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LoongArch Adds Simultaneous Multi-Threading, SIMD/Vector Extensions

Phoronix - Fri, 06/30/2023 - 18:25
China's Loongson continues preparing the software support for their upcoming 3A6000 processors that will feature several new capabilities over their inaugural LoongArch-based 3A5000 series...

Cloud Hypervisor 33 Released With TDX Fix, New D-Bus API

Phoronix - Fri, 06/30/2023 - 18:06
Cloud Hypervisor has advanced quite nicely in the half-year it's been around since Intel software engineers began writing this Rust-based cloud-focused virtualization hypervisor. This VMM project has since become more independent and regularly receiving code contributions from the likes of Arm, Microsoft, and Tencent while also gaining the support of companies like AMD and Ampere. On Thursday marked the release of Cloud Hypervisor 33...

Linux 6.5 Should Spend Less Time Waiting On PCIe Devices

Phoronix - Fri, 06/30/2023 - 17:47
The PCI subsystem updates have been submitted for the ongoing Linux 6.5 development...

Rocky Linux Shares How They May Continue To Obtain The RHEL Source Code

Phoronix - Fri, 06/30/2023 - 04:38
Following Red Hat's decision earlier this month to limit access to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux source code and that leading to downstreams scrambling to figure out their paths forward to avoid tracking CentOS Stream instead and still aiming to offer 1:1 RHEL compatibility without being restricted by the Red Hat Customer Portal, the Rocky Linux distribution today expressed a few of the ideas they are considering...

Alibaba T-Head TH1520 RISC-V CPU & A Few New Arm SoCs Ready For Linux 6.5

Phoronix - Fri, 06/30/2023 - 04:24
The Arm (and RISC-V) SoC updates have been submitted for merging to the Linux 6.5 kernel. Additions this cycle include an exciting RISC-V processor now supported, NVIDIA Tegra234 "Orin" upstream additions, and other new SoCs and devices/boards being upstreamed...

AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme: Windows vs. Linux CPU Performance

Phoronix - Fri, 06/30/2023 - 02:21
As part of our Linux-focused look at the ASUS ROG Ally handheld, last week I provided a number of Windows 11 vs. Linux gaming performance on this gaming handheld with RDNA3 graphics found on the AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme SoC. Today's testing is not about the gaming but looking more at the general CPU performance for this Zen 4 powered SoC.

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