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FFmpeg FFV1 Vulkan Encoder Lands +35% Improvement For AMD, +50% For NVIDIA

Phoronix - Thu, 05/22/2025 - 20:00
FFmpeg developers have been working on Vulkan-accelerated FFV1 video encode/decode for that two decade old lossless video coding format. Merged this week to FFmpeg Git were more enhancements to their Vulkan-based FFV1 encoder and yielding big performance improvements for both AMD and NVIDIA graphics processors...

AMD Preparing For Some Nice GPU Reset Improvements Under Linux

Phoronix - Thu, 05/22/2025 - 18:14
Longtime AMDGPU driver engineer Alex Deucher has posted an interesting set of patches on Wednesday for enhancing the GPU reset experience under Linux with RDNA graphics cards...

MSI Linux Driver Aims For Parity To Windows App For The Claw Gaming Handhelds

Phoronix - Thu, 05/22/2025 - 18:02
A recently posted patch series for the MSI WMI platform driver is aiming this open-source driver to reach parity with MSI's official Windows application/driver for the MSI Claw gaming handheld systems...

Optimized AMD SEV Cache Flushing For KVM Looked At For Linux 6.17

Phoronix - Thu, 05/22/2025 - 17:55
A patch series is baking for likely upstreaming in the Linux v6.17 kernel cycle later in the year to optimize AMD CPU cache flushing when making use of Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) with KVM...

CentOS Now Providing Initial RISC-V Support

Phoronix - Thu, 05/22/2025 - 17:33
With Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 providing a RISC-V developer preview, CentOS is now in turn also providing initial RISC-V CPU ISA support...

How to Trigger and Fix a Linux Kernel Panic

Tecmint - Thu, 05/22/2025 - 14:00
The post How to Trigger and Fix a Linux Kernel Panic first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Imagine you’re happily working on your Linux system, maybe compiling a package, running updates, or just browsing and suddenly, your

The post How to Trigger and Fix a Linux Kernel Panic first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

AMD Releases ROCm 6.4.1 With RDNA4 GPU Support

Phoronix - Thu, 05/22/2025 - 03:30
Well, this is a pleasant surprise... Less than 24 hours after the AMD Computex 2025 keynote where better/more-timely ROCm support for client GPUs was brought up, AMD ROCm 6.4.1 is now officially released. With ROCm 6.4.1 there is formal support for RDNA4 GPUs, including the Radeon RX 9000 series consumer graphics cards...

libinput Preparing To Introduce A Lua-Based Plugin System For Modifying Devices/Events

Phoronix - Thu, 05/22/2025 - 02:30
The libinput input handling library that's used by both X11 and Wayland based environments on the Linux desktop is preparing to introduce a Lua-based plug-in system. Via Lua scripts it will be possible to modify evdev input events / input device behavior to deal with quirky/broken input devices and better workaround other problems that aren't currently easily addressable...

Linux Improvements Boost AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7000 Series Performance Since Launch

Phoronix - Thu, 05/22/2025 - 00:50
With the AMD Ryzen Threadripper 9000 series having just been announced at Computex, it's a good time to revisit the Ryzen Threadripper 7000 series performance ahead of those Zen 5 HEDT CPUs launching in July. In this article is a look at how the AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7970X 32-core and 7980X 64-core HEDT processors have evolved on the same system with the software updates released since their late 2023 debut. Overall the AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7970X and 7980X Linux performance is up by about 8% overall since launch day less than two years ago with the 64-core processor.

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