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AMD "sbtsi_temp" Driver Being Updated For Linux 6.18 To Handle Freezing CPU Temperatures

Phoronix - Wed, 09/03/2025 - 02:50
Two years ago the AMD Linux CPU temperature driver was updated to handle negative temperature reporting. That's for some users with exotic cooling systems and then also use within some industrial applications where the systems may be subject to sub-zero temperatures. The AMD sbtsi_temp driver is also now being similarly updated for handling freezing CPU temperatures...

NVIDIA 580.82.07 Driver Brings Fix For Vulkan On Wayland, Smooth Motion For RTX 40

Phoronix - Wed, 09/03/2025 - 01:41
NVIDIA just released the 580.82.07 stable Linux driver as their newest R580 driver series update...

LLVM Clang 21 Compiler Helping Squeeze More Performance On 5th Gen AMD EPYC "Turin"

Phoronix - Tue, 09/02/2025 - 22:42
With LLVM 21.1 having been released last week as the newest half-year feature update to this open-source compiler stack, I have begun benchmarking Clang 21 on a variety of systems for getting a feel for the performance over Clang 20. Eventually it will be extended as well to looking at the Clang 21 performance against GCC and vendor compilers. For some initial Clang 21 benchmarking, here is a look at how the Clang 21 C/C++ compiler is performing on 5th Gen AMD EPYC "Turin" Zen 5 processors compared to the prior release.

Arch Linux's Archinstall No Longer Treating LVM-Based Installs As "Beta"

Phoronix - Tue, 09/02/2025 - 21:12
Arch Linux's convenient text-based OS installer "archinstall" is out with a new release today that promotes Logical Volume Manager (LVM) based installs no longer as "beta" quality...

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