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Pinned Device Memory Patches For Intel's Multi-GPU "Project Battlematrix" Linux Efforts

Wed, 08/20/2025 - 00:12
As part of Intel's ongoing Project Battlematrix efforts that include SR-IOV support for Arc Pro cards as well as multi-device (multi-GPU) support for allowing up to eight Intel Arc Pro graphics cards in a single system, today Intel engineers posted their preliminary Linux driver patches for pinned device memory functionality that is important for multi-GPU usage...

Rusticl vs. AMD ROCm Performance On Ryzen AI Max+ "Strix Halo"

Tue, 08/19/2025 - 22:00
One of the set of tests I have been meaning to carry out for a number of months has been comparing the Mesa Rusticl performance to different dedicated hardware drivers. Rusticl is the Rust-based OpenCL 3.0 driver within Mesa that works across Gallium3D drivers and over the past many months has been maturing rather well. Among the targets I have been wanting to compare is how well Rusticl competes with the AMD ROCm OpenCL implementation for Radeon GPUs. Given all the interest recently around Strix Halo and the Framework Desktop as well, today's benchmarking is looking at the performance between these different OpenCL driver implementations for the Radeon 8060S Graphics.

Linux Adding Detection For BSD's Bhyve Hypervisor To Support 255+ vCPUs

Tue, 08/19/2025 - 19:52
Bhyve is the BSD hypervisor / virtual machine manager (VMM) developed by FreeBSD that supports a range of operating systems and across CPU vendors. With time Bhyve has also been ported to other BSDs and even Illumos and macOS. The Linux kernel is now in the process of adding guest detection for the Bhyve hypervisor in order to support VMs with 255+ vCPUs...

Apple SoC DT Updates Already Begin Lining Up For Linux 6.18

Tue, 08/19/2025 - 18:21
While the Linux v6.17 merge window only wrapped up earlier this month, Apple Silicon DeviceTree "DT" updates have already begun queuing for the Linux 6.18 merge window that will happen in October...

Intel Upstreams XeVM Into LLVM

Tue, 08/19/2025 - 18:07
Intel's newest contribution to the upstream LLVM compiler stack is XeVM as their Multi-Level Intermediate Representation "MLIR" dialect catering to modern Intel graphics processors...

Kernel Stack Watch Proposed As New Linux Debugging Tool

Tue, 08/19/2025 - 17:55
Patches were posted on Monday for Kernel Stack Watch, a new lightweight debugging tool for detecting kernel stack corruption in real-time on Linux...

New Linux Patches Allow Manipulating Out-Of-Memory Behavior Using BPF

Tue, 08/19/2025 - 08:47
Google engineer Roman Gushchin has proposed the ability for the Linux kernel to customize the out-of-memory "OOM" behavior using BPF programs...

AMD "GFX1250" To Double The Number Of User SGPRs

Tue, 08/19/2025 - 07:34
We still don't have much confirmed information on AMD's GFX1250 that has come to light in recent months due to being developed for their AMDGPU shader compiler back-end within LLVM. AMD GFX1250 surfaced in LLVM activity and the past few months has been seeing more additions made. A notable change committed today for LLVM is that the number of user Scalar General-Purpose Registers (SGPRs) has doubled...

AMD ZenDNN 5.1 Released For Enhancing AI Inference Performance On EPYC CPUs

Tue, 08/19/2025 - 04:18
Following the AMD ZenDNN 5.0 release from last year's EPYC Turin launch that brought big performance improvements for CPU-based inferencing with this open-source library compatible with Intel's oneDNN, today marks the availability of ZenDNN 5.1 as the next update...

Kdenlive 25.08 Preps For Future Hardware Acceleration Features

Tue, 08/19/2025 - 03:24
Kdenlive 25.08 is out today as the newest feature release for this KDE/Qt-aligned open-source video editor. In addition to a number of new features, there are also many bug fixes including more than 15 crash fixes...

Git 2.51 Released With More Changes Preparing For Git 3.0

Tue, 08/19/2025 - 01:17
Git 2.51 is out this Monday as the newest milestone for this widely-used, distributed version control system...

A Deep Dive Into The Power & Thermals For The Framework Desktop With AMD Ryzen AI Max

Mon, 08/18/2025 - 23:40
The Framework Desktop is a nifty and powerful mini PC powered by AMD Ryzen AI Max "Strix Halo". It's been a pleasure testing this small yet powerful Linux-friendly system that easily offers much better performance than the Intel Core Ultra 9 and superb energy efficiency. For complementing the data shared earlier this month in our Framework Desktop review, today's article is a deep dive into the power and thermals of the Framework Desktop in a few different configurations.

AMD Posts Latest Linux Patches For Improving S5 Power Consumption

Mon, 08/18/2025 - 23:02
One of the areas worked on by AMD Linux engineers recently to better optimize the Linux kernel on AMD Ryzen platforms is for lowering the power consumption in S5 state due to some devices not being put into a low power state when the system is powered off. Sent out today was the sixth iteration of these patches...

Firefox 142 Now Available - Allows Browser Extensions/Add-Ons To Use AI LLMs

Mon, 08/18/2025 - 21:36
The Firefox 142.0 release binaries are now available ahead of the official release announcement due out on Tuesday. Firefox 142 isn't bringing many notable changes but one is likely to cause some contention around Firefox Extensions...

GNOME 49 Merges Late Mutter Change To Help Cursor Responsiveness With VRR

Mon, 08/18/2025 - 21:12
Merged today to Mutter ahead of next month's GNOME 49 release is an important improvement for those making use of Variable Rate Refresh (VRR)...

Illumos Cafe Hopes To Reinvigorate Interest In Illumos/OpenSolaris Derived Platforms

Mon, 08/18/2025 - 20:17
It's been 15 years already since the Illumos project was formed as based on the OpenSolaris codebase after Oracle's acquisition of Sun Microsystems and closing down OpenSolaris. Illumos Cafe is a new effort akin to BSD Cafe aiming to be a resource and helping to reinvigorate interest in Illumos-based platforms...

SDL3 Enhances Logic For Selecting The Most Performant Vulkan GPU

Mon, 08/18/2025 - 18:22
The SDL3 library that is widely-used by cross-platform games has landed new code for revising how it selects the high performance GPU in multi-GPU systems...

Intel Graphics Compiler 2.16 Fixes PyTorch For Battlemage GPUs, Adds BMG-G31 + WCL

Mon, 08/18/2025 - 18:14
Ahead of the next Intel Compute Runtime oneAPI/OpenCL release, a new version of the Intel Graphics Compiler "IGC" has been released for Windows and Linux...

Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2 5-Inch Released For $40

Mon, 08/18/2025 - 17:52
The newest hardware offering announced by Raspberry Pi today is a 5-inch variant of the Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2...

Linux 6.17-rc2 Released With Performance Fixes & More

Mon, 08/18/2025 - 06:59
Linux 6.17-rc2 is now available to facilitate the latest weekly testing of the Linux 6.17 kernel...

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