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NVIDIA Engineer Fixes Early Linux 6.15 Performance Regression Affecting AMD GPU Drivers

Phoronix - Fri, 04/04/2025 - 18:55
Here is open-source at its finest with a NVIDIA Linux kernel engineer ultimately making a fix to a performance regression that came up for AMD integrated and discrete graphics when running on the early Linux 6.15 kernel code...

Linux Bring-Up For The Apple M4 Looks Like It Will Be "Rather Painful"

Phoronix - Fri, 04/04/2025 - 18:32
Sven Peter who remains one of the very active Asahi Linux developers and working on upstreaming various elements of Apple Silicon support for the Linux kernel has sent up warning flares around the eventual Apple M4 support...

MSEAL Protection Of System Mappings Merged For Linux 6.15

Phoronix - Fri, 04/04/2025 - 18:24
In addition to all of the memory management "MM" changes merged for the Linux 6.15 kernel, a secondary round of MM updates was submitted and subsequently merged for this next kernel version. Interesting here is using the recent MSEAL system call for being able to now seal system mappings...

Linux Patches Being Worked On For The HP EliteBook Ultra G1q

Phoronix - Fri, 04/04/2025 - 18:09
Yet another Qualcomm Snapdragon X1 Elite powered laptop seeing new DeviceTree patches for enabling Linux support is the HP EliteBook Ultra G1q...

LoongArch Enables A Few More Features With Linux 6.15

Phoronix - Fri, 04/04/2025 - 17:35
The Chinese LoongArch CPU architecture will enjoy slightly better support with the upcoming Linux 6.15 kernel...

5 Best Tools to Compare Text Files in Linux

Tecmint - Fri, 04/04/2025 - 16:21
The post 5 Best Tools to Compare Text Files in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

In the world of Linux system administration and development, comparing files is an essential task when you are updating configuration

The post 5 Best Tools to Compare Text Files in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

Coreboot 25.03 Released With Support For 22 More Motherboards

Phoronix - Fri, 04/04/2025 - 08:19
For those looking to replace their proprietary BIOS with the open-source Coreboot on a supported platform or are already doing so, Coreboot 25.03 is out today to provide the newest capabilities for this open-source BIOS/firmware solution...

AMD's AOMP 21.0 Switches To New Fortran Compiler, Delivers More Performance

Phoronix - Fri, 04/04/2025 - 07:00
AMD software engineers today released AOMP 21.0-0 as the newest snapshot of their LLVM/Clang compiler downstream focused on providing the best OpenMP/OpenACC GPU offloading support to AMD GPUs and Instinct accelerators via the ROCm software stack...

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