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Linux 6.15 CRC Code Should See Big Speed-Ups For Intel/AMD AVX-512 CPUs

Phoronix - Mon, 03/24/2025 - 18:35
While we are still awaiting the Linux 6.14 release (or a 6.14-rc8 release) with no kernel drop having occurred on Sunday, early pull requests for the Linux 6.15 kernel cycle continue flowing in. Among the early pull requests over the weekend were the CRC code updates that include some nice optimizations for those running on AVX-512 processors...

Libinput 1.28 Released With Three-Finger Drag

Phoronix - Mon, 03/24/2025 - 18:23
Libinput 1.28 debuted today by Red Hat's input expert Peter Hutterer. With this updated input handling library used by both Wayland and X.Org Server environments there is now support for three-finger drag on touchpads...

Raspberry Pi PoE+ Injector Launches For $25 USD

Phoronix - Mon, 03/24/2025 - 18:03
Raspberry Pi's brisk pace of new hardware and software the past few months continues today... The Raspberry Pi PoE+ Injector was announced today at the $25 USD price point...

EROFS Being Extended To Handle Massive Amounts Of Data For AI Model Training

Phoronix - Mon, 03/24/2025 - 03:02
The EROFS open-source, read-only Linux file-system is set to be extended with the upcoming Linux 6.15 kernel cycle to support massive amounts of data to support AI model training...

Hyprland 0.48 Adds A "Application Not Responding" Dialog, Better Color Management

Phoronix - Mon, 03/24/2025 - 00:33
Just days after marking the third birthday of the open-source project, Hyprland 0.48 released today as the newest version of this popular Wayland compositor...

Arch Linux Powered Endeavour OS "Mercury Neo" Released

Phoronix - Sun, 03/23/2025 - 21:04
The Endeavour OS enthusiast Linux distribution built atop Arch Linux is out with its March 2025 ISO refresh under the codename "Mercury Neo" for this spin featuring the latest software packages...

LLVM/Clang Compiler Being Adapted For AVX10.2 Now Making 512-bit Support Mandatory

Phoronix - Sun, 03/23/2025 - 20:55
Coming out this week was an updated AVX10 whitepaper from Intel with the surprising decision that 512-bit floating point and integer support is no longer considered optional for AVX10.2. AVX10.2 now mandates 128 / 256 / 512-bit support and in turn also dropped the 256-bit embedded rounding support with the focus on 512-bit. The LLVM/Clang compiler had seen its AVX10 support designed around Intel's original AVX10 design assumptions and thus now is being modified to address these changes...

Qualcomm Iris Video Decode Driver & DesignWare HDMI Input Support Ready For Linux 6.15

Phoronix - Sun, 03/23/2025 - 18:53
Among the earliest of pull requests this week ahead of the Linux 6.15 merge window expected to begin tomorrow were the media subsystem updates. In addition to continuing to improve the common "uvcvideo" web camera driver and other routine refinements, there is also some new media hardware support slated to be included as part of the Linux 6.15 kernel...

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