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Revised AVX-512 xor_gen() Implementation For Linux RAID Yielding More Performance Gains

Phoronix - 2 hours 29 min ago
A few days back I wrote about Google's Eric Biggers spearheading an AVX-512 implementation of xor_gen() as the Linux kernel function used for generating and validating parity blocks such as for RAID5/RAID6. That initial implementation was yielding up to 41% better performance while a new implementation has now been posted for scoring some additional victories...

pkgcli As PackageKit's Modern, Nicer Command Line Interface

Phoronix - 2 hours 42 min ago
Open-source developer Matthias Klumpp wrote a blog post today outlining his recent work developing pkgcli, a new and modern command-line interface (CLI) around the PackageKit package management abstraction layer...

Wine-Staging 11.11 Released With 289 Patches Atop Upstream

Phoronix - 12 hours 21 sec ago
Following Friday's exciting release of Wine 11.11 with Wayland driver improvements, Wine-Staging 11.11 is now available for this experimental/testing derivative that continues carrying nearly 300 patches atop the upstream codebase...

Intel Ending Development Of BigDL: An Open-Source AI/LLM Effort Getting Axed

Phoronix - Sat, 06/13/2026 - 22:38
Among Intel's ongoing reduction in open-source projects they maintain, their BigDL open-source project focused on running large language models across Intel XPUs from Core Ultra laptops to discrete GPUs to cloud / data center hardware all in a low-latency manner, is being ended...

Fedora 45 Considering A Lightened GRUB Bootloader For Confidential Compute

Phoronix - Sat, 06/13/2026 - 20:22
Among the changes being considered for the in-development Fedora 45 is a lightened version of the GRUB UEFI bootloader that would focus on being a minimal implementation suitable for confidential computing...

Intel Thermald 2.5.12 Released... With Initial Support For ARM

Phoronix - Sat, 06/13/2026 - 18:47
Released on Friday was the newest version of Intel Thermald, the thermal daemon developed by Intel for their processors on Linux for monitoring and helping control temperatures across modern Intel-powered laptops and desktops. Catching me immediately by surprise was Intel Thermald 2.5.12 introducing support for ARM...

GCC 17 Merges Function Multi-Versioning For APX & AVX10.2

Phoronix - Sat, 06/13/2026 - 18:20
Earlier this month I wrote about Intel working on function multi-versioning support for APX and AVX10.2 with the GCC compiler. This allows developers to write optimized code paths specifically targeting Advanced Performance Extensions (APX) or Advanced Vector Extensions 10.2 capabilities of future processors while being able to otherwise fall-back to generic or other optimized code paths for other ISA target features. This work is now merged for GCC 17...

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