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Intel "Family 6" CPU Era Coming To An End Soon: Code Suggests Cooper Forest & Adams Lake

Phoronix - Fri, 03/29/2024 - 01:40
Since the mid-90's with the P6 micro-architecture for the Pentium Pro as the sixth-generation x86 microarchitecture, Intel has relied on the "Family 6" CPU ID. From there Intel has just revved the Model number within Family 6 for each new microarchitecture/core. For example, Meteor Lake is Family 6 Model 170 and Emerald Rapids is Family 6 Model 207. This CPU ID identification is used within the Linux kernel and other operating systems for identifying CPU generations for correct handling, etc. But Intel Linux engineers today disclosed that Family 6 is coming to an end "soon-ish"...

Linux Foundation Launches Valkey As A Redis Fork

Phoronix - Fri, 03/29/2024 - 01:30
Given the recent change by Redis to adopt dual source-available licensing for all their releases moving forward (Redis Source Available License v2 and Server Side Public License v1), the Linux Foundation announced today their fork of Redis...

GNU Coreutils 9.5 Can Yield 10~20% Throughput Boost For cp, mv & cat Commands

Phoronix - Fri, 03/29/2024 - 00:35
While the uutils Rust-written Coreutils effort has been chugging along, the upstream GNU Coreutils effort is showing no signs of slowing down. Out today is GNU Coreutils 9.5 with yet more feature work and bug fixes including a security fix for a chmod issue that's been around since the beginning...

Intel Core Ultra "Meteor Lake" Yields Faster Performance With Linux 6.9

Phoronix - Thu, 03/28/2024 - 23:10
While Intel Core Ultra "Meteor Lake" has been working out well under Linux already -- especially with regards to the enticing integrated Arc Graphics -- with the in-development Linux 6.9 kernel it's looking even better for the CPU performance. Here are some initial benchmarks looking at the Intel Core Ultra 7 155H Meteor Lake performance with Linux 6.8 vs. 6.9 Git.

Arm China Looking At Upstreaming Their "Zhouyi" NPU Driver Into The Linux Kernel

Phoronix - Thu, 03/28/2024 - 22:34
Arm China is looking at upstreaming their "Zhouyi" NPU driver into the Linux kernel via the recently-created accelerator "accel" subsystem. The Arm China Neural Processing Unit (NPU) driver in its current form has both an open-source kernel and user-space stack...

Flatpak 1.15.7 Will Now Automatically Remove Obsolete Driver Versions

Phoronix - Thu, 03/28/2024 - 21:54
Simon McVittie issued the Flatpak 1.15.7 pre-release on Wednesday with a few notable changes for this widely-used open-source app sandboxing and distribution framework...

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