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Linux 6.12 Features Are Super Exciting With Real-Time, Sched_ext, Intel Xe2 & Raspberry Pi 5

The Linux 6.12 merge window is wrapping up today with the release of Linux 6.12-rc1 in the coming hours. This is going to be a heck of an exciting kernel. There's real-time PREEMPT_RT finally in mainline, the much anticipated sched_ext code also was me...

2024-09-29 15:00

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CachyOS Optimizing More Packages With PGO For Up To ~10% Better Performance

The Arch Linux based CachyOS operating system that is known for pursuing aggressive performance while still delivering a nice Linux desktop experience is out with its September 2024 release...

2024-09-29 15:00

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Linux 6.12 x86 Platform Drivers Brings Improvements For Laptops Plus Intel ELC

The x86 platform driver changes that were merged last week for the Linux 6.12 kernel continue to be quite lively with changes for enhancing Linux laptop support along with other Intel platform improvements...

2024-09-29 13:00

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Linux 6.12 Hardware Monitoring Supports More OneXPlayer Gaming Handhelds

The hardware monitoring "HWMON" subsystem updates for Linux 6.12 added some new drivers as well as adding new device support to some of the existing drivers...

2024-09-29 11:00

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Intel Panther Lake & Diamond Rapids Model IDs Added For Linux 6.12

Submitted today as the "x86 fixes" for the Linux kernel ahead of the Linux 6.12-rc1 release this evening is adding two new Intel CPU model numbers...

2024-09-29 11:00

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Systemd Looking At A Future With More Varlink & Less D-Bus For IPC

Taking place this week in Berlin was systemd's annual "All Systems Go" developer conference. Among the interesting talks was Lennart Poettering talking about the ongoing challenges of D-Bus for inter-process communication (IPC) with systemd and how the...

2024-09-28 16:00

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KVM With Linux 6.12 Will Advertise AVX10.1 Support To Guest VMs

The KVM x86/x86_64 changes were merged today as we are nearly done with the Linux 6.12 merge window...

2024-09-28 14:57

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FreeBSD To See Better Laptop Support With Investment Backed By AMD, Dell & Framework

Following AMD and FreeBSD Foundation collaborations and the Sovereign Tech Fund making a big investment into FreeBSD, the FreeBSD Foundation and Quantum Leap Research have announced a $750,000 USD commitment to improve laptop support on this BSD operat...

2024-09-28 10:47

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FUSE In Linux 6.12 Adds Idmapped Mounts & Writeback Optimization

File-systems in user-space continue to become more robust with the latest FUSE updates merged for Linux 6.12...

2024-09-28 10:32

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Blumenkrantz Proposes Workflow Improvements For Wayland Protocols

It's been a busy week for Valve Linux graphics software engineer Mike Blumenkrantz. Besides hacking on Mesa's Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver implementation, this week his latest target was working to help accelerate the pace of Wayland protocol developme...

2024-09-28 09:35

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LoongArch Adds ACPI BGRT Support & Other Improvements For Linux 6.12

The LoongArch architecture support for these Chinese processors continue seeing better support with the upstream Linux kernel...

2024-09-28 09:06

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More CXL Additions Arrive For Linux 6.12

Ahead of the Linux 6.12 merge window wrapping up this weekend with the Linux 6.12-rc1 release, merged on Friday were all of the Compute Express Link (CXL) updates for the new kernel...

2024-09-28 08:46

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KDE Sees Many Crash Fixes & Other Improvements Ahead Of Plasma 6.2

KDE developers remain very busy landing bug and crash fixes ahead of the upcoming Plasma 6.2 desktop release...

2024-09-28 06:37

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Valve Helping Arch Linux With Build Service Infrastructure & Secure Signing Enclave

Valve's SteamOS is built atop Arch Linux and now the company is further helping the upstream Linux distribution by collaborating with resources to help with build service infrastructure and a secure signing enclave...

2024-09-28 06:22

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AMD ROCm 6.2.2 Released To Fix Instinct MI300X Error Recovery Failure

It's been just one week since the release of ROCm 6.2.1 while today ROCm 6.2.2 was released...

2024-09-27 19:08

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Linux 6.12 Adds Driver For PixArt PS/2 Touchpad Found In Some Laptops

The input subsystem updates merged this week bring a number of improvements to existing drivers while adding one new input driver...

2024-09-27 15:19

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AMD Releases AMD-135M: An Open-Source Small Language Model

AMD today announced "AMD-135M" as their first small language model they are publicly releasing. AMD-135M is open-source with the training code, dataset, and weights all being open-source to help in the development of other SLMs and LLMs...

2024-09-27 14:05

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Early Linux 6.12 Kernel Benchmarks Showing Some Nice Gains On AMD Zen 5

With the Linux 6.12 merge window wrapping up this weekend and the bulk of the new feature merges now in the tree, I've begun running some Linux 6.12 benchmarks. Here is an initial look at Linux 6.10 vs. 6.11 vs. 6.12 Git on an AMD Ryzen 9 9950X desktop...

2024-09-27 12:22

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AmpereOne CPPC CPUFreq Schedutil vs. Performance Governor Benchmarks

Similar to the ACPI CPUFreq and AMD/Intel P-State CPU frequency scaling driver and scaling governor benchmarks and power efficiency comparisons I routinely do on Phoronix, when recently having the Supermicro AmpereOne server in the lab with the 192-cor...

2024-09-27 11:02

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Intel's Open PGL v0.7 Delivers New Experimental Features

Intel software engineers have released version 0.7 of Open PGL, their open-source Path Guiding Library (PGL) that can be used by 3D renderers to enjoy state-of-the-art path guiding methods for better sampling quality and efficiency...

2024-09-27 10:13

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