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Many Laptop Improvements In Linux 6.9, Much Faster HP Performance At Higher TDP

Phoronix - Sun, 03/17/2024 - 21:52
All of the x86 platform driver updates have been merged for the ongoing Linux 6.9 merge window. As usual, most of the x86 platform driver work is around better supporting various Intel Core and AMD Ryzen laptops under Linux...

CXL For Linux 6.9 Adds Error Injection, Native Memory Performance Enumeration

Phoronix - Sun, 03/17/2024 - 21:15
Intel continues leading the development of the Compute Express Link (CXL) subsystem for the Linux kernel while at least for the Linux 6.9 cycle are a few feature patch contributions from AMD...

XFS With Linux 6.9 Brings Online Repair Improvements

Phoronix - Sun, 03/17/2024 - 20:21
Joining the other file-systems seeing notable updates for Linux 6.9, the XFS file-system is seeing continued work around online repair support and other improvements...

Hyprland Wayland Compositor Celebrates Two Years With A New Release

Phoronix - Sun, 03/17/2024 - 18:48
The Hyprland customizable Wayland compositor with dynamic tiling is celebrating its two year milestone by issuing v0.37 (and a v0.37.1 paper bag release)...

Linux 6.9 Change Allows Old Macs Using Firewire To Enjoy Virtualization Support

Phoronix - Sun, 03/17/2024 - 18:38
The PCI subsystem updates were merged this week for the Linux 6.9 kernel. Among the changes are the usual code churn around device-specific quirks and tuning of the power management code...

SDL Storage API Merged For SDL 3.0

Phoronix - Sun, 03/17/2024 - 07:35
Going back years but documented in 2022 has been a desire for the SDL hardware/software abstraction layer popular with cross-platform games to offer an abstracted file-system API. That's finally come to reality with the new SDL_Storage interface added for SDL 3.0...

New Gestures Code Squeezes Into GNOME 46

Phoronix - Sun, 03/17/2024 - 01:23
While the GNOME 46 desktop is being released next week, one of the very last minute feature items being merged hit the Mutter codebase on Friday...

Mold Linker Jumps From v2.4.1 To v2.30 To Resolve GNU libtool Compatibility

Phoronix - Sun, 03/17/2024 - 01:06
Mold 2.30 is out this weekend as the newest version of this open-source high speed linker alternative to GNU Gold/LD and LLVM LLD...

RadeonSI OpenGL CTS Tests Running ~30% Faster With Mesa 24.1

Phoronix - Sat, 03/16/2024 - 21:58
Open-source AMD Linux graphics driver engineer Marek Olšák who is known for his focus on the Gallium3D code has shown no signs of slowing down when it comes to discovering new areas to further enhance the performance and tune the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver...

Initial IBM Power11 Enablement Begins With Linux 6.9

Phoronix - Sat, 03/16/2024 - 21:35
As noted a month ago that IBM was starting on Power11 CPU/platform enablement for the mainline Linux kernel, indeed the first batch of Power11 code has now been merged for the in-development Linux 6.9 kernel...

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