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How The Ubuntu Linux Performance Has Evolved For SiFive RISC-V Over The Last Four Years

SiFive recently sent over their new HiFive Premier P550 developer board and as part of that fresh RISC-V CPU testing I've also been re-testing the prior SiFive HiFive Unmatched developer board from 2020~2021 for reference. Out of curiosity, I've carrie...

2025-03-03 11:12

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AMD Broadcast TLB Invalidation "INVLPGB" Support Appears Ready For The Linux Kernel

Back in December Linux kernel patches were posted by a Meta engineer for making use of the AMD INVLPGB instruction found with Zen 3 and newer processors. The Linux kernel would use INVLPGB for invalidating TLB entries for a range of pages with broadcas...

2025-03-03 10:00

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Raspberry Pi CM4 Now Available With "Extended Temperature" Variants

Raspberry Pi has been on a spree lately with many new product launches such as the Raspberry Pi 500, Raspberry Pi Monitor, Raspberry Pi 5 16GB, and Compute Module 5 in the past few months. Today the company announced an expansion of their offerings in ...

2025-03-03 08:45

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Rustup 1.28 Adds New Windows AArch64 & LoongArch Platform Support

Rustup 1.28 is out today as the newest version of this official tool that is the Rust project's recommended means of installing the Rust programming language support...

2025-03-03 08:32

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Intel Preps Linux For eUSB2V2 To Enhance USB 2.0 For Higher Resolution Laptop Webcams

Last September the USB Implementers Forum quietly published an update to the USB 2.0 specification... The Embedded USB2 Version 2.0 "eUSB2V2" supplement to provide for better performance with significantly higher data rates to USB 2.0 while maintaining...

2025-03-03 06:47

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Linux Gaining SMP Support For The OpenPOWER Microwatt

Open-sourced back in 2019 was the OpenPOWER Microwatt as an open-source, soft processor core of Power ISA 3.0 and intended for use on FPGA boards and then there was seemingly short-lived work to fabricate a Microwatt chip and Microwatt also found its w...

2025-03-03 06:23

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Optimized AMD SEV Cache Flushing Patches Posted For Linux

The newest upstream-focused work around AMD SEV for Secure Encrypted Virtualization with EPYC server processors is a set of patches to better optimize cache flushing...

2025-03-03 06:06

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Linux 6.14-rc5 Released: "Nothing Strange Stands Out"

Linus Torvalds just released the Linux 6.14-rc5 kernel as the Linux 6.14 stable kernel approaches toward release later in March...

2025-03-02 15:00

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NVIDIA Is Finding Great Success With Vulkan Machine Learning - Competitive With CUDA

It's not only AMD that is working on Vulkan/SPIR-V support for machine learning / AI software but NVIDIA has been working on improvements too for enhancing Vulkan-powered machine learning software. The outlook for using Vulkan within machine learning s...

2025-03-02 10:00

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TurnkeyML 6.0 Released With OpenAI-Compatible Server, Other Changes

Back in 2023 ONNX and AMD announced TurnkeyML as an "AI insights toolchain". There hasn't been too much news about TurnkeyML since then and they now describe the project itself as a "no-code AI toolchain" while this week brought the release of the big ...

2025-03-02 06:32

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ARM Linux Kernel May Shift To Generic Entry Code: Less Assembly But Lower Performance

A pull request was sent out on Friday that could potentially land for the upcoming Linux 6.15 kernel to transition ARM's kernel entry code from some architecture-specific Assembly over to using the generic entry code path. It means more unification and...

2025-03-02 06:16

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SDL 3.2.6 Released With HiDPI Icons & Color Management On Wayland

Following the official SDL 3 release back in January, SDL 3.2.6 was released this weekend as the newest iteration of this widely-used software/hardware abstraction layer that is commonly leveraged by cross-platform games...

2025-03-02 06:02

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Steam Survey For February 2025 Shows A Big Drop To Linux Use

Back during January Steam on Linux dropped by 0.23% to a 2.06% marketshare while overnight the numbers were published for February 2025.....

2025-03-02 05:22

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Linux's New Way Of Informing User-Space Over Hung GPUs May Become More Useful

Last month I wrote about new code slated to be added for Linux 6.15 that would provide a cross-driver/standardized means of reporting to user-space over hung GPUs. For the likes of the AMD and Intel graphics drivers initially, user-space will be notifi...

2025-03-01 15:09

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AMD Readies More Graphics Driver Improvements For Linux 6.15

Last week AMD sent out a big batch of new graphics driver code for Linux 6.15 including new GPU support, OEM i2c support for RGB lighting and other features, and other updates. Another round of AMDGPU/AMDKFD feature code targeting the upcoming Linux 6....

2025-03-01 08:45

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Intel Core 2 CPUs Have Been Affected By An Annoying Linux Kernel Bug For 5+ Years

A fix was merged to the Linux 6.14 kernel on Friday -- and also for back-porting to existing Linux stable kernels over the coming days -- for fixing an annoying problem with Intel Core 2 processors. The problem, which was introduced to the Linux kernel...

2025-03-01 06:41

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NVIDIA Blackwell, Continued AMD Zen 5 Benchmarking & Rust Drama Dominated February

While a shorter month, there were still 263 original articles published on Phoronix during February. A lot of exciting hardware in the lab to notable open-source milestones and interesting kernel developments made for an interesting month besides the u...

2025-03-01 06:38

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GNOME's Mutter Now Supports The Wayland Cursor Shape Protocol

Racing toward the GNOME 48 finish line, developers have remained busy squeezing some remaining bits into place for this big open-source desktop release...

2025-03-01 06:26

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KDE Developers Begin More Feature Work On Plasma 6.4

With the Plasma 6.3 desktop settling down and the early bugs being addressed, KDE developers have begun spending more time on feature work toward the Plasma 6.4 release...

2025-03-01 06:12

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DeepSeek Develops Linux File-System For Better AI Training & Inference Performance

Chinese AI company DeepSeek made public this week 3FS, a Linux FUSE-based file-system intended for allowing better AI training and inference performance...

2025-02-28 20:36

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