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EXT4 Ready With Some New Optimizations - Orphan_File, Moving Discard's Work

Phoronix - Fri, 09/03/2021 - 01:44
It's busy on the Linux file-system front for the 5.15 cycle woth Btrfs adding a degenerate RAID option along with performance improvements to big improvements for XFS and now comes the EXT4 updates...

NVIDIA Jetson TX2 NX + Other ARM Platforms Now Supported By Linux 5.15

Phoronix - Thu, 09/02/2021 - 21:10
The Arm SoC and platform updates have been merged for the in-development Linux 5.15 kernel...

The Big Batch Of New AMD RDNA2 PCI IDs Is Heading To Linux 5.15

Phoronix - Thu, 09/02/2021 - 19:50
Last week I wrote about AMD adding 17 more RDNA2 PCI IDs to their Linux driver which is rather unusual given the amount and the number of PCI IDs already found in the AMDGPU kernel driver for these latest-generation GPUs and the Radeon RX 6000 series already being mid-life. As noted in that article and seemingly in agreement with the various other industry articles following that Phoronix news, it seems to be for some sort of RDNA2 refresh likely. Now those new PCI IDs are being queued up for introduction in the current Linux 5.15 cycle...

Qt 6.2 LTS Will Nearly Be At Feature Parity To Qt 5.15

Phoronix - Thu, 09/02/2021 - 18:02
When the Qt 6.0 tool-kit debuted last year much of the early criticism stemmed around it not having all the modules/functionality ported over from Qt5 meanwhile The Qt Company was restricting newer Qt 5.15 LTS point releases to paying customers only. Since then the developers have been working to address the voids in Qt6 and with the upcoming Qt 6.2 as their next long-term support release, all of the important functionality should be in place...

AMD Van Gogh Audio Driver Lands For Linux 5.15

Phoronix - Thu, 09/02/2021 - 17:29
The sound/audio drivers have landed for the ongoing Linux 5.15 kernel driver...

Steam On Linux Continues Hovering Around The 1% Mark

Phoronix - Thu, 09/02/2021 - 17:05
In July -- the same month as Valve announcing the Steam Deck -- the Steam on Linux marketshare hit 1.0%. That 1.0% marketshare was a +0.14% bump and the highest seen in years since Steam on Linux's debut nearly a decade ago back when it commanded around a 2% marketshare...

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