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Intel Graphics Compiler 1.0.17193.4 Released With Initial Battlemage Support

Phoronix - Wed, 07/24/2024 - 21:53
Intel today released IGC 1.0.17193.4 as the newest version of the Intel Graphics Compiler that is used for their compute stack on Windows/Linux as well as by their Windows graphics driver for shader compilation...

AMD Reveals More Zen 5 CPU Core Details

Phoronix - Wed, 07/24/2024 - 21:00
As a follow-up to last week's AMD Zen 5 overview with the Ryzen 9000 series and Ryzen AI 300 series, today the embargo has lifted on some additional Zen 5 CPU core details.

F2FS, exFAT & Btrfs File-System Changes In Linux 6.11

Phoronix - Wed, 07/24/2024 - 20:45
While not as notable as the nice EXT4 performance optimization making it into Linux 6.11 or features like XFS real-time FITRIM and self-healing Bcachefs on read I/O errors, the Bcachefs, F2FS, and Btrfs file-systems saw smaller updates for the Linux 6.11 kernel cycle...

Linux 6.11 Upstream Now Defaults To A Better SATA Link Power Management Policy

Phoronix - Wed, 07/24/2024 - 18:58
It's not too often that the ATA pull request for a new Linux kernel merge window has much worth mentioning. With Linux 6.11 there is a change to the kernel defaults worth noting over the default SATA link power management policy. In this case most Linux distributions have been setting a better default themselves and is now a case of the upstream kernel defaults catching up...

Mesa 24.3 Radeon VCN Adds HDR Metadata Support For AV1 Encoder

Phoronix - Wed, 07/24/2024 - 18:42
The latest video acceleration improvements to report on with the open-source AMD Radeon driver front is support in Mesa 24.3-devel for passing HDR metadata in the AV1 encoder...

Printk Patches For Linux 6.11 Further Work Toward Threaded Console Printing

Phoronix - Wed, 07/24/2024 - 18:35
The latest printk patches have been submitted and merged for the Linux 6.11 kernel. The printk updates take another step toward the long-in-development work around threaded console printing / non-blocking "NBCON" consoles as the last major step to allow the real-time "RT" kernel patches to land...

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