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The Open-Source AMD GPU Linux Kernel Graphics Driver Nears 5.8 Million Lines

Phoronix - Sun, 08/04/2024 - 22:47
Last August I wrote an article about the open-source AMD GPU kernel driver crossing 5 million lines of code -- including their overzealous header files -- and following the recent Linux 6.11 merge window curiosity got the best of me with how much larger the kernel driver is now that the initial RDNA4 support is merged... Well, it's about to cross 5.8 million lines, or about a 16% increase just over the past year...

Linux 6.11-rc2 To Recognize More AMD Zen 5 CPUs

Phoronix - Sun, 08/04/2024 - 21:34
Ahead of the Linux 6.11-rc2 kernel due for release later today there is the weekly "x86/urgent" material to merge...

New Intel Linux Patches Continue Working To Improve Hybrid CPU Task Placement

Phoronix - Sun, 08/04/2024 - 18:58
Building off some "request for comments" patches sent out in April, a new set of patches appeared on Friday for the Intel P-State Linux driver for setting the asymmetric CPU capacity on hybrid systems. This is another attempt at helping to improve the Linux kernel scheduler behavior in ensuring optimal task placement between Intel Core processors having a mix of P and E cores. This patch series in particular helps when SMT / Hyper Threading support is disabled or like with upcoming Lunar Lake processors where there is no HT support...

Btrfs Stakeholders In Fedora Eye Bootable Snapshots & Transparent Encryption

Phoronix - Sun, 08/04/2024 - 18:30
It's been four years now that the Btrfs file-system has been the default for Fedora on the desktop. The Fedora and Btrfs love affair has been going well and is only getting better with more integration enhancements planned and a special interest group (SIG) now getting off the ground for furthering these efforts...

Rust-Written Redox OS Now Has A Working Web Server

Phoronix - Sun, 08/04/2024 - 18:21
The Redox OS project that is a from scratch open-source operating system written in the Rust programming language now has a working web server, among other improvements achieved during the month of July...

Linux 6.12 To Drop Old Code That Slows Down CPU Frequency Polling

Phoronix - Sun, 08/04/2024 - 01:00
The Linux 6.12 kernel cycle later this year has a change coming that will impact users of the "Schedutil" CPU frequency scaling governor. This change is dropping the "LATENCY_MULTIPLIER" that has been within the kernel code the past two decades to slowdown how frequent the CPU frequency evaluation occurs. In turn the revised logic can allow for that CPUFreq frequency re-evaluation to occur more often...

Immutable Version Of Arch-Based Manjaro Linux Available For Testing

Phoronix - Sat, 08/03/2024 - 22:01
For those intrigued by the likes of the likes of Fedora Silverblue, Vanilla OS, and NixOS for an immutable Linux distribution but desiring something based on Arch Linux, Manjaro Linux has an immutable variant now available for testing...

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