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Linux 6.4-rc3 Released Following A Rather Smooth Week

Phoronix - Mon, 05/22/2023 - 05:52
Linus Torvalds just released the Linux 6.4-rc3 kernel following a rather uneventful week...

Linux To Disable PCID For Intel Alder Lake & Raptor Lake Due To Issue With INVLPG

Phoronix - Mon, 05/22/2023 - 01:00
A patch is pending via x86/urgent to workaround an issue with Intel Alder Lake and Raptor Lake processors that is leaving the kernel developers for the time being to disable Process Context Identifiers (PCID) with these Intel mobile/desktop processors...

Arch Linux Completes Its Git Migration

Phoronix - Sun, 05/21/2023 - 20:42
Arch Linux on Friday began its Git repository migration and as part of that discontinuing SVN access and some changes to how their package repositories are setup. Arch Linux's Git migration has now been successfully completed...

RADV Driver Lands More Vulkan Overhead Reduction Optimizations

Phoronix - Sun, 05/21/2023 - 18:18
Timur Kristóf of Valve's Linux graphics driver team has landed a new set of patches for Mesa 23.2 that are further optimizing the Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" for lower overhead in some code paths...

LLVM's libc Gets Much Faster memcpy For RISC-V

Phoronix - Sun, 05/21/2023 - 18:08
Being merged into LLVM's libc library recently are an optimized memory copy function "memcpy" implementation for the RISC-V architecture...

Linux Adding Leakshield Driver Support For Reporting Liquid Cooling System Leaks

Phoronix - Sun, 05/21/2023 - 17:51
There is pending patches for adding support for the LEAKSHIELD device to the Aquacomputer Linux device driver. German PC component manufacturer Aquacomputer has been enjoying support for their various products on Linux and the latest seeing support in this open-source driver is the Aquacomputer Leakshield for reporting any water cooling leaks and other performance metrics around your cooling setup...

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