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Linux 6.15-rc3 To Bring AMD Zen 5 Microcode Protection, Intel Bartlett Lake ID Addition

Phoronix - Sat, 04/19/2025 - 08:23
Merged today ahead of the Linux 6.15-rc3 kernel test release on Sunday were the set of "x86 fixes" for the week. Of these x86 fixes are two notable changes in particular...

Slightly Faster AES-XTS Performance For AVX-512 CPUs Expected With Linux 6.16

Phoronix - Sat, 04/19/2025 - 01:55
In recent kernel releases there have been performance enhancements to the AES implementations and other cryptographic subsystem code for speeding up the performance on modern Intel and AMD processors. With Linux 6.16 there will be at least some additional small gains to find with Intel and AMD processors bearing AVX-512 when employing AES-XTS...

Linus On Git - i-programmer.info

Google News - Sat, 04/19/2025 - 00:11
Linus On Git  i-programmer.info

Initial Linux Gaming/Graphics Performance For The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti

Phoronix - Fri, 04/18/2025 - 22:30
Earlier this week the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti launched and there were launch-day Linux CUDA/OpenCL compute benchmarks on Phoronix. But for the Linux gaming performance tests we were waiting on a new supported driver release, which happened to be on launch day with the NVIDIA 575.51.02 Linux beta. Now that the gaming-ready Linux driver is available for the GeForce RTX 5060 series, here are some initial benchmarks of the PNY GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB up against other NVIDIA GeForce and AMD Radeon graphics cards using the newly-released Ubuntu 25.04.

Intel Xe Driver Adds Fan Speed Reporting For Linux 6.16, BMG Instability Being Debugged

Phoronix - Fri, 04/18/2025 - 20:47
Back in the Linux 6.12 kernel cycle the Intel i915 kernel graphics driver added fan speed reporting support. Finally for the upcoming Linux 6.16 cycle that fan speed reporting will also be working with the modern Intel Xe kernel graphics driver used by default with Intel's latest integrated and discrete graphics processors...

GCC 15.1 Compiler Release Candidate For Testing, GCC 15.1.0 Potentially Next Week

Phoronix - Fri, 04/18/2025 - 20:12
Following the GCC 15 code branching after working its way down to zero "P1" regressions of the highest priority, GCC 15.1 Release Candidate 1 is out today for testing...

Fedora 43 Eyes Changing CMake's Default Generator From Make To Ninja

Phoronix - Fri, 04/18/2025 - 18:42
With Fedora 42 having released earlier this week, more feature development work and planning around Fedora 43 is heating up. Another one of the early change proposals now filed for Fedora 43 is changing the CMake build system's default generator from Make to Ninja...

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