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Linux 6.13 Very Exciting With New Feature Code For AMD EPYC Zen 5, Intel Panther Lake

Phoronix - Fri, 11/15/2024 - 23:49
While Linux 6.12 should be out this weekend with its many exciting features, following that will mark the start of the Linux 6.13 kernel cycle with what will be the first stable kernel release of 2025... Already there is a lot of exciting feature work expected to land during the Linux 6.13 merge window...

GNOME Mutter Switches To High Priority KMS Thread To Avoid Crashes

Phoronix - Fri, 11/15/2024 - 22:46
The GNOME Mutter compositor has switched its KMS thread priority from a real-time value over to high priority to workaround a situation where the GNOME Shell / Mutter could crash or see its process killed...

Linux 6.12 Preps For Release With Real-Time, Sched_Ext, Stable Xe2 & Raspberry Pi 5

Phoronix - Fri, 11/15/2024 - 22:30
The Linux 6.12 kernel is expected to be released this coming Sunday, 17 November, barring any last minute issues that would force the stable kernel to be diverted to the following Sunday. Linux 6.12 is delivering many exciting new features and beyond that it's all the more exciting with it expected to be this year's Long-Term Support (LTS) kernel version...

Google Posts Patches Further Speeding Up Linux Async Device Suspend & Resume

Phoronix - Fri, 11/15/2024 - 21:25
Google engineer Saravana Kannan has posted a set of patches to better optimize async device suspend and resume handling within the Linux kernel. With thesep atches there are "significant improvements" to async device suspend/resume with testing being done on a Google Pixel 6 smartphone but other devices stand to benefit too...

AMD Releases ZenDNN 5.0 For Deep Neural Network Library Optimized For Zen 5 EPYC

Phoronix - Fri, 11/15/2024 - 19:50
AMD ZenDNN 5.0 was rolled out this morning as the newest version of this deep neural network library that is compatible with Intel's oneDNN APIs and infrastructure. ZenDNN 5.0 is now optimized for AMD Zen 5 processors such as the EPYC 9005 series. ZenDNN 5.0 also ships performance enhancements for generative large language models (LLMs) with its PyTorch plug-in...

GCC 15 Adds Option For Arm Guarded Control Stack "GCS" Code Generation

Phoronix - Fri, 11/15/2024 - 19:39
GCC 15 feature development is soon wrapping up to focus on bug fixing before releasing GCC 15.1 as stable in the early months of 2025. One of the latest features to make it in the compiler codebase is code generation support around Arm Guarded Control Stack (GCS) functionality...

Linux Patches Add Support For New "Phone Link" Hotkey On Latest ThinkPads

Phoronix - Fri, 11/15/2024 - 19:23
Patches posted on Thursday for the Linux kernel add support for the newest hotkey being found on Lenovo ThinkPad laptops... The "Phone Link" hotkey for launching the Microsoft Phone Link software for linking your Android/iOS smartphone to your laptop. This hotkey can be adapted for similar purposes on Linux...

SDL3 Improves Steam Controller Support, Now Enabled By Default

Phoronix - Fri, 11/15/2024 - 19:08
A number of Steam Controller improvements have been merged for SDL, this widely-used hardware/software abstraction layer that is common to cross platform games. Among the latest Steam Controller improvements in SDL are enabling the support by default...

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