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Intel Linux Patch Would Report Outdated CPU Microcode As A Security Vulnerability

Phoronix - Fri, 11/08/2024 - 09:39
A patch posted on Thursday by one of Intel's long-time Linux kernel engineers would begin treating outdated Intel CPU microcode as a security vulnerability that would be reported to user-space via the existing sysfs vulnerabilities reporting...

NVIDIA GH200 Grace CPU vs. AMD EPYC 9005 Turin CPU Performance

Phoronix - Fri, 11/08/2024 - 01:37
With the AMD EPYC 9005 "Turin" testing over the past month since launch I have looked at how well the new EPYC Turin CPUs compete against Intel Xeon, how Turin Dense dominates in performance and power efficiency to AmpereOne at 192 cores, and the generational uplift from EPYC Genoa to Turin at the same core counts, among other Turin performance benchmark tests. Up for comparison today is a look at how the NVIDIA Grace CPU performance within the GH200 Superchip compares to the AMD EPYC Turin processors.

Linux 6.13 To Allow Controlling Zero RPM Feature For Radeon RX 7000 Series GPUs

Phoronix - Thu, 11/07/2024 - 23:19
Sent out yesterday was an AMDGPU/AMDKFD kernel driver pull request with the last few feature additions and patches slated for the upcoming Linux 6.13 kernel merge window. Alongside other AMD kernel graphics driver updates, the new driver code with Radeon RX 7000 series RDNA3 graphics cards will finally allow controlling the zero RPM fan feature under Linux...

FreeBSD Reduces OS Support From 5 To 4 Years, Continues Collaboration With AMD

Phoronix - Thu, 11/07/2024 - 21:39
The FreeBSD project issued today their Q3'2024 progress report to outline enhancements made to this open-source BSD operating system over the prior quarter...

Mesa RADV Driver Delivers Conformant Vulkan 1.3 Support For Old AMD GFX6/GFX7 GPUs

Phoronix - Thu, 11/07/2024 - 19:56
While old Radeon GFX6/GFX7 era graphics processors are no longer actively supported by AMD on Windows and haven't been for quite a while, under Linux with the upstream open-source driver stack they remain supported and still enjoying improvements in large part from common code. The most recent fascinating aspect is the old AMD GFX6/GFX7 era GPUs seeing official Vulkan 1.3 support that has been deemed conformant by Khronos...

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