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Linus Torvalds Comes Out Against "Completely Broken" x86_64 Feature Levels

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 December, 2024

With the new Linux kernel patches posted yesterday for cleaning up x86 32-bit kernels on x86_64 CPUs as part of that patch series was introducing new Kconfig build options around the x86_64 micro-architecture feature levels. It turns out though that Torvalds is completely against how the x86_64 feature levels are handled by the compiler toolchain folks and doesn't want to see it invading the kernel...

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Imagination PowerVR Driver Being Extended To Work On RISC-V

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 December, 2024

The Linux 6.8 kernel merged the Imagination PowerVR driver as a new open-source driver for supporting the PowerVR "Rogue" graphics architecture and being developed in tandem by Imagination Tech with their upstream Mesa Vulkan driver. Initially this PowerVR driver was catering to ARM SoCs with the Rogue graphics while now the open-source driver is being extended to work on RISC-V too...

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New AMD XDNA Linux Driver Patches Add Ryzen AI NPU6 IP, Other Improvements

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 December, 2024

The "AMDXDNA" accelerator driver for supporting the Ryzen AI NPU is set to be introduced in the Linux 6.14 kernel next year. Ahead of that debut, a new set of patches from AMD surfaced on Wednesday to provide fixes and code improvements as well as introducing support for newer Ryzen AI "NPU6" IP...

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Linux Patches Would Allow RISC-V To Use A 64K Page Size

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 December, 2024

Patches from a Bytedance engineer for the Linux kernel allow for overcoming the current 4K page size limitation of RISC-V and introduce a new 64K page size option...

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Mesa 24.3.1 Released With Many Graphics Driver Bug Fixes

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 December, 2024

Building off the Mesa 24.3 release from two weeks ago is now Mesa 24.3.1 as the first stable point release following their usual bi-weekly release regiment...

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Intel Linux Display Driver Being Adapted For DRM Panic "Blue Screen of Death" Support

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 4 December, 2024

The DRM Panic infrastructure has been in the Linux kernel for several releases now and allows for a kernel-based experience similar to Windows' "Blue Screen of Death as well as more recently allowing QR code kernel error messages and other features. The Intel kernel DRM driver has seen some patches for enabling DRM Panic support...

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NVIDIA vs. AMD GPU Workstation Performance For Blender 4.3

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 4 December, 2024

With the recent release of Blender 4.3 for this leading open-source 3D modeling software, I've been carrying out some fresh NVIDIA vs. AMD GPU benchmarks for accelerated rendering across several different popular benchmark scenes.

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Debian 13 Desktop Theme Finalized Ahead Of Next Year's Release

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 4 December, 2024

As a follow-up to last month's article around the Debian 13 release processes continuing and desktop artwork voting underway for Debian 13 "Trixie", the winning desktop theme/artwork was announced today...

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OpenVPN DCO Looks Like It Might Be Ready For Linux 6.14 To Speed-Up VPN Performance

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 4 December, 2024

In development for several years has been the OpenVPN DCO Linux kernel module for data channel offload (DCO) capabilities to provide for much faster virtual private networking (VPN) performance. It's looking like the lengthy review process on OpenVPN DCO is about wrapping up and leaving hope that it will be ready to premiere in next year's Linux 6.14 kernel...