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Linux 6.12 Kernel To Add New Features For Intel & AMD Systems, Many Other Changes Too

Phoronix - Wed, 09/11/2024 - 20:47
With Linux 6.11 expected for release on Sunday that in turn will mark the start of the two-week merge window for Linux 6.12. The Linux 6.12 cycle will get underway and work towards its stable release in mid to late November. Ahead of the Linux 6.12 merge window here is a look at some of the material anticipated for merging during this next cycle...

Device Tree Patches Posted For Review To Boot Linux On Apple A7 To A11 Devices

Phoronix - Wed, 09/11/2024 - 18:50
Device Tree patches have been posted to the Linux kernel mailing list for review and possible upstreaming to the mainline Linux kernel for booting Apple iPhones, iPads, and iPods that use the A7 to A11 SoCs...

Verso Taking Shape As A Servo-Powered Web Browser

Phoronix - Wed, 09/11/2024 - 18:22
With Mozilla having backed away from the Servo web engine years ago and recent open-source development on Servo focused on making it suitable for embed purposes into other applications/software, it's remained to be picked up by any standalone web browser project. But taking shape over the past few months has been Verso as a ground-up build of a new Rust-based web browser making use of Servo...

LLVM Makes Progress On Using ClangIR To Compile GPU Kernels

Phoronix - Wed, 09/11/2024 - 18:04
ClangIR is a new IR for LLVM's Clang compiler built atop MLIR. Thanks to this year's Google Summer of Code, there has been progress on being able to compile GPU kernels using ClangIR as another improvement for heterogeneous programming with this open-source compiler stack...

Torvalds Inclined To Release Linux 6.11 This Coming Sunday

Phoronix - Wed, 09/11/2024 - 17:57
With this past weekend's release of Linux 6.11-rc7, the kernel changes for the week were larger than prior RCs and Torvalds was a bit hesitant on releasing v6.11 this coming Sunday due to the upcoming that takes place next week in Vienna, Austria. But after a bit of time and feedback from other kernel developers, Torvalds is now more inclined to release Linux 6.11 this coming Sunday rather than dragging it out for an extra week...

Kernel Shader Variants Merged For Mesa's Rusticl OpenCL Driver

Phoronix - Wed, 09/11/2024 - 17:46
The latest Rust-written OpenCL driver "Rusticl" work by Red Hat engineer Karol Herbst is support for shader variants and introducing an optimized kernel variant...

wolfSSL "Immediately Retired" From Fedora Linux For Failing To Follow Packaging Rules

Phoronix - Wed, 09/11/2024 - 08:11
WolfSSL is an embedded SSl/TLS library designed for a range of use-cases and available as open-source under the GNU GPLv2. WolfSSL was recently packaged and added to Fedora Linux since Netatalk began building against wolfSSL and in the longer-term plans to require its use. So the Fedora packager of Netatalk went ahead with packaging up wolfSSL. But this in turn has led to issues and as of today is now being "immediately retired from Fedora."..

CentOS Stream 10 Showing Nice Performance Uplift In Early Benchmarks On AmpereOne

Phoronix - Wed, 09/11/2024 - 04:00
As part of the ongoing AmpereOne testing at Phoronix with the 192-core AmpereOne A192-32X flagship processor, I've been working on several different Linux distribution benchmarks with this Supermicro AmpereOne server. That comparison in full should be published next week while worth highlighting on its own are some of the gains seen with the in-development CentOS Stream 10 that serves as the upstream to what will be Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10. There are some nice performance gains seen on AArch64 with CentOS Stream 10 compared to CentOS Stream 9.

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