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AMD Announces The AMDGPU Composition Stack "ACS" For Advanced Linux Desktop Features

Phoronix - Wed, 01/22/2025 - 23:12
An unexpected surprise today are AMD Linux software engineers announcing a new project a bit further outside the scope of their open-source graphics drivers... The AMDGPU Composition Stack "ACS" is for delivering new advanced features atop Wayland for bettering the Linux desktop display capabilities...

Very Promising Linux Patch Optimizes TLB Flushes During Page Reclamation

Phoronix - Wed, 01/22/2025 - 23:01
Google engineer Vinay Banakar sent out a patch this week for the Linux kernel's memory management code to optimize TLB flushes during page reclaim and are showing very promising results...

Linux's KUnit Will Now Default To Using Hardware Acceleration For Faster Testing

Phoronix - Wed, 01/22/2025 - 21:51
Surprisingly a change not made years ago, the Linux Kernel Unit Testing "KUnit" framework with the Linux 6.14 kernel is set to use hardware acceleration by default for faster testing where available...

Linux 6.14 Working To Make It Less Painful Debugging Early Boot Issues

Phoronix - Wed, 01/22/2025 - 19:55
Linux kernel developers are working to make it easier to debug early boot issues such as Kexec failures as currently dealing with such situations can be a frustrating and time consuming headache for figuring out the problems prior to the kernel being fully brought online...

AMD Releases Orochi 3.0 For HIP & CUDA API Switching At Run-Time

Phoronix - Wed, 01/22/2025 - 19:35
Back in April 2022 was the announcement by AMD's GPUOpen team of Orochi as a library for HIP/CUDA API run-time switching. Making use of Orochi allows for dynamically targeting either AMD HIP or NVIDIA CUDA at run-time to ease the distribution/usage of apps wanting to target both AMD and NVIDIA GPUs from the same software build. Today Orochi 3.0 was released...

LLVM Lands Initial Support For IBM SystemZ "arch15" Target: IBM z17 / Telum II

Phoronix - Wed, 01/22/2025 - 19:22
Merged this week into the LLVM compiler codebase is initial support for "arch15" within the SystemZ back-end. Arch15 likely correlates to the IBM z17 mainframes with Telum II processors...

Important Changes To Intel TDX Coming With Linux 6.14

Phoronix - Wed, 01/22/2025 - 19:14
Important code restructuring to the Intel Trust Domain Extensions (TDX) code is landing for the Linux 6.14 kernel to make it more robust moving forward and preparing for future features around this confidential computing / trusted execution environment (TEE) functionality built into the newest Xeon processors...

Qt 6.9 Toolkit Beta 2 Now Available For Testing

Phoronix - Wed, 01/22/2025 - 18:57
The second of three planned betas for the Qt 6.9 cross-platform UI toolkit is now available for testing ahead of the planned stable release in March...

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