
This week the Linux Foundation shared an update on the 12-year-old
Yocto Project:
In an effort to support the community, The Yocto Project announced the
first Long Term Support (LTS) release in October 2020. Today, we are
delighted to announce that we are expanding the LTS release and
extending the lifecycle from 2 to 4 years as standard.
The continued growth of the Yocto Project coincides with the welcomed
addition of Exein as a Platinum Member, joining AMD/Xilinx, Arm, AWS,
BMW Group, Cisco, Comcast, Intel, Meta and WindRiver. As a Member,
Exein brings its embedded security expertise across billions of
devices to the core of the Yocto Project...
"The Yocto Project has been at the forefront of OS technologies for
over a decade," said Andrew Wafaa, Yocto Project Chairperson. "The
adaptability and variety of the tooling provided are clearly making a
difference to the community. We are delighted to welcome Exein as a
member as their knowledge and experience in providing secure Yocto
Project based builds to customers will enable us to adapt to the
modern landscape being set by the US Digital Strategy and the EU Cyber
Resilience Act."
"We're extremely excited to become a Platinum Partner of the Yocto
Project," said Gianni Cuozzo, founder and CEO of Exein. "The Yocto
Project is the most important project in the embedded Linux space,
powering billions of devices every year. We take great pride in
contributing our extensive knowledge and expertise in embedded
security to foster a future that is both enhanced and secure for
Yocto-powered devices. We are dedicated to supporting the growth of
the Yocto Project as a whole, aiming to improve its support for modern
languages like Rust, and assist developers and OEMs in aligning with
the goals outlined in the EU Cyber Resilience Act." '
-- source: https://linux.slashdot.org/story/23/07/01/0346241
Cheers, Peter
--
Peter Reutemann
Dept. of Computer Science
University of Waikato, Hamilton, NZ
Mobile +64 22 190 2375
https://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/http://www.data-mining.co.nz/
