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AMD Closing In On IOMMU SVA Support For Linux

Phoronix - Fri, 11/10/2023 - 03:29
The IOMMU changes for Linux 6.7 aren't particularly noteworthy besides adding SMMUv2 support for the Qualcomm SDM670 and SM7150 SoCs. But the IOMMU updates also take the kernel one step away from supporting Shared Virtual Addressing (SVA) on AMD platforms in the near future...

Valve Announces The Steam Deck OLED With Upgraded Display, 6nm APU & Larger Battery

Phoronix - Fri, 11/10/2023 - 01:56
Valve just announced the Steam Deck OLED as an upgraded version of their Steam Deck handheld Linux gaming device...

OpenZFS Lands Exciting RAIDZ Expansion Feature

Phoronix - Thu, 11/09/2023 - 23:31
In addition to the OpenZFS code this week landing sync parallelism to improve write performance scalability, another shiny new feature was also merged: RAIDZ expansion...

Cloud-Hypervisor 36 Brings AMD CPU Topology Support, AIO Backend For Block Devices

Phoronix - Thu, 11/09/2023 - 21:51
Cloud Hypervisor 36 has been released as this Rust-written VMM that started out as an Intel open-source project that since was folded into the Linux Foundation umbrella with support from Microsoft, Arm, and other vendors. More recently even the likes of AMD and Ampere Computing have been onboard with this cloud and security focused virtualization hypervisor...

Linux 6.7 MM Brings Performance Optimizations, Better Handling For Unaccepted Memory

Phoronix - Thu, 11/09/2023 - 21:40
Andrew Morton last week sent out all of the memory management "MM" changes for the Linux 6.7 kernel for which there is a lot of code churn...

TuxClocker 1.3 Preparing Additional AMD GPU Voltage & Memory Controls

Phoronix - Thu, 11/09/2023 - 21:24
Since the release of TuxClocker 1.0 back in September, this open-source and independently-developed overclocking/performance utility for Linux systems has been quick to tack on new features and rolling out new versions. A release candidate for TuxClocker 1.3 was issued a few days ago with yet more AMD graphics card controls...

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