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AMD's Kernel Compute Driver "AMDKFD" Can Now Be Enabled On RISC-V

Phoronix - Fri, 06/06/2025 - 18:40
Following all of the Linux kernel graphics driver features merged last week for the Linux 6.16 kernel, sent out this morning were the initial batch of fixes to the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) code. Besides fixes to these graphics / display / accelerator drivers, there is one new feature: the AMDKFD kernel compute driver can now be enabled on RISC-V systems...

Apple M2 Pro / Max / Ultra PCIe Support Upstreamed In Linux 6.16

Phoronix - Fri, 06/06/2025 - 18:24
The many PCI subsystem changes have been merged for the in-development Linux 6.16 merge window...

Linux 6.16 NFS Client Exposes LOCALIO State Via sysfs

Phoronix - Fri, 06/06/2025 - 18:09
In addition to the NFS server changes for Linux 6.16 with now supporting larger I/O block sizes, the Network File-System (NFS) client changes were merged this week for this next kernel version...

More KVM Changes Merged For Linux 6.16: AMD "ALLOWED_SEV_FEATURES" Merged

Phoronix - Fri, 06/06/2025 - 17:55
Following the Intel TDX host support for KVM being merged for the Linux 6.16 merge window, another batch of Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) changes were merged for the ongoing Linux 6.16 merge window...

Mesa's Rusticl Lands OpenCL FP16 Half-Float Support

Phoronix - Fri, 06/06/2025 - 08:11
Mesa's modern Rust-written OpenCL driver for Gallium3D "Rusticl" has closed one of the few remaining gaps with the former Clover OpenCL state tracker. Merged today for Mesa 25.2 is native FP16 support...

Linux 6.15 & Early Linux 6.16 Delivering Some Additional Gains For AMD Strix Halo

Phoronix - Fri, 06/06/2025 - 01:20
As some extra benchmarks to put out today for the Phoronix.com 21st birthday, there is some additional data points to share on AMD Strix Halo when using Linux 6.15 stable and the early development state of Linux 6.16 Git ahead of its v6.16-rc1 tagging this weekend. The Linux kernel performance is moving in the right direction at least with this round of testing using the HP ZBook Ultra G1a with Ryzen AI Max+ PRO SoC...

Proposed Persistent Cache For Block Devices "PCACHE" Ported To DM Framework

Phoronix - Fri, 06/06/2025 - 00:00
An initial patch series sent back out in April proposed PCACHE as a persistent memory cache for block devices. PCACHE was born out of the CXL block device driver and brings some benefits over the likes of BCache and dm-writecache...

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