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Linux Performance Patches Revved To Avoid Too Many Unnecessary Cross-CPU Wake-ups

Phoronix - Thu, 02/23/2023 - 04:45
A patch series started by Intel to improve the Linux kernel's fair scheduler code, which has also seen testing/feedback from AMD engineers and other stakeholders, continues to be improved upon. The focus of this patch series is on avoiding too many cross-CPU wake-ups when they are unnecessary. In doing so, these patches help enhance the Linux performance particularly on high core count systems...

Mobileye Provides Khronos With An Open-Source OpenCL Tensor & Tiling Library

Phoronix - Thu, 02/23/2023 - 03:47
Autonomous driving technology company Mobileye has contributed to The Khronos Group an open-source OpenCL tensor and tiling library...

AMDGPU X.Org Driver 23.0 Released With Few Fixes

Phoronix - Thu, 02/23/2023 - 02:40
AMD today released xf86-video-amdgpu 23.0 as their first X.Org DDX display driver update in one year...

Mesa's Rusticl OpenCL Driver Nearly Ready With AMD Radeon GPU Support

Phoronix - Thu, 02/23/2023 - 01:06
The Rusticl Rust-based OpenCL driver implementation that was merged last year into Mesa 22.3 has been an extremely promising effort. One of the issues though is that with the current mainline state inside Mesa has lacked support for working with AMD Radeon GPUs via the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver, but that is now coming to fruition...

Intel LKGS, AMD Automatic IBRS & Caching AMD Debug Registers Merged For Linux 6.3

Phoronix - Thu, 02/23/2023 - 00:23
The x86 CPU updates have been merged for the Linux 6.3 kernel that include a few new features worth mentioning for AMD and Intel customers...

Microsoft .NET Runtime Lands Initial Code For RISC-V Support

Phoronix - Wed, 02/22/2023 - 22:30
A Phoronix reader pointed out that there are initial code that landed for adding RISC-V processor support to Microsoft's .NET runtime...

HID-BPF Ready For Linux 6.3 Along With Steam Deck Controller Interface

Phoronix - Wed, 02/22/2023 - 20:30
The HID subsystem updates for Linux 6.3 have been submitted and they contain a number of exciting input updates for this spring 2023 kernel version from the introduction of HID-BPF to native Steam Deck controller interface handling...

Ubuntu Flavors/Spins Will No Longer Be Able To Install Flatpak By Default

Phoronix - Wed, 02/22/2023 - 19:25
While Ubuntu Linux hasn't provided Flatpak support out-of-the-box due to their preference of using their own Snap app packaging/distribution format, Ubuntu flavors/spins have to this point been able to pre-install Flatpak support if they desired. However, for the 23.04 "Lunar Lobster" cycle and moving forward, Ubuntu flavors will no longer be permitted to install Flatpak packages by default...

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