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Linux 6.7 Perf Adds Support For Zen 4 Unified Memory Controller Events

Phoronix - Tue, 11/07/2023 - 03:21
Going back to early last year saw AMD Linux engineers posting PerfMonV2 patches in preparation for Zen 4 processors. The PerfMonV2 updated performance monitoring capabilities with Zen 4 were merged last year and are supported with the latest EPYC 8004/9004 series processors. Coming only now though to Linux 6.7 is support for Unified Memory Controller (UMC) events as part of PerfMonV2...

GCC 14 Now Honors The -std=c23 & -std=gnu23 Compiler Options For C23

Phoronix - Tue, 11/07/2023 - 01:56
While the next revision of the C standard won't see its formal publishing until the 2024 calendar year, the ISO C standards committee already decided on keeping "C23" as the informal name for this next major C update. As such, with today's GCC 14 Git the -std=c23 compiler option for targeting C23 is now honored along with -std=gnu23 for the GNU dialect of C23...

systemd 255-rc1 Brings "Blue Screen of Death" Support & New Tool To Spawn VMs

Phoronix - Mon, 11/06/2023 - 22:04
Systemd 255-rc1 is out this morning and it's packed with even more features for this dominant Linux init system and a growing list of other system utilities. Systemd 255 even is introducing systemd-bsod as a "Blue Screen of Death" for displaying important error messages during boot failure, systemd-vmspawn as a new tool to spawn virtual machines, and other new features...

FFmpeg Patches Allow For "Fully Functional" Multi-Threaded CLI

Phoronix - Mon, 11/06/2023 - 21:28
After more than two years of work, a patch series was posted this weekend for a "fully functional" ffmpeg multi-threaded command-line application with multi-threaded transcoding pipelines being wired up...

Mozilla Firefox Development Finally Moving Entirely To Git

Phoronix - Mon, 11/06/2023 - 21:13
"FIREFOX DEVELOPMENT IS MOVING FROM MERCURIAL TO GIT," began the email today from Mozilla announcing Firefox is finally shifting over to Git!..

ASUS Screenpad Support, More MSI Laptops & Intel IFS Gen2 Changes In Linux 6.7

Phoronix - Mon, 11/06/2023 - 19:34
A wide variety of x86 platform driver changes were merged for the in-development Linux 6.7 kernel from new hardware support to improving the state of Linux on various Intel/AMD laptops...

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