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NVIDIA Makes PhysX & Flow GPU Code Open-Source

Phoronix - Sun, 04/06/2025 - 22:00
As a win for the open-source community from NVIDIA, the company recently announced they are making their PhysX and Flow GPU-accelerated source code open-source...

Apple Z2 Touchscreen / Touch Bar Driver Lands In Linux 6.15

Phoronix - Sun, 04/06/2025 - 21:41
As we close out the Linux 6.15 merge window this weekend culminating with the Linux 6.15-rc1 release, the input driver updates were merged that include introducing the new Apple Z2 driver...

PostgreSQL Turns To AVX-512 For CRC32 Computations: Up To 3x Faster

Phoronix - Sun, 04/06/2025 - 19:00
In addition to the recent optional IO_uring support for the PostgreSQL database server on Linux and async I/O batch mode, another exciting performance improvement was merged this week. Landing in the PostgreSQL database server this week was support for using AVX-512 instructions for CRC32C computations...

Large Atomic Write Preparations Land In Linux 6.15

Phoronix - Sun, 04/06/2025 - 18:48
One of the early pull requests for Linux 6.15 that I've been meaning to highlight are the VFS iomap updates sent in by Microsoft engineer Christian Brauner. In particular, the VFS iomap pull brings preparations for large atomic writes and its upcoming usage by the XFS and EXT4 file-systems...

Linux 6.15 Performance Events Adds Support For AMD Zen 5 Load Latency Filtering

Phoronix - Sun, 04/06/2025 - 18:31
Merged a few days ago for the Linux 6.15 kernel were all of the performance events updates for which there are a few notable patches on the AMD and Intel side this cycle...

Linux 6.15 Kbuild Adds Support For LoongArch Debian & Faster gendwarfksyms

Phoronix - Sun, 04/06/2025 - 18:15
Among the pull requests coming in at the tail end of the Linux 6.15 merge window with 6.15-rc1 expected tonight are all of the Kbuild updates as the infrastructure for building out the kernel...

Linux 6.15 Crypto Subsystem Delivers Faster AES-CTR For AMD Zen 5 & Other x86_64 CPUs

Phoronix - Sun, 04/06/2025 - 02:00
The cryptography subsystem updates for the in-development Linux 6.15 merge window are quite exciting with some optimizations for modern x86_64 Intel/AMD processors enticing us the most...

RISC-V With Linux 6.15 Adds Support For BFloat16 "BF16" Instructions

Phoronix - Sat, 04/05/2025 - 22:00
Merged on Friday for the nearly-over Linux 6.15 merge window were the RISC-V CPU architecture updates for this next kernel release...

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