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Cloudflare Goes With AMD EPYC Genoa-X For Their Next-Gen Servers

Cloudflare's always-interesting technical blog laid out their details today concerning their next-gen "12th Generation" in-house servers that will be powering their vast web infrastructure. With these next-gen Cloudflare servers they are going with AMD...

2024-09-25 09:45

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Mesa 24.3 Finishes The Years Long Effort To Phase Out The Old GLSL IR Linker

Timothy Arceri with the Valve Linux graphics team has merged the code for Mesa GLSL to convert to NIR at compile-time and in turn dropping the old GLSL IR linker with this being a multi-year effort now wrapped up for Mesa 24.3...

2024-09-25 08:59

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Linux 6.12 NFS Adds LOCALIO Protocol For "Extreme" Performance Boost

The Network File System (NFS) changes have been merged for the ongoing Linux 6.12 development cycle. Notable this time with NFS is adding LOCALIO protocol extension support that can lead to fairly "extreme" performance improvements in scenarios where t...

2024-09-25 06:36

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Fwupd 1.9.25 Supports Firmware Updates For A Few More Devices Under Linux

Red Hat engineer Richard Hughes this morning released Fwupd 1.9.25 as the newest feature release to this open-source solution paired with the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) for making firmware updates on Linux a breeze for an increasing number of...

2024-09-25 06:17

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Mold Linker Decides To Drop DEC Alpha Support: Likely Broken & No Actual Users

The high performance open-source Mold linker has released version 2.34 with various improvements while also deciding to throw in the towel on DEC Alpha processor support...

2024-09-25 06:11

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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."..

2024-09-25 01:00

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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...

2024-09-25 00:00

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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 k...

2024-09-24 16:30

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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). In aiming for upstream-focused Linux support, this NVIDIA vGPU support is bu...

2024-09-24 13:32

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Intel Xeon 6980P "Granite Rapids" Linux Benchmarks

With the Intel Xeon 6900P "Granite Rapids" launch today the review embargo has now expired. I began with my Intel Granite Rapids Linux benchmarking a few days ago and have initial benchmarks to share for the flagship Xeon 6980P processors paired with M...

2024-09-24 11:00

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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. Where as Sierra Forest is optimize...

2024-09-24 11:00

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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. The quest...

2024-09-24 11:00

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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...

2024-09-24 08:57

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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...

2024-09-24 07:07

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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. LPMD is short for the "Low Power Mode Daemon" while with today's v0.0.7...

2024-09-24 06:43

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Landlock Sandboxing Now Supports More Controls Around Unix Sockets

Landlock as the Linux security module for unprivileged access control handling is adding new controls around Unix socket handling with the Linux 6.12 kernel...

2024-09-24 06:32

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Dell-WMI-Sysman Linux Driver Being Extended For Alienware Systems

The Dell-WMI-Sysman driver on Linux allows for managing BIOS settings from within Linux using sysfs. This dell-wmi-sysman kernel driver supports most Dell platforms from 2018 and newer for convenient BIOS management...

2024-09-24 06:17

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F2FS With Linux 6.12 Converts I/O Paths To Use Folios, Other Improvements

The Flash-Friendly File-System (F2FS) updates have been submitted for the Linux 6.12 merge window...

2024-09-24 06:11

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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. With Linux 6.12 they finished the Intel CPU famil...

2024-09-23 14:15

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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...

2024-09-23 10:20

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