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CXL Address Translation Support For AMD Zen 5 Sees Linux Patches

Phoronix - Thu, 01/16/2025 - 19:48
A set of Linux kernel patches posted by AMD engineers last week are working on enhancing the CXL address translation support between the HPA decoder and system physical memory addresses. These patches get that CXL address translation support working for the recently launched AMD EPYC 9005 "Turin" Zen 5 server processors...

Expanding Web Camera Support Among Newer Intel Laptops Planned For Fedora 42

Phoronix - Thu, 01/16/2025 - 19:13
Red Hat engineer Hans de Goede wrote a blog post a few days ago around the Intel IPU6 and newer web camera support still being a challenge on Linux. While various Intel IPU6 open-source code has been upstreamed, there remain differences with a number of laptops currently available still not working out-of-the-box for web camera support on Linux. Hans de Goede has now initiated a change proposal for Fedora 42 to take care of more Intel web camera issues...

GCC Goes Ahead With The ARM64 ILP32 Deprecation

Phoronix - Thu, 01/16/2025 - 19:02
As a follow-up to the recent news around GCC considering deprecating ARM64 ILP32 support, the free software developers have indeed decided to move ahead in deprecating this 32-bit ABI for ARM64...

Jellyfin: The Ultimate Free Media Server for Linux Users

Tecmint - Thu, 01/16/2025 - 13:54
The post Jellyfin: The Ultimate Free Media Server for Linux Users first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

If you’re looking for a free, open-source way to manage and stream your media files on Linux, Jellyfin is the

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Fedora 42 Is Looking At Switching To EROFS For Its Live Media

Phoronix - Thu, 01/16/2025 - 09:35
A change proposal filed today for the in-development Fedora 42 is looking at making use of the EROFS file-system for all of the live media images...

Tiny Corp Nearing "Completely Sovereign" Compute Stack For AMD GPUs With Tinygrad

Phoronix - Thu, 01/16/2025 - 05:54
George Hotz' Tiny Corp that develops the Tinygrad neural network framework and sells the Tinybox NVIDIA and AMD powered AI workstations is nearing a "completely sovereign" software stack for GPU compute on AMD...

Intel THC Drivers To Be Submitted For Linux 6.14

Phoronix - Thu, 01/16/2025 - 03:49
The upcoming Linux 6.14 kernel cycle is poised to introduce support for Intel THC... The Touch Host Controller IP block found in the PCH of modern Intel laptops for dealing with touchscreen, touchpads, and similar functionality...

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