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MIPS P8700 RISC-V CPU Support Posted For LLVM Compiler

MIPS has begun working on the open-source compiler toolchain support for their P8700 RISC-V based processors. Initial patches posted today bring-up the MIPS P8700 RISC-V support for the LLVM compiler stack...

2024-11-27 06:07

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Raspberry Pi Launches The Compute Module 5 For $45 USD

Days after announcing the Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W for $7, Raspberry Pi today announced the Compute Module 5 at the $45 price point...

2024-11-27 05:33

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LoongArch Wires Up Real-Time Kernel Support & Lazy Preemption

Merged for the Linux 6.12 kernel was the long-awaited real-time "PREEMPT_RT" kernel support and allowing it to be enabled across x86/x86_64, ARM64, and RISC-V CPU architectures. With the Linux 6.13 kernel, LoongArch is joining the RT party...

2024-11-27 05:24

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FSF "Excited" For 802.11n WiFi USB Adapter Costing €50 In 2024 Holiday Shopping Guide

In prior years the Free Software Foundation (FSF) has published an Ethical Tech Giving Guide for holiday shopping where they recommend products like old AMD Opteron motherboards and USB to parallel printer cables that "respect your freedoms" and meet t...

2024-11-26 17:00

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AMD GFX9.4.4 CDNA Firmware Published, More GFX950 Changes Point To Being MI350

There are some new open-source/Linux details to note when it comes to the AMD accelerators in the Instinct "CDNA" land...

2024-11-26 16:26

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F2FS Brings Interesting "Device Aliasing" Feature To Linux 6.13 To Carve Out Partition

The Flash Friendly File-System (F2FS) updates were sent out on Monday for Linux 6.13 and include one very interesting new feature for this file-system: device aliasing as a means of being able to temporarily carve out a portion of the partition for oth...

2024-11-26 14:17

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Granular Power Savings Patches Posted For Common "uvcvideo" Linux Webcam Driver

Google engineer Ricardo Ribalda has proposed a set of patches for the common "uvcvideo" kernel driver that supports UVC-compliant web cameras and the like to provide granular power saving support...

2024-11-26 12:24

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Intel Xe2 Lunar Lake Graphics Compute / OpenCL Performance Looking Great

Now that Linux 6.12 has a fix for the Lunar Lake performance with the ASUS Zenbook I have been using for my Core Ultra 200V series Linux testing as well as there recently being an updated Intel Compute Runtime with Lunar Lake fixes, I have been working...

2024-11-26 10:39

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Ubuntu 25.04 Begins Preparations For GIMP 3.0

With GIMP 3.0-RC1 out for testing since earlier this month, the hope is that GIMP 3.0 stable will in fact ship in time for the release of Ubuntu 25.04 next April. The current GIMP 3.0 release candidate is working its way to Debian Unstable and in turn ...

2024-11-26 09:00

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AMD I3C Controller ACPI Support Added To DesignWare Driver In Linux 6.13

The I3C subsystem updates were submitted for the Linux 6.13 kernel on Monday and include support for another I3C HCI controller used on AMD systems...

2024-11-26 08:26

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3K Lines Of New Rust Infrastructure Code Head Into Linux 6.13

Overnight the Rust for Linux lead developer Miguel Ojeda submitted the big set of Rust infrastructure/toolchain updates for the Linux 6.13 holiday kernel...

2024-11-26 06:37

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Linus Torvalds Improves Futex Code To Improve User-Space Accesses

In between managing all of the pull requests being submitted during this two week long merge window for the Linux 6.13 kernel, Linus Torvalds has merged some of his own code this cycle...

2024-11-26 06:16

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Linux 6.13 RDMA Changes Headlined By NVIDIA's New Data Placement Ordering Feature

The RDMA subsystem updates were sent out last Friday for the ongoing Linux 6.13 kernel cycle. Most notable with the RDMA updates is the NVIDIA Mellanox "MLX5" network driver introducing a new Data Direct Placement (DDP) feature to further help with per...

2024-11-26 06:00

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AMD Talks Up Imminent ROCm 6.3 With Big Performance Gains, New Features

Either due to a mistimed blog post or other factors, a big feature article is out talking up the new ROCm 6.3 features... But the updated ROCm 6.3 open-source GPU compute software doesn't appear to actually be released yet at all their usual sources. I...

2024-11-25 20:33

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Linux 6.13 PCI: AMD Enables PCIe TPH For Zen 5 Servers, Intel Adds PCIe Cooling Driver

Sent out today were the big set of PCI subsystem updates ready to be merged for the Linux 6.13 kernel. Most notable of the PCI updates is PCI Express TLP Processing Hints (TPH) with that kernel support worked on by AMD engineers as part of one of the n...

2024-11-25 16:17

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Linux 6.13 KVM Eliminates An "Awful Idea", Many x86_64 Improvements

The KVM changes were merged yesterday for Linux 6.13 in further enhancing the open-source virtualization stack...

2024-11-25 14:49

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GCC 15 Ends Support For Altera Nios II Embedded Processors

The GCC 15 code compiler that is releasing as stable in the early months of 2025 has removed all support for the Altera Nios II CPU target...

2024-11-25 13:29

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SilverStone XE360-SP5 & XE04-SP5 For Cooling AMD EPYC 9004/9005 4U Servers

With my recent AMD EPYC 9005 1P 4U server build using a Supermicro H13SSL-N motherboard, SilverStone kindly sent over their two Socket SP5 cooling options for AMD EPYC processors: the XE04-SP5 4U-compatible heatsink fan and then the XE360-SP5 AIO liqui...

2024-11-25 11:56

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FUSE Enhancements Submitted For Linux 6.13

The FUSE feature enhancements were submitted today for the Linux 6.13 kernel as part of improving the file-system in user-space capabilities...

2024-11-25 10:30

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Large Folio Patches For EXT4 Show Some Nice Performance Gains

Huawei engineer Zhang Yi posted a set of nine patches today for enabling large folio support for regular files with the EXT4 file-system. These patches enable large folios for EXT4 on regular files except when using FSVERITY, FSCRYPT, or the journaled ...

2024-11-25 08:50

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