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Since the early 2000s, the potential for upgrading the CPU in the Silicon Graphics O2 with a 900 MHz RM7900 has been blocked by the inability to modify the PROM firmware. To that end, I built ip32prom-decompiler, a program that decompiles the PROM into so

GNOME 40 was released at the end of March, and yesterday I added the last bits of it to Gentoo. You may not think that's fast, and you'd be right, but it's a lot faster than any GNOME release has been added to Gentoo that I can recall. I wasn't looking to

On Intel's Gen graphics, three source instructions like MAD and LRP cannot have constants as arguments. When support for MAD instructions was introduced with Sandybridge, we assumed the choice between a MOV+MAD and a MUL+ADD sequence was inconsequential,

In November I was lamenting the lack of selection in credible Haswell-powered laptops for Mesa development. I chose the 15" MacBook Pro, while coworkers picked the 13" MBP and the System76 Galago Pro. After using the three laptops for a few months, I revi

When I started at working at Intel last year on the open source 3D driver I was given a spare Lenovo T420s (Sandybridge) as my development machine. Almost everyone on my team had upgraded to Ivy Bridge by February, but I planned just to hold out a few mon

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