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Feature-Packed systemd 257 Nears Release With RC3 Availability

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 28 November, 2024

Systemd 257 is nearing release as the next major feature release for this widely-used init system and software suite on Linux systems...

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exFAT Driver With Linux 6.13 Reduces FAT Chain Traversal For Better Performance

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 28 November, 2024

For those making use of the Microsoft exFAT file-system on Linux systems, the upcoming Linux 6.13 kernel brings an optimization that will help some operations by reducing the FAT chain traversal...

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AMD Begins Work Upstreaming More Versal 2 SoC Support For Linux

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 27 November, 2024

Back in April AMD announced the Versal Gen 2 Adaptive SoCs for AI-driven embedded systems. In preparing for Versal2 evaluation kits expected around the middle of the year and production silicon by the end of 2025, AMD software engineers have begun ramping up their open-source and upstream-focused Linux driver support...

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RISC-V Changes For Linux 6.13 Deliver Pointer Masking In User-Space

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 27 November, 2024

The RISC-V CPU port updates have been sent out for the in-development Linux 6.13 kernel...

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Corsair Vengeance Airflow Memory Cooling For DDR5 Server RAM

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 27 November, 2024

For those building your own server around the new Intel Xeon 6 "Granite Rapids" or AMD EPYC 9005 "Turin" platforms and using DDR5-6000/DDR5-6400 memory (or the interesting MRDIMM-8000 memory with Xeon 6 P), one of the factors you need to be much more mindful about than in the past is that at least the initial generation of DDR5-6000+ memory is running much hotter than prior server memory. There's been guidance from Intel and AMD as well as sever vendors about the thermal considerations with DDR5-6000/DDR5-6400 and extra precautions. Here's a look at the DDR5-6000 thermals on a recent AMD EPYC 9655 Turin server build and then taming the DDR5 server memory modules using Corsair Vengeance Airflow Memory Cooling Fans.

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Linux 6.13 SoundWire Preps DisCo 2.0 Support

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 27 November, 2024

The SoundWire subsystem updates were sent out today for the Linux 6.13 kernel. This cycle brings new AMD driver support as well as supporting the MIPI DisCo 2.0 specification...

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Microsoft Makes An Interesting Improvement To Kernel Modules With Linux 6.13

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 27 November, 2024

Sent out on Tuesday was the modules pull request for Linux 6.13 that have some low-level improvements but it noted that the biggest kernel modules highlight wasn't in that pull request itself but had been added by way of the memory management pull. This was a change by a Microsoft engineer around caching of kernel modules into huge pages...

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MIPS P8700 RISC-V CPU Support Posted For LLVM Compiler

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 27 November, 2024

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...

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Raspberry Pi Launches The Compute Module 5 For $45 USD

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 27 November, 2024

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