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AMD Preps Many Graphics Driver Updates For Linux 6.14, DRM Panic Support

Phoronix - Thu, 12/19/2024 - 04:29
AMD today sent out a first batch of "new stuff" feature patches to DRM-Next of new code for their AMDGPU kernel graphics driver and AMDKFD compute driver of material for the Linux 6.14 kernel cycle...

MemryX MX3 M.2 Module Delivers Nice AI Performance With A Great Software Experience

Phoronix - Thu, 12/19/2024 - 00:00
While there are a growing number of startups offering AI accelerators, many of them are more or less vaporware and the other big challenge even among those actually shipping products is their software stacks are very premature or an outright heaping mess. Surprisingly there's a company known as MemryX that was started out of the University of Michigan AI research that is both shipping actual hardware -- and at a decent price point -- and where the software stack is a pleasant experience that works on both Windows and Linux. Here are my initial experiences in testing out the MemryX M.2 module that features four of their in-house MX3 AI accelerator chips.

UEFI 2.11 Released With PI 1.9 Bringing LoongArch & RNG Additions

Phoronix - Wed, 12/18/2024 - 23:00
On Tuesday the UEFI Forum released the UEFI 2.11 specification alongside the Platform Initialization (PI) 1.9 specification...

EROFS Switches To Buffered I/O For File-Backed Mounts To Speed-Up Container Start Times

Phoronix - Wed, 12/18/2024 - 21:49
Back for the Linux 6.12 kernel EROFS introduced support for file-backed mounts to help with container and sandboxing use-cases. As part of the EROFS "fixes" merged yesterday to the Linux 6.13 kernel, file-backed mounts are now using buffered I/O by default to speed-up container start times...

Linux Looks To Drop Support For IBM Cell Blade Servers

Phoronix - Wed, 12/18/2024 - 19:47
The latest house cleaning of the Linux kernel is looking to drop support for IBM Cell Blade servers for those platforms from the better part of two decades ago with Cell BE processors that also had worked their way into some supercomputers at the time...

Intel Linux Graphics Driver To Do A Better Job Of Keeping Track Of Its Engine Busyness

Phoronix - Wed, 12/18/2024 - 19:23
A drm-intel-gt-next pull request was sent in today to DRM-Next of the latest batch of Intel kernel graphics driver updates destined for the upcoming Linux 6.14 cycle...

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