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/proc/cpuinfo Will No Longer Show AMD SVM When It's Been Disabled By The BIOS

Phoronix - Tue, 10/31/2023 - 17:18
The x86/cpu changes for the Linux 6.7 kernel have been merged and is highlighted by a small but useful change for propagating of the AMD SVM virtualization feature flag to /proc/cpuinfo...

Apple Announces The M3 / M3 Pro / M3 Max

Phoronix - Tue, 10/31/2023 - 09:32
Apple tonight announced the M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max as what they are promoting as the "most advanced chips" for a personal computer and leverage the TSMC 3nm process...

Linux 6.7 Makes More Preparations For The AMD Instinct MI300A APUs

Phoronix - Tue, 10/31/2023 - 08:34
While there has already been various open-source Linux driver upstreaming work around the AMD Instinct MI300 series both for the MI300X GPU-only solution and the MI300A APU-based accelerator, for Linux 6.7 more work is happening...

Btrfs Picks Up New Features For Linux 6.7

Phoronix - Tue, 10/31/2023 - 03:37
While we wait to see if Bcachefs will be merged for Linux 6.7, there are other exciting enhancements landing for existing Linux file-systems. With Btrfs in Linux 6.7 comes three new features plus some performance optimizations and other improvements...

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