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Intel Spots A 3888.9% Performance Improvement In The Linux Kernel From One Line Of Code

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 8 November, 2024

Intel's Linux kernel test robot has reported a 3888.9% performance improvement in the mainline Linux kernel as of this past week...

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Mesa 24.3 Code Branched, Mesa 25.0 Enters Development

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 8 November, 2024

Mesa 24.3 feature development is now over and Mesa 25.0 has entered development with Mesa Git...

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AMX-AVX512 Support Merged For LLVM Clang 20 Compiler

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 8 November, 2024

As the latest on the compiler enablement front for Intel's next-gen Xeon "Diamond Rapids processors, LLVM Git has merged support for the AMX-AVX512 instructions for next spring's Clang 20 compiler release...

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Intel Linux Patch Would Report Outdated CPU Microcode As A Security Vulnerability

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 8 November, 2024

A patch posted on Thursday by one of Intel's long-time Linux kernel engineers would begin treating outdated Intel CPU microcode as a security vulnerability that would be reported to user-space via the existing sysfs vulnerabilities reporting...

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NVIDIA GH200 Grace CPU vs. AMD EPYC 9005 Turin CPU Performance

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 7 November, 2024

With the AMD EPYC 9005 "Turin" testing over the past month since launch I have looked at how well the new EPYC Turin CPUs compete against Intel Xeon, how Turin Dense dominates in performance and power efficiency to AmpereOne at 192 cores, and the generational uplift from EPYC Genoa to Turin at the same core counts, among other Turin performance benchmark tests. Up for comparison today is a look at how the NVIDIA Grace CPU performance within the GH200 Superchip compares to the AMD EPYC Turin processors.

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Linux 6.13 To Allow Controlling Zero RPM Feature For Radeon RX 7000 Series GPUs

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 7 November, 2024

Sent out yesterday was an AMDGPU/AMDKFD kernel driver pull request with the last few feature additions and patches slated for the upcoming Linux 6.13 kernel merge window. Alongside other AMD kernel graphics driver updates, the new driver code with Radeon RX 7000 series RDNA3 graphics cards will finally allow controlling the zero RPM fan feature under Linux...

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Linux 6.13 To Drop Fieldbus Just Five Years After Being Merged

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

Merged back in 2019 was the Fieldbus subsystem as a set of network protocols for real-time distributed control of automated industrial systems. But now five years later, Fieldbus is being removed from the mainline Linux kernel since the code hasn't been maintained...

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Linux 6.13 To Enhance Logic For Trusting Built-In Thunderbolt Controllers

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

Due to the possibility of DMA attacks from connected Thunderbolt devices, Linux and other platforms have built up safeguards over the years and different security levels for Thunderbolt to better protect systems having this high speed interface exposing PCIe. With the upcoming Linux 6.13 kernel, the logic of the kernel is being enhanced to better detect and trust built-in Thunderbolt controllers...

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LXQt 2.1 Released With New Wayland Session Component

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

LXQt 2.1 is now available as the latest feature release to this Qt-based lightweight desktop environment. Most significant with LXQt 2.1 is the introduction of the lxqt-wayland-session component...