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Linux 6.9-rc6 Released With This Kernel Looking "Pretty Normal"

Phoronix - Mon, 04/29/2024 - 05:25
Linus Torvalds just released Linux 6.9-rc6 as the latest weekly test release of Linux 6.9 as it works toward its stable release by mid-May...

AMD Enabling "Fast CPPC" For Even Greater Linux Performance & Power Efficiency On Some CPUs

Phoronix - Sun, 04/28/2024 - 23:05
While AMD Zen 4 processors whether it be the Ryzen 7000/8000 desktop/mobile series or EPYC 8004/9004 series server processors are already performing very well on Linux and with great power efficiency against the competition as shown in dozens of Phoronix articles at this point, it turns out there's been a minor power/performance optimization left untapped yet under Linux for select Zen 4 processors. A new patch series posted this Sunday allows for this "fast CPPC" feature to be utilized on supported processors...

More AMDGPU Driver Code For Linux 6.10 Brings MES Updates, FreeSync Fixes

Phoronix - Sun, 04/28/2024 - 21:55
On top of prior DRM-Next pull requests for the AMD kernel graphics driver working on next-gen GPU support along with fixes and other low-level improvements, on Friday another batch of new feature code was submitted to DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 6.10 merge window opening up in mid-May...

Linux 6.9-rc6 To Fix Accidentally Disabling Mitigations By Default For Non-x86 CPUs

Phoronix - Sun, 04/28/2024 - 21:38
A commit made to the Linux kernel three weeks ago accidentally broke the default CPU security mitigations for non-x86 CPUs. With code sent in today via x86/urgent ahead of tonight's Linux 6.9-rc6 release, that accidental default breakage is being addressed...

Cloud Hypervisor 39 Adds NVIDIA GPUDirect P2P Support

Phoronix - Sun, 04/28/2024 - 18:52
Cloud Hypervisor 39 was released on Saturday for this cloud-focused, Rust-based VMM started by Intel and now a multi-vendor Linux Foundation project...

Zrythm 1.0 RC1 Available For Testing As Great Open-Source Digital Audio Workstation

Phoronix - Sun, 04/28/2024 - 18:45
Since going beta in 2020, the Zrythm open-source digital audio workstation software has been inching its way toward a v1.0 release. On Saturday marked the release of v1.0.0-rc.1 as a release candidate for the upcoming v1.0 release of this GTK-based digital audio workstation (DAW) software...

LLVM Clang 19 Adds Arm Neoverse-N3 / Neoverse-V3 / Neoverse-V3AE Support

Phoronix - Sun, 04/28/2024 - 18:07
Merged on Friday to the development codebase for the LLVM/Clang 19 compiler is support for the Arm Neoverse N3, V3, and V3AE SoCs...

Rust-Based Coreutils 0.0.26 Increases Compatibility With GNU Coreutils

Phoronix - Sun, 04/28/2024 - 00:09
The uutils' Rust-based Coreutils implementation is out with another update that further increases the drop-in replacement compatibility with GNU Coreutils...

Llamafile 0.8.1 GPU LLM Offloading Works Now With More AMD GPUs

Phoronix - Sat, 04/27/2024 - 20:48
It was just a few days ago that Llamafile 0.8 released with LLaMA 3 and Grok support along with faster F16 performance. Now this project out of Mozilla for self-contained, easily re-distributable large language model (LLM) deployments is out with a new release...

Rework For Intel CPU Model Handling To Land With Linux 6.10

Phoronix - Sat, 04/27/2024 - 18:34
Intel engineers have been reworking Intel CPU model handling for Linux after using "Family 6" since the mid-90's with the P6 micro-architecture and continuing to rev the model ID only with new micro-architectural generations. It's an end of the era for Family 6 coming up and thus there's a lot of Linux patches being worked on to address assumptions within the kernel code that was only checking for an Intel CPU's model ID and not for any family ID differences...

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