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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...

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