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HiSilicon Proposes "Cache Lockdown" Driver For More Control Over L3 Cache

Phoronix - 1 hour 35 min ago
A Huawei engineer sent out a proposed driver for the Linux kernel to enable "cache lockdwon" behavior for HiSilicon ARM64 processors for greater control over the processor's L3 cache usage...

X.Org Server 21.1.21 Released To Fix Several Regressions

Phoronix - 4 hours 6 min ago
For those continuing to make use of the X.Org Server, a new point release is now available in the 21.1 series. While most often X.Org Server stable releases these days are driven by shipping new security fixes, the X.Org Server 21.1.21 release is to fix several regressions introduced for various functional issues...

Intel LLM Scaler vLLM Update Supports More Models

Phoronix - 4 hours 19 min ago
Intel software engineers continue to be hard at work on LLM-Scaler as their solution for running vLLM on Intel GPUs in a Docker containerized environment. A new beta release of LLM-Scaler built around vLLM was released overnight with support for running more large language models...

libinput 1.30 Released With Support For Writing Plug-Ins In Lua

Phoronix - 4 hours 33 min ago
Red Hat's leading Linux input expert Peter Hutterer released libinput 1.30 today as the newest update to this input handling library used on both X.Org and Wayland desktops...

Linux Kernel Developers Eye Uses For Extra General Purpose Registers With APX

Phoronix - 14 hours 9 min ago
With Advanced Performance Extensions (APX) on upcoming Intel processors doubling the number of general purpose registers (GPRs) among other advantages, Intel engineers are beginning to think of possible kernel uses for the extra registers...

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