Linux Preparing Support For The RISC-V Framework Laptop 13
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-DT-Framework-13-RISC-V
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-DT-Framework-13-RISC-V
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Linux Preparing Support For The RISC-V Framework Laptop 13
Back in June it was teased that Framework Computer in collaboration with DeepComputing would be releasing a RISC-V motherboard for the Framework Laptop 13
Linux 6.12 Adding HDMI CEC Driver For A 4K HDMI Splitter/Amplifier
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.12-Media
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.12-Media
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Linux 6.12 Adding HDMI CEC Driver For A 4K HDMI Splitter/Amplifier
The media subsystem updates were submitted today for the Linux 6.12 kernel merge window
vDSO getrandom() Ported To Five More CPU Architectures With Linux 6.12
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.12-Random
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.12-Random
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vDSO getrandom() Ported To Five More CPU Architectures With Linux 6.12
Linux 6.11 introduced the getrandom() in the vDSO support for faster yet secure user-space random number generation needs
AMD HIP RT 2.4 Brings H-PLOC & New Graphics Architecture Support
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-HIP-RT-2.4
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-HIP-RT-2.4
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AMD HIP RT 2.4 Brings H-PLOC & New Graphics Architecture Support
AMD's GPUOpen team has released HIP RT 2.4 as the newest version of this open-source ray-tracing library built atop their HIP interface.
Intel Diamond Rapids Switches To "Family 19" In Ending Intel Family 6 CPU Era
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Diamond-Rapids-Family-19
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Diamond-Rapids-Family-19
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Intel Diamond Rapids Switches To "Family 19" In Ending Intel Family 6 CPU Era
Months ago Intel Linux engineers began adapting the Linux kernel to end the assumptions made around 'Family 6' for Intel CPUs that had been used since the 90's with the Pentium Pro as the CPU family ID
The Watermelon Operator
https://matklad.github.io/2024/09/24/watermelon-operator.html
https://matklad.github.io/2024/09/24/watermelon-operator.html
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The Watermelon Operator
In these two most excellent articles,
https://without.boats/blog/let-futures-be-futures
and
https://without.boats/blog/futures-unordered,
withoutboats introduces the concepts of multi-task and intra-task concurrency.
I want to revisit this distinction -…
https://without.boats/blog/let-futures-be-futures
and
https://without.boats/blog/futures-unordered,
withoutboats introduces the concepts of multi-task and intra-task concurrency.
I want to revisit this distinction -…
Intel's LPMD "Low Power Mode Daemon" Now Identifies As The "Energy Optimizer"
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-LPMD-v0.0.7
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-LPMD-v0.0.7
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Intel's LPMD "Low Power Mode Daemon" Now Identifies As The "Energy Optimizer"
The Intel LPMD open-source project is a user-space daemon for optimizing active idle power handling on Linux and can be useful particularly for modern Intel Core hybrid processors
Intel LPSS Driver Adds Panther Lake Support In Linux 6.12
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-LPSS-Panther-Lake-Linux
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-LPSS-Panther-Lake-Linux
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Intel LPSS Driver Adds Panther Lake Support In Linux 6.12
Going along with other early Linux kernel driver additions for enabling Panther Lake, the intel-lpss driver in Linux 6.12 has made its device ID additions for supporting Panther Lake H and Panther Lake P processors.
Linux 6.12 Adds A Kernel Stack Usage Histogram To Help With Optimizations
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Kernel-Stack-Histogram
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Kernel-Stack-Histogram
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Linux 6.12 Adds A Kernel Stack Usage Histogram To Help With Optimizations
Merged as part of the memory management 'MM' changes for the Linux 6.12 kernel is a kernel stack usage histogram to help developers in better optimizing the kernel stack sizes and minimizing memory waste.
Intel Gaudi 3 Linux Driver Support Expected Next Month
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Gaudi-3-Linux-Driver-Oct
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Gaudi-3-Linux-Driver-Oct
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Intel Gaudi 3 Linux Driver Support Expected Next Month
Intel used their Enterprise Tech Tour last week in Oregon to not only provide insight into the new Xeon 6900 'Granite Rapids' server processors (and Xeon 6980P benchmarks) but also to shed more light on their Gaudi 3 AI inference accelerator
Intel Launches Xeon 6900P Series "Granite Rapids" Processors
https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-xeon-6900p
https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-xeon-6900p
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Intel Launches Xeon 6900P Series "Granite Rapids" Processors
Building off the launch earlier this year of the first Xeon 6 processors with the Xeon 6700E 'Sierra Forest' processors, today Intel is lifting the wraps on the much anticipated Xeon 6900P 'Granite Rapids' processors.
NVIDIA Publishes Open-Source Linux Driver Code For GPU Virtualization "vGPU" Support
https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-Open-GPU-Virtualization
https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-Open-GPU-Virtualization
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NVIDIA Publishes Open-Source Linux Driver Code For GPU Virtualization "vGPU" Support
NVIDIA engineers have sent out an exciting set of Linux kernel patches for enabling NVIDIA vGPU software support for virtual GPU support among multiple virtual machines (VMs)
NVIDIA Mellanox Linux Driver Spearheads Multi-Path PCI As "A Sign Of Things To Come"
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.12-RDMA-Multi-Path
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.12-RDMA-Multi-Path
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NVIDIA Mellanox Linux Driver Spearheads Multi-Path PCI As "A Sign Of Things To Come"
While open-source enthusiasts like to criticize NVIDIA for not maintaining upstream, in-tree kernel graphics driver support (though things have been changing there), for other areas of their vast hardware portfolio they are much better upstream Linux kernel…
Intel Lunar Lake Linux Benchmarks Are Still Forthcoming
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Lunar-Lake-Linux-Forthcoming
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Lunar-Lake-Linux-Forthcoming
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Intel Lunar Lake Linux Benchmarks Are Still Forthcoming
While there were many Windows reviews/benchmarks out Tuesday for Intel Core Ultra 200 Series 'Lunar Lake' laptops on various websites, Linux tests are still awaiting due to having resorted to pre-ordering a Lunar Lake laptop myself for delivering Linux s…
Frog-FIFO-V1 Aims To Address Mesa's "Fundamentally Broken" Wayland Code
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-frog-fifo-v1-MR
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-frog-fifo-v1-MR
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Frog-FIFO-V1 Aims To Address Mesa's "Fundamentally Broken" Wayland Code
Joshua Ashton of Valve's Linux graphics team has opened a Mesa merge request to support a proposed 'frog-fifo-v1' protocol for Wayland to address the matter of 'FIFO is fundamentally broken under Mesa's Wayland WSI right now.'