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AMDXDNA Driver For Ryzen AI Now Ready To Appear In The Linux kernel

Phoronix - Sun, 11/24/2024 - 22:22
The AMDXDNA kernel driver for Linux systems that was made open-source in January for supporting the Ryzen AI NPU on laptop SoCs going back to the Ryzen 7040 "Phoenix" series is now one step away from appearing in the mainline Linux kernel in the near future...

Virtual CPUFreq Driver Coming With Linux 6.13 For Better Power/Performance Within VMs

Phoronix - Sun, 11/24/2024 - 19:58
Earlier this week was the main power management updates for Linux 6.13 that included switching AMD EPYC Turin to using the amd_pstate driver on supported systems. Sent out this weekend was another set of power management updates that also includes a notable addition: the virtual CPUFreq driver...

Linux 6.13 Will Report The Number Of Hung Tasks Since Boot

Phoronix - Sun, 11/24/2024 - 19:15
Following all of the MM patches earlier this week sent in by Andrew Morton, on Sunday morning he sent out all of the non-MM patches that he manages for the Linux kernel. Notable for Linux 6.13 with this pull request is presenting the hung task counter as well as finishing off the folio conversion in the NILFS2 code...

FreeBSD 14.2-RC1 Brings Install Image Improvements

Phoronix - Sun, 11/24/2024 - 06:07
Ahead of FreeBSD 14.2 hopefully releasing in just over one week, FreeBSD 14.2-RC1 is out this weekend as the last planned development release for testing ahead of that much anticipated point release...

Microsoft Continues "Demikernel" Development LibOS For Kernel-Bypass I/O

Phoronix - Sat, 11/23/2024 - 22:35
A Microsoft Research project that was quietly announced a few years ago to some fanfare but not hearing much about since has been Demikernel as their library OS architecture for kernel-bypass I/O. A Phoronix reader brought up Demikernel this week and while it hasn't been talked about much in recent years it does remain under active development with the most recent commits as of hours ago...

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