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Intel Thermal Daemon 2.5.10 Released With A Few Improvements

Phoronix - Fri, 10/03/2025 - 12:00
As the first update to the Intel Thermal Daemon since February when v2.5.9 brought Panther Lake support, Intel Thermal Daemon 2.5.10 was tagged on Thursday...

Sheaves Merged For Linux 6.18 - Can Help With Better Performance

Phoronix - Fri, 10/03/2025 - 08:19
The Slab pull request was merged this evening for the ongoing Linux 6.18 merge window. Most notable with the Slab updates is the introduction of Sheaves...

Linux 6.18 To More Reliably Handle 255+ vCPUs On AMD EPYC Servers

Phoronix - Fri, 10/03/2025 - 04:55
For those wanting to run virtual machines with more than 255 vCPUs on modern AMD EPYC servers, an important code refactoring was merged for Linux 6.18 to ensure the proper topology information is exposed to KVM guest VMs...

Linus Torvalds Vents Over "Completely Crazy Rust Format Checking"

Phoronix - Fri, 10/03/2025 - 04:14
After Linus Torvalds yesterday shot down RISC-V big endian prospects for the Linux kernel, today he has used his authority to wage a war on "crazy" Rust code formatting as well as to critique poor text formatting...

ZLUDA 5 Released With An Offline Compiler For CUDA On Non-NVIDIA GPUs

Phoronix - Fri, 10/03/2025 - 02:32
ZLUDA 5 is out today as the newest version of this open-source software for running CUDA software on non-NVIDIA GPUs...

SiFive Premier P550, Apple M2 Pro/Max/Ultra DTs & Other SoC Changes For Linux 6.18

Phoronix - Thu, 10/02/2025 - 23:16
The many SoC and platform/machine DeviceTree additions have been merged for the Linux 6.18 kernel! This includes finally having mainline support for the SiFive HiFive Premier P550 RISC-V development board and its EIC7700 SoC, Apple M2 Pro / Max / Ultra DeviceTrees added and associated Apple Mac system support, various new Snapdragon X1 laptops now being supported by the mainline kernel and much more...

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