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AMD Bus Lock Trap Support Merged For Linux 6.13

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 November, 2024

Going back to early in the year AMD Linux engineers began preparing support for a new Bus Lock Trap feature with Zen 5 CPUs. With the in-development Linux 6.13 kernel that support is being merged...

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Sched_Ext Changes Merged For Linux 6.13 With LLC & NUMA Awareness

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 November, 2024

One of the most prominent new features in Linux 6.12 was the merging of sched_ext for allowing extensible scheduler innovations by altering the scheduling behavior through (e)BPF programs. With the Linux 6.13 kernel there are some nice refinements to this extensible scheduler class...

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XFS With Linux 6.13 Sees Major Rework To Real-Time Volumes

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 November, 2024

The XFS file-system updates were merged yesterday for the ongoing Linux 6.13 merge window...

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Intel NPU Library v1.4 Adds Turbo Mode & Tensor Operations

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 November, 2024

Version 1.4 of the Intel NPU Acceleration Library was released today as the Python library for use on Windows and Linux for interacting with the Intel Neural Processing Unit (NPU) for AI offloading on recent Intel Core Ultra processors...

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New Sound Hardware Support In Linux 6.13

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 November, 2024

SUSE engineer and sound subsystem maintainer Takashi Iwai has submitted all of the sound driver updates for the Linux 6.13 kernel...

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Nice File Performance Optimizations Coming With Linux 6.13

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 November, 2024

In addition to the pull requests managed by Microsoft engineer Christian Brauner for VFS untorn writes for atomic writes with XFS and EXT4, Tmpfs case insensitive file/folder support, new Rust file abstractions, and the renewed multi-grain timestamps work, another interesting Linux 6.13 pull submitted by Brauner revolves around VFS file enhancements...

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Faster Raspberry Pi Graphics & Intel Xe3 Enablement Starts With Linux 6.13 DRM Changes

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21 November, 2024

The Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) subsystem updates have been submitted for the Linux 6.13 merge window in bringing many updates to the open-source kernel graphics/display drivers as well as the accelerator subsystem...

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ReiserFS Has Been Deleted From The Linux Kernel

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21 November, 2024

Linus Torvalds just merged the change to the Linux 6.13 kernel that goes ahead and deletes the ReiserFS file-system from the source tree. Removing ReiserFS from the Linux tree lightens the kernel by 32.8k lines of code...

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Mesa 24.3 Released With Many Open-Source Vulkan Driver Improvements

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21 November, 2024

Mesa 24.3 has managed to make it out today, one week ahead of the previous release plans due to the lack of any major blocker bugs appearing. Mesa 24.3 has a lot of new feature work on the contained open-source Vulkan drivers as well as evolutionary improvements to their OpenGL drivers and other user-space 3D driver code...