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AMD Instinct MI350P: PCIe Add-In Card For High Performance Open-Source AI/Compute

Phoronix - Thu, 05/07/2026 - 21:00
While there is the AMD Instinct MI400 series coming this year, today AMD announced an interesting and arguably overdue offering for the Instinct MI350 series: the MI350P. The AMD Instinct MI350P is a PCIe add-in-card to add Instinct MI350 compute capabilities to existing PCIe 5.0 air-cooled servers as an alternative to the Open Accelerator Module (OAM) currently used by the Instinct MI350 series.

Linux Drivers For The AMD Elan SoCs From The 1990s On Track For Retirement

Phoronix - Thu, 05/07/2026 - 20:20
Merged for the current Linux 7.1 cycle was beginning to phase out the Intel 486 processor support from the mainline kernel moving forward. That initial step with Linux 7.1 was dropping the various Kconfig options to allow compiling Linux kernel builds for targeting various i486 platforms. As part of that, the AMD Elan SoC configuration patches were dropped. The next step is proceeding on the AMD Elan side with beginning to remove the actual driver code...

KDE Plasma 6.7 To Provide A Much Better Experience For CPU-Based Rendering

Phoronix - Thu, 05/07/2026 - 18:29
KDE developer Xaver Hugl has whipped up another nice improvement for the upcoming Plasma 6.7 desktop release. Due to QtWidgets still relying on CPU-based rendering and finding the performance subpar with Wayland shared memory "wl_shm" usage, Xaver has leveraged UDMABUF for avoiding excess buffer copies to provide a much more fluid experience when dealing with CPU-based rendering / shared memory usage on KDE under Wayland...

New GCC Back-End Proposed For WebAssembly

Phoronix - Thu, 05/07/2026 - 18:17
When it comes to compiling C/C++ code to WebAssembly (WASM), LLVM/Clang and other LLVM-based tooling has dominated the space. Nearly a decade ago was a proposal for a GCC WebAssembly back-end that ultimately never ended up being merged while now there is a new proposal for a WebAssembly back-end for the GNU toolchain...

SR-IOV Support Appears To Be Coming For Next-Gen Ryzen AI NPUs

Phoronix - Thu, 05/07/2026 - 18:06
AMD recently upstreamed Linux support for their next-gen AIE4 NPU. That next-gen AMD NPU support is expected to premiere in Linux 7.2 while this week an interesting new patch series has surfaced for SR-IOV support with those upcoming neural processing units...

How to Create a Test File of Any Size in Linux

Tecmint - Thu, 05/07/2026 - 11:40
The post How to Create a Test File of Any Size in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

You need a 1GB test file to benchmark your disk, fill a partition to a specific threshold, or simulate a

The post How to Create a Test File of Any Size in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

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