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https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-CoC-Bcachefs-6.13
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-CoC-Bcachefs-6.13Following the recent messaging from Bcachefs lead developer Kent Oversteet that Bcachefs changes for Linux 6.13 were rejected on the basis of his Code of Conduct, the Linux CoC committee has now formally announced their decision...Fri, 22 Nov 2024 18:30:01 -0500Michael LarabelAMD 3D V-Cache Optimizer Driver Headlines The x86 Platform Enhancements In Linux 6.13
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.13-x86-Platform-Drivers
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.13-x86-Platform-DriversThe x86 platform driver updates were merged this week for the in-development Linux 6.13 and include some nice refinements, especially for those using AMD Ryzen on Linux...Fri, 22 Nov 2024 14:35:30 -0500Michael LarabelLinux 6.13 Enhances Interactions Between Intel TDX Guests & VMMs
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.13-Intel-TDX
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.13-Intel-TDXThere are some new improvements in Linux 6.13 for the Intel TDX code for Trust Domain Extensions in providing hardware-based security protections for virtual machines on recent Xeon processors...Fri, 22 Nov 2024 12:47:52 -0500Michael LarabelAMD Linux Graphics Driver Now Allows Display Support With Modern GPUs On LoongArch
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDGPU-DC-LoongArch
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDGPU-DC-LoongArchFollowing the Linux 6.13 DRM feature pull this week that brought many new open-source kernel graphics driver features, it's now time to further stabilize that new feature code with fixes. Sent out today were a batch of fixes for the AMDGPU/AMDKFD kernel driver code targeting the early Linux 6.13 state. In addition to fixes though is also allowing the AMDGPU Display Core "DC" code to build properly on LoongArch hardware for allowing recent AMD Radeon GPUs to work on these Chinese systems...Fri, 22 Nov 2024 12:11:17 -0500Michael LarabelAMD Bus Lock Trap Support Merged For Linux 6.13
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Bus-Lock-Trap-Linux-6.13
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Bus-Lock-Trap-Linux-6.13Going back to early in the year AMD Linux engineers began preparing support for a new Bus Lock Trap feature with Zen 5 CPUs. With the in-development Linux 6.13 kernel that support is being merged...Fri, 22 Nov 2024 09:00:00 -0500Michael LarabelSched_Ext Changes Merged For Linux 6.13 With LLC & NUMA Awareness
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.13-Sched_Ext
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.13-Sched_ExtOne of the most prominent new features in Linux 6.12 was the merging of sched_ext for allowing extensible scheduler innovations by altering the scheduling behavior through (e)BPF programs. With the Linux 6.13 kernel there are some nice refinements to this extensible scheduler class...Fri, 22 Nov 2024 06:47:21 -0500Michael LarabelXFS With Linux 6.13 Sees Major Rework To Real-Time Volumes
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.13-XFS
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.13-XFSThe XFS file-system updates were merged yesterday for the ongoing Linux 6.13 merge window...Fri, 22 Nov 2024 06:25:17 -0500Michael LarabelIntel NPU Library v1.4 Adds Turbo Mode & Tensor Operations
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-NPU-Library-1.4
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-NPU-Library-1.4Version 1.4 of the Intel NPU Acceleration Library was released today as the Python library for use on Windows and Linux for interacting with the Intel Neural Processing Unit (NPU) for AI offloading on recent Intel Core Ultra processors...Fri, 22 Nov 2024 06:16:41 -0500Michael LarabelNew Sound Hardware Support In Linux 6.13
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.13-Sound
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.13-SoundSUSE engineer and sound subsystem maintainer Takashi Iwai has submitted all of the sound driver updates for the Linux 6.13 kernel...Fri, 22 Nov 2024 06:05:19 -0500Michael LarabelNice File Performance Optimizations Coming With Linux 6.13
https://www.phoronix.com/news/VFS-File-Pull-Linux-6.13-Perf
https://www.phoronix.com/news/VFS-File-Pull-Linux-6.13-PerfIn addition to the pull requests managed by Microsoft engineer Christian Brauner for VFS untorn writes for atomic writes with XFS and EXT4, Tmpfs case insensitive file/folder support, new Rust file abstractions, and the renewed multi-grain timestamps work, another interesting Linux 6.13 pull submitted by Brauner revolves around VFS file enhancements...Thu, 21 Nov 2024 21:02:17 -0500Michael LarabelFaster Raspberry Pi Graphics & Intel Xe3 Enablement Starts With Linux 6.13 DRM Changes
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.13-DRM-Kernel-Graphics
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.13-DRM-Kernel-GraphicsThe Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) subsystem updates have been submitted for the Linux 6.13 merge window in bringing many updates to the open-source kernel graphics/display drivers as well as the accelerator subsystem...Thu, 21 Nov 2024 16:27:51 -0500Michael LarabelReiserFS Has Been Deleted From The Linux Kernel
