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AMD Announces Open-Source "Schola" Library For Reinforcement Learning

Phoronix - Thu, 02/06/2025 - 00:57
AMD announced today the release of Schola 1.0 as an open-source reinforcement learning library that is being made available under an MIT license and as part of their GPUOpen software collection for helping game developers...

Linux 6.14 Features Include The AMDXDNA Ryzen AI Driver, NTSYNC, Uncached Buffered I/O & Much More

Phoronix - Thu, 02/06/2025 - 00:30
Now that the Linux 6.14 merge window wrapped up this past weekend with the release of Linux 6.14-rc1, here is a recap of all the great new features, hardware enablement, and other improvements to find with this kernel.

AMD Broadcast TLB Invalidation Patches For Linux Updated, Intel RAR Eyed Next

Phoronix - Wed, 02/05/2025 - 23:29
One of the set of patches for the Linux kernel that we have been looking forward to but that wasn't wrapped up in time for the recent Linux v6.14 merge window was the work enabling use of the AMD INVLPGB instruction on Zen 3 CPUs and newer for broadcast TLB invalidation. This can lead to a nice performance bump in some workloads while the eighth iteration of those patches were posted overnight...

Linux Foundation Announces The SEAPATH 1.0 Hypervisor

Phoronix - Wed, 02/05/2025 - 23:05
The Linux Foundation by way of their LF Energy initiative announced today the release of SEAPATH 1.0, a security-hardened real-time hypervisor...

Red Hat Developing "F-UKI" For Handling Firmware With Confidential VMs

Phoronix - Wed, 02/05/2025 - 21:55
Red Hat engineer Anirban Sinha presented at FOSDEM 2025 last weekend in Brussels on F-UKI, a new project being worked on at Red Hat as part of the confidential computing push for loading guest firmware within a Unified Kernel Image (UKI) for confidential VMs...

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