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Pre-Ordered The ASUS Zenbook S 14 For Intel Core Ultra "Lunar Lake" Linux Testing

Phoronix - Fri, 09/06/2024 - 22:12
With this week's announcement of the Intel Core Ultra 200V Series "Lunar Lake" processors, I've been very eager to try out the Meteor Lake successor for Linux testing. As sadly is usually the case, for delivering Linux support details and performance benchmarks around launch-time I'm typically left buying a laptop retail for Linux testing. In this case after seeing the Lunar Lake laptops announced this week and their availability, I ended up settling on the ASUS Zenbook S 14 (UX5406SA-S14.U71TB) for the initial Core Ultra 200V series Linux review...

Linux Very Close To Enabling Real-Time "PREEMPT_RT" Support

Phoronix - Fri, 09/06/2024 - 20:36
We're very close to the finish line for the mainline Linux kernel being able to enable real-time "PREEMPT_RT" kernel support...

Linux 6.11-rc7 To Fix A "Massive Performance Regression" For AMD Graphics

Phoronix - Fri, 09/06/2024 - 18:58
Sent out today were the DRM fixes for 6.11-rc7 ahead of the Linux 6.11-rc7 kernel being released on Sunday. As usual most of the changes revolve around the AMDGPU and Intel i915/Xe drivers plus random fixes to the smaller drivers. There is one change though with the AMD Radeon graphics driver side worth highlighting to address a performance regression affecting recent kernels...

It's Taken Until 2024 To Add FreeBSD To X.Org Continuous Integration Testing

Phoronix - Fri, 09/06/2024 - 18:48
It's taken until now to add FreeBSD to the X.Org Continuous Integration (CI) automated testing so that all proposed changes to the X.Org Server can now be build-tested on FreeBSD rather than just Linux...

FEX 2409 Highlights Some Of The Challenges Of Emulating x86 On RISC-V

Phoronix - Fri, 09/06/2024 - 18:40
FEX 2409 has been released for this open-source project that's known for allowing x86_64 Linux binaries -- including both games and applications -- to run rather well on AArch64. It's also been working on enabling x86_64 programs on RISC-V but there due to architectural differences it's more of a challenge than with ARM...

Oracle Rewrites Libresource For Standardized API Of Linux System Resource Information

Phoronix - Fri, 09/06/2024 - 18:17
Back in 2018 Oracle introduced Libresource as a standardized API for accessing system resource information around memory / network / device statistics and other metrics. Libresource v2 was announced this week as largely a rewrite of the project...

Mesa 24.2.2 Enables Intel Lunar Lake & Battlemage Xe2 Graphics Out-Of-The-Box

Phoronix - Fri, 09/06/2024 - 08:35
Following the recently covered patches on Phoronix that enabled Intel Xe2 graphics out-of-the-box / by-default for Lunar Lake and Battlemage with the Mesa 24.3-devel Git code, Mesa 24.2.2 is out today in stable form that back-ports these Xe2 support changes...

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