https://www.phoronix.com/news/ReiserFS-Deleted-Linux-6.13
https://www.phoronix.com/news/ReiserFS-Deleted-Linux-6.13Linus Torvalds just merged the change to the Linux 6.13 kernel that goes ahead and deletes the ReiserFS file-system from the source tree. Removing ReiserFS from the Linux tree lightens the kernel by 32.8k lines of code...Thu, 21 Nov 2024 13:15:44 -0500Michael LarabelMesa 24.3 Released With Many Open-Source Vulkan Driver Improvements
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-24.3-Released
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-24.3-ReleasedMesa 24.3 has managed to make it out today, one week ahead of the previous release plans due to the lack of any major blocker bugs appearing. Mesa 24.3 has a lot of new feature work on the contained open-source Vulkan drivers as well as evolutionary improvements to their OpenGL drivers and other user-space 3D driver code...Thu, 21 Nov 2024 12:20:22 -0500Michael LarabelLinux 6.13 SoC Updates Land With Initial Support For Many Older Apple Devices
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.13-SoC-Updates
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.13-SoC-UpdatesThe four pull requests adding various SoC and board/platform support have now been merged for the Linux 6.13 kernel. This includes support for many older Apple iPad/iPhones, supporting another SoC with a combination of RISC-V and ARM cores, and a wide variety of other mostly ARM hardware support...Thu, 21 Nov 2024 10:17:27 -0500Michael LarabelZrythm 1.0 Released For Powerful Open-Source Digital Audio Workstation
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Zrythm-1.0
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Zrythm-1.0Zrythm 1.0 released today as a big milestone for this open-source digital audio workstation (DAW) software that caters from professional users down to beginners...Thu, 21 Nov 2024 10:00:36 -0500Michael LarabelKhronos Announces Slang Initiative From Open-Source NVIDIA Code
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Khronos-Slang
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Khronos-SlangOn top of an exciting Vulkan spec update out today, The Khronos Group has announced the Slang Initiative based on NVIDIA's open-source Slang compiler code...Thu, 21 Nov 2024 09:42:28 -0500Michael LarabelVKD3D 1.14 Released With Initial Metal Shading Language Output
https://www.phoronix.com/news/VKD3D-1.14-Released
https://www.phoronix.com/news/VKD3D-1.14-ReleasedAhead of the upcoming freeze for Wine 10.0, VKD3D 1.14 is now available for this prominent Wine component that allows Direct3D 12 to be implemented over the Vulkan API for enhancing Windows games/apps running on Linux and other platforms...Thu, 21 Nov 2024 08:35:56 -0500Michael LarabelLinux 6.13 EDAC Preps For Panther Lake H & Missing Support For Old Kabylake S CPUs
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.13-EDAC
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.13-EDACThe Error Detection And Correction (EDAC) subsystem updates landed this week for the ongoing Linux 6.13 kernel merge window...Thu, 21 Nov 2024 06:34:43 -0500Michael LarabelPHP 8.4 Released With Property Hooks, Lazy Objects & Other New Features
https://www.phoronix.com/news/PHP-8.4-Released
https://www.phoronix.com/news/PHP-8.4-ReleasedPHP 8.4 is out today as the newest annual major feature release to this widely-used scripting language...Thu, 21 Nov 2024 06:24:51 -0500Michael LarabelVulkan 1.3.302 Published With AV1 Encode & NVIDIA Display Stereo Extensions
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Vulkan-1.3.302-Published
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Vulkan-1.3.302-PublishedVulkan 1.3.302 was published this morning with a handful of new extensions, including AV1 encode support for Vulkan Video...Thu, 21 Nov 2024 05:50:59 -0500Michael LarabelBcachefs Changes Rejected Reportedly Due To CoC, Kernel Future "Uncertain"
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Bcachefs-Uncertain-Kernel-Issue
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Bcachefs-Uncertain-Kernel-IssueWhile the Bcachefs feature changes for Linux 6.13 were already submitted even before the Linux 6.12 stable kernel was released, merging these changes are supposedly on hold due to the kernel's Code of Conduct (CoC) board...Wed, 20 Nov 2024 22:34:16 -0500Michael LarabelLinux 6.13 Adds Support For Ultra Capacity SD Cards "SDUC" For 2TB To 128TB Storage
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.13-SDUC-Ultra-Capacity
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.13-SDUC-Ultra-CapacityLinux 6.13 has merged support for the Secure Digital Ultra Capacity "SDUC" standard for 2TB to 128TB storage capacity SD cards...Wed, 20 Nov 2024 20:22:25 -0500Michael LarabelLinux 6.13 "MM" Patches Bring Some Enticing Performance Optimizations
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.13-MM-Patches
