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Testing The AMD Heterogeneous Core Topology Linux Patches On Ryzen AI 300 Series

Phoronix - Thu, 08/01/2024 - 03:15
Now that I am through with my testing of the initial Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 and Ryzen AI 9 365 Linux performance benchmarking and support exploration, I've begun diving in to other areas of the Linux support/performance for these Zen 5 "Strix Point" SoCs. The area for a quick look today is with the yet-to-be-merged AMD Heterogeneous Core Topology patches...

ARM Linux Maintainer Drafts Deprecation Timeline For Old Boards/Features

Phoronix - Thu, 08/01/2024 - 02:07
ARM Linux maintainer Arnd Bergmann laid out a proposal with deprecation timeline today for beginning to work toward removing many older ARM boards and obsolete features...

Mesa 24.2-rc3 Released With More Intel Xe2 Graphics Fixes

Phoronix - Thu, 08/01/2024 - 01:35
Mesa 24.2 is barreling towards its stable release in August while out today is the third weekly release candidate for this set of open-source OpenGL, Vulkan, and video acceleration drivers...

AmpereOne Aurora In Development With Up To 512 Cores, AmpereOne Prices Published

Phoronix - Wed, 07/31/2024 - 23:00
Ampere Computing hosted an AmpereOne architecture briefing this week where more details were shared on their long talked about AArch64 server processors. This announcement finally included a SKU table with suggested pricing as well as talking up a next-gen "AmpereOne Aurora" offering for a processor with up to 512 cores and some newly-disclosed Ampere AI acceleration IP.

Xen 4.19 Released With New 9pfs Backend, Scales Up To 16,383 CPUs

Phoronix - Wed, 07/31/2024 - 22:20
The Xen Project has announced version Xen 4.19 of this open-source hypervisor that is rolling out security improvements, performance and scalability enhancements, and other refinements to this cross-architecture option for open-source virtualization...

Servo Web Engine Now Leverages Multiple CPU Cores For Rendering HTML Tables

Phoronix - Wed, 07/31/2024 - 20:52
The Servo project is out with their latest monthly status report to highlight advancements made on this open-source, Rust-written web layout engine...

Glibc Patch Being Reviewed For getrandom vDSO Support

Phoronix - Wed, 07/31/2024 - 18:48
One of the many exciting features merged for Linux 6.11 is getrandom() in the vDSO for very fast yet secure random number generation. Now that the kernel bits have landed, it's on to making use of it in the GNU C Library and other libc implementations...

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