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

Phoronix - 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

Phoronix - 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

Phoronix - 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

Phoronix - 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

Phoronix - 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

Phoronix - 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

Phoronix - 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...

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