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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...

SilverStone XED120S-WS Offers Mega Cooling For 4U Intel/AMD Workstations & Servers

Phoronix - Wed, 12/18/2024 - 17:00
A few weeks back I reviewed the SilverStone XE360-SP5 and XE04-SP5 cooling solutions catering to AMD EPYC 9004/9005 Socket SP5 processors. These coolers worked well with 400 Watt EPYC processors and especially the XE360-SP5 all-in-one liquid cooling was very performant and practical with today's server CPU TDPs ever increasing. After that SilverStone mentioned to me they had a new heatsink that could run up to 13 degrees cooler than the XE04-SP5 4U air cooler... Talk about intriguing. Meet the new SilverStone XED120S-WS for high-end air cooling for up to 450 Watt processors while working with multiple Intel and AMD CPU sockets.

Lenovo Legion Linux Driver Posted For Handling Power/Performance Settings

Phoronix - Wed, 12/18/2024 - 15:00
A patch posted on Tuesday for the Linux kernel would introduce new Lenovo Legion WMI driver options for supporting Lenovo Legion laptops as well as the Legion Go handheld gaming console to support different power/performance settings...

AOMP 20.0-1 GPU Compiler Rebased Against ROCm 6.3, Brings SPIR-V JIT Offloading

Phoronix - Wed, 12/18/2024 - 13:00
AOMP 20.0-1 was released on Tuesday as the newest version of this LLVM/Clang downstream focused on shipping the latest AMD patches around Radeon/Instinct OpenMP accelerator offload support...

Linux Patched For Unsafe Xen Behavior Around CPU Speculative Attack Protections

Phoronix - Wed, 12/18/2024 - 05:36
Merged today to the Linux kernel are fixes for two vulnerabilities with the Xen hypervisor. One of them concerns a malicious network backend being able to crash a guest after a suspend/resume cycle of a Linux guest. The other more pressing issue addressed is a Xen hypercall page being unsafe against speculative CPU attacks...

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