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OpenZFS 2.2.8 Released With Newer Linux Kernel Support

Phoronix - Fri, 06/13/2025 - 01:27
While OpenZFS 2.3 has been stable for several months, for those still relying on the OpenZFS 2.2 series there is a new stable point release...

AMD Announces Instinct MI350X & MI355X With Fully Upstream Open-Source Linux Support

Phoronix - Fri, 06/13/2025 - 01:11
AMD at its Advancing AI Day event in San Jose announced the Instinct MI350X and MI355X accelerators. Exciting open-source fans will be that the Instinct MI350 series features fully open-source driver support and that is already mainline within the Linux kernel...

OpenGL 4.6 Now Exposed For Old AMD Evergreen & Cayman GPUs On Linux Driver

Phoronix - Fri, 06/13/2025 - 00:20
Merged yesterday for Mesa 25.2 is an exciting change for those still making use of vintage Radeon GPUs... OpenGL 4.6 support is now exposed for the Radeon R600g Gallium3D driver...

Measuring The Performance Cost To AMD Memory Guard With Ryzen AI PRO CPUs

Phoronix - Thu, 06/12/2025 - 20:00
While the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 395 and Ryzen AI Max+ 395 are very similar processors just as the Ryzen PRO processors are to other non-PRO parts, one of the differences with the AMD PRO Technologies come down to AMD Memory Guard providing full system memory encryption. From the HP BIOS with the ZBook Ultra G1a there is a convenient toggle for this full memory encryption support and thus I decided to carry out some benchmarks to measure the performance cost to this memory encryption feature on this AMD Strix Halo SoC.

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