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Intel RAR TLB Invalidation Being Worked On For Linux - Alternative To AMD INVLPGB

Phoronix - Tue, 05/06/2025 - 18:32
Merged for the Linux 6.15 kernel was AMD INVLPGB support for broadcast TLB invalidation on recent Zen cores. AMD INVLPGB use by the Linux kernel can provide for some nice performance gains while now similar support for Intel processors is coming via a kernel patch series working on Intel RAR TLB invalidation support...

LVFS/Fwupd Talked Up For Linux Servers & Being What Customers Want

Phoronix - Tue, 05/06/2025 - 18:25
Lead LVFS/Fwupd developer Richard Hughes of Red Hat was at the PremDay on-premise computing conference in Paris to talk up this open-source firmware updating solution and being what customers want. The presentation video and slides are now available for those needing additional material in helping sell your organization on the benefits of LVFS/Fwupd...

IBM LinuxONE Emperor 5 Announced For Linux Servers Powered By Telum II

Phoronix - Tue, 05/06/2025 - 17:59
Last month IBM announced the z17 mainframe powered by Telum II processors and today they announced the IBM LinuxONE Emperor 5 servers...

IBM LinuxONE 5 - IBM

Google News - Tue, 05/06/2025 - 12:52

FEX 2505 Released With Many Fixes For Running x86_64 Binaries On Linux AArch64

Phoronix - Tue, 05/06/2025 - 04:51
FEX 2505 is out today as the newest version of this user-space software that enables running x86_64 binaries on ARM64/AArch64 Linux hosts with great speed that a number of games and applications are enjoying much success with this emulator...

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