Let’s start by plugging in a USB stick (using the FAT, ExFAT or NTFS file systems) on macOS Ventura… and see what happens. The NTFS… Read More »Quick look at user-mode file systems on macOS Ventura

Quick look at Rosetta on Linux.

Windows supports encryption of the boot drive with two separate features, BitLocker and Device Encryption. The two features Device Encryption This feature is available on… Read More »Boot drive encryption security on Windows

This post will mainly focus on ROCm HIP wasted opportunities for adoption. I wrote an overview of ROCm earlier at https://threedots.ovh/blog/2021/11/what-is-amd-rocm/. This post will specifically… Read More »AMD ROCm: a wasted opportunity

NVIDIA has multiple different open-source kernel drivers for their GPU and display hardware, used in different scenarios – and working on different sets of NVIDIA… Read More »NVIDIA’s open-source drivers

Microsoft’s Antares code generator supports generating code for ROCm HIP on Windows among other targets. How does it compile and execute that code when the… Read More »ROCm HIP on Windows?

ZhaoXin is a company selling x86 SoCs in the Chinese market. Let’s see for a bit what their GPU drivers look like. Where does the… Read More »ZhaoXin’s GPU drivers for Windows

The GNU Compiler Collection has an NVIDIA PTX target, supporting both offload modes for OpenMP and OpenACC on NVIDIA GPUs. It also supports a quite… Read More »GCC’s NVPTX target

Side note: OpenCL support doesn’t ship at all for NVIDIA Jetson platforms. As such, CUDA is the only available low-level GPGPU API there. NVIDIA’s embedded… Read More »CUDA on NVIDIA Jetson – just not the same

Android is the most popular operating system in the world, rolled out on billions of devices. What is the level of flexibility allowed across across… Read More »Standards on Arm platforms for OS support – Android