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Linux 6.5+ Bringing Some Performance/Efficiency Improvements For The AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme / ASUS ROG Ally  Phoronix

With the recently released Linux 6.5 kernel bringing AMD P-State EPP by default for modern Ryzen systems rather than the generic ACPI CPUFreq driver, running Linux 6.5 (or newer) in various workloads can lead to improved performance and/or power efficiency. Curious about the impact on the mobile side, I recently carried out some benchmarks of the ASUS ROG Ally gaming handheld with AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme SoC from Linux 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, and 6.6 Git kernels.

Linux Driver Preparing Support For ASUS Screenpad On High-End ...  Phoronix

In addition to the ASUS laptop improvements for Linux 6.6 with the ASUS-WMI driver, additional feature work is on the way for future kernel versions with one of those interesting additions being support for the ASUS Screenpad. Some higher-end ASUS laptops feature a secondary screen "screenpad" on the laptops and the pending ASUS-WMI driver patch will properly support it...

The Servo project is joining Linux Foundation Europe – OSnews  OS News

Since early this year AMD has been working on Linux enablement patches for Dynamic Boost Control (DBC). This is a new feature of some AMD SoCs that allow an "authenticated entity" to have greater control over certain SoC characteristics to improve the power/performance. AMD DBC was merged for Linux 6.6 just days ago while already new patches have been posted that extend the supported platforms for this Dynamic Boost Control functionality...

More teasers appear for upcoming Valve hardware  GamingOnLinux

Amnesia: The Dark Descent Redux mod adds Vulkan and DirectX ...  GamingOnLinux

Proton Experimental fixes up Metro Exodus, Sword Art Online ...  GamingOnLinux

KDE Plasma 6 to launch in February 2024 | GamingOnLinux  GamingOnLinux

The Great CentOS Linux Migration: How We Got Here and What’s Next  DevOps.com

Intel Arc GPUs Receive New Driver Optimizations on Linux, Up To 15% Gaming Performance Uplift  Wccftech

While we've been looking forward to Bcachefs landing and carrying out a fresh round of performance testing of Bcachefs against other file-system options, it's looking clear now that Bcachefs won't be landing for the Linux 6.6 merge window...

Bcachefs Looks Like It Won't Make It For Linux 6.6  Phoronix

Merged on Thursday were a batch of KVM virtualization changes for the Linux 6.6 kernel...

Linux 6.6 KVM Brings Intel & AMD Fixes, SEV-ES DebugSwap, New RISC-V Extensions  Phoronix

OpenZFS 2.2-rc4 Delivers Last Minute Fixes  Phoronix

OpenZFS 2.2 has been in the works to provide Linux container support, BLAKE3 checksumming, block cloning and other new features. It's looking like that release will be wrapped up soon while released on Thursday was v2.2-rc4 to help encourage last minute testing of this file-system driver for Linux and FreeBSD systems...

Libre Computer AML-S905X-CC-V2 SBC directly installs Linux images from the Internet  CNX Software

Libre Computer AML-S905X-CC-V2 SBC directly installs Linux ...  CNX Software