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Intel Xe Driver Adds Fan Speed Reporting For Linux 6.16, BMG Instability Being Debugged

Phoronix - Fri, 04/18/2025 - 20:47
Back in the Linux 6.12 kernel cycle the Intel i915 kernel graphics driver added fan speed reporting support. Finally for the upcoming Linux 6.16 cycle that fan speed reporting will also be working with the modern Intel Xe kernel graphics driver used by default with Intel's latest integrated and discrete graphics processors...

GCC 15.1 Compiler Release Candidate For Testing, GCC 15.1.0 Potentially Next Week

Phoronix - Fri, 04/18/2025 - 20:12
Following the GCC 15 code branching after working its way down to zero "P1" regressions of the highest priority, GCC 15.1 Release Candidate 1 is out today for testing...

Fedora 43 Eyes Changing CMake's Default Generator From Make To Ninja

Phoronix - Fri, 04/18/2025 - 18:42
With Fedora 42 having released earlier this week, more feature development work and planning around Fedora 43 is heating up. Another one of the early change proposals now filed for Fedora 43 is changing the CMake build system's default generator from Make to Ninja...

LVFS/Fwupd Is Hoping To Encourage More Hardware Vendors To Provide Financial Backing

Phoronix - Fri, 04/18/2025 - 18:33
The Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) with the Fwupd client makes it wonderfully easy to enjoy seamless system UEFI and device/peripheral firmware updates under Linux. LVFS is backed by a growing number of major OEMs/ODMs and serves up millions of firmware files. But they are in need of more financial resources from the biggest hardware vendors...

Intel Compute Runtime 25.13.33276.16 Brings New Performance Tweaks, More Xe3 Bits

Phoronix - Fri, 04/18/2025 - 18:20
Following this week's updated Intel Graphics Compiler release, a new version of the Intel Compute Runtime was also published in providing OpenCL and oneAPI Level Zero GPU compute support on Windows and Linux systems...

Intel SST-TF Prepares For Future CPUs With More Cores

Phoronix - Fri, 04/18/2025 - 18:07
Patches for Linux posted on Thursday by Intel prepare for a new version of Speed Select Technology Turbo Frequency (SST-TF) handling for future processors with more cores...

How to Find a Process Name Using PID Number in Linux

Tecmint - Fri, 04/18/2025 - 14:00
The post How to Find a Process Name Using PID Number in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

In this article, we will look at how to find a process name by its process identification number (PID). Before

The post How to Find a Process Name Using PID Number in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

Open-Source RADV Driver Begins Working To Improve AMD RDNA4 Ray-Tracing Performance

Phoronix - Fri, 04/18/2025 - 08:30
While the Radeon RX 9070 series as the first of the AMD RDNA4 graphics cards do perform well on Linux, the one area the performance has been less enticing remains with Vulkan ray-tracing while using the Mesa RADV driver. For example, AMDVLK vs. RADV on the RX 9070 series shows the Mesa driver struggling with ray-tracing compared to the official AMD driver. But the good news is there's a concerted effort now to improve the AMD RDNA4 ray-tracing performance with RADV...

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