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.13-MM-PatchesAndrew Morton on Monday submitted all the memory management "MM" related patches for the Linux 6.13 merge window. As usual there's a lot of interesting performance optimizations and other low-level refinements...Wed, 20 Nov 2024 14:42:08 -0500Michael LarabelMany Networking Changes In Linux 6.13 - One Line Of Code Helping WireGuard Performance
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.13-Networking
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.13-NetworkingThe abundance of networking subsystem updates have been mailed in for the Linux 6.13 kernel from wired and wireless driver enhancements to core networking code improvements...Wed, 20 Nov 2024 13:22:04 -0500Michael Larabel8 vs. 12 Channel DDR5-6000 Memory Performance With AMD 5th Gen EPYC
https://www.phoronix.com/review/8-12-channel-epyc-9005
https://www.phoronix.com/review/8-12-channel-epyc-9005As I wrote about last week within the Supermicro H13SSL-N EPYC Turin motherboard review, one of the factors leading me to purchasing that EPYC 9005 series motherboard was that this board offered support for full 12 channel DDR5-6000 memory performance compared to some of the other lower-cost Socket SP5 motherboards offering just 8 memory channels. For those wanting to quantify the performance difference between eight and twelve memory channels with AMD EPYC 9005 "Turin" processors, here are some benchmarks for showing the workloads that can really benefit from all 12 memory channels and other workloads where eight memory channels can be largely sufficient if looking to minimize costs.Wed, 20 Nov 2024 11:40:00 -0500Michael LarabelRaspberry Pi Camera Front End "CFE" Video Capture With Linux 6.13
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Raspberry-Pi-CFE-Linux-6.13
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Raspberry-Pi-CFE-Linux-6.13Following the initial Raspberry Pi 5 upstream support in Linux 6.12 providing basic support, an exciting Raspberry Pi addition with the in-development Linux 6.13 kernel is introducing a Raspberry Pi Camera Front-End "CFE" driver...Wed, 20 Nov 2024 10:32:23 -0500Michael LarabelMany AMD CPU Feature Additions Land In Linux 6.13
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.13-AMD-CPU
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.13-AMD-CPUThe in-development Linux 6.13 kernel is bringing a lot of exciting improvements for AMD Linux customers...Wed, 20 Nov 2024 10:18:12 -0500Michael LarabelOpenVINO 2024.5 Released With More Intel Optimizations, Better LLM/GenAI Coverage
https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenVINO-2024.5-Released
https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenVINO-2024.5-ReleasedIntel's open-source software developers released today OpenVINO 2024.5 as the newest major feature release for this cross-platform AI toolkit...Wed, 20 Nov 2024 08:34:36 -0500Michael LarabelFaster CRC32C & AEGIS-128 Crypto Performance On Linux 6.13 With Intel/AMD CPUs
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.13-Crypto
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.13-CryptoThe crypto subsystem updates were merged yesterday for the in-development Linux 6.13 kernel. Among other crypto improvements are new optimizations for some algorithms when running on Intel and AMD x86_64 processors...Wed, 20 Nov 2024 06:34:26 -0500Michael LarabelMultigrain Timestamps Try Again For Linux 6.13 - Now With Less Performance Impact
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.13-Multigrain-Timestamp
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.13-Multigrain-TimestampMerged last year for Linux 6.6 was multi-grain(ed) timestamps to address the current coarse-grained timestamps when updating creation time and modification time that a lot of I/O activity can happen in the once-per-jiffy timestamp. Just a few weeks in the Linux 6.6 kernel, multi-grain timestamps were removed due to bugs. The multigrain code went back to be reworked and now just over one year later the code has been re-merged into the mainline Linux kernel...Wed, 20 Nov 2024 06:10:00 -0500Michael LarabelCorsair Void Headset & Kysona M600 Lightweight Gaming Mouse Support In Linux 6.13
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.13-HID
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.13-HIDThe HID subsystem updates have been submitted for the Linux 6.13 kernel cycle...Wed, 20 Nov 2024 06:00:49 -0500Michael LarabelNew AMD ERAPS Feature Yields Additional Performance Gains On Zen 5
https://www.phoronix.com/review/amd-zen5-eraps
https://www.phoronix.com/review/amd-zen5-erapsAt the beginning of November I wrote about AMD Linux engineers posting Linux patches enabling a new "ERAPS" feature for Zen 5. ERAPS wasn't talked about by AMD at the Zen 5 launches of the Ryzen 9000 / Ryzen AI 300 series or with the more recent EPYC 9005 "Turin" launch but when enabled, the Enhanced Return Address Prediction Security feature can help deliver some additional gains on new AMD Zen 5 systems by allowing some existing software security mitigations to be avoided. Here are some preliminary comparison benchmarks showing the benefit in affected workloads for using ERAPS on Linux with AMD Zen 5.Mon, 18 Nov 2024 10:56:09 -0500Michael Larabel
