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LoongArch Adds ACPI BGRT Support & Other Improvements For Linux 6.12

Phoronix - Sat, 09/28/2024 - 21:06
The LoongArch architecture support for these Chinese processors continue seeing better support with the upstream Linux kernel...

More CXL Additions Arrive For Linux 6.12

Phoronix - Sat, 09/28/2024 - 20:46
Ahead of the Linux 6.12 merge window wrapping up this weekend with the Linux 6.12-rc1 release, merged on Friday were all of the Compute Express Link (CXL) updates for the new kernel...

KDE Sees Many Crash Fixes & Other Improvements Ahead Of Plasma 6.2

Phoronix - Sat, 09/28/2024 - 18:37
KDE developers remain very busy landing bug and crash fixes ahead of the upcoming Plasma 6.2 desktop release...

Valve Helping Arch Linux With Build Service Infrastructure & Secure Signing Enclave

Phoronix - Sat, 09/28/2024 - 18:22
Valve's SteamOS is built atop Arch Linux and now the company is further helping the upstream Linux distribution by collaborating with resources to help with build service infrastructure and a secure signing enclave...

AMD ROCm 6.2.2 Released To Fix Instinct MI300X Error Recovery Failure

Phoronix - Sat, 09/28/2024 - 07:08
It's been just one week since the release of ROCm 6.2.1 while today ROCm 6.2.2 was released...

Linux 6.12 Adds Driver For PixArt PS/2 Touchpad Found In Some Laptops

Phoronix - Sat, 09/28/2024 - 03:19
The input subsystem updates merged this week bring a number of improvements to existing drivers while adding one new input driver...

AMD Releases AMD-135M: An Open-Source Small Language Model

Phoronix - Sat, 09/28/2024 - 02:05
AMD today announced "AMD-135M" as their first small language model they are publicly releasing. AMD-135M is open-source with the training code, dataset, and weights all being open-source to help in the development of other SLMs and LLMs...

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