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Intel Panther Lake Display Support Squeezing Into Linux 6.13

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

Queued up over the past month into DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 6.13 kernel cycle has been initial support for Xe3 graphics to be found with Panther Lake processors. The initial Xe3 graphics driver support patches have been trickling in while the final drm-intel-next pull ahead of the Linux 6.13 merge window has readied support for actually being able to light up a display connected to Xe3 LPD graphics with Panther Lake...

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TOUPUWAN 30-Slot Laptop/Tablet Storage Cart

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

To clear up the ever-growing stack of laptops, I recently bought a TOUPUWAN 30-Slot Laptop/Tablet Storage Cart. This laptop/tablet storage cart can accommodate 32 devices in total while slots for up to 30 laptops/tablets 16.3-inches in size. It does have built-in power strips as well to easily facilitate charging of the devices while securely stored away but for my purposes I was just looking for something to better organize the mess of laptops I only occasionally pull out when running new Linux laptop benchmarks.

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Intel Releases x86-simd-sort 6.0 For Speedy AVX2/AVX-512 Sorting, PyTorch Now Using It

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

The x86-simd-sort project from Intel has been an interesting open-source software effort for much faster number sorting by using AVX-512. There's been lightning fast number sorting with AVX-512 and AVX2 code paths also added to broaden the appeal in helping CPUs without AVX-512. Projects like Numpy have been making use of this library while today x86-simd-sort 6.0 was released and also comes a few days after PyTorch has begun using this library too...

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Linux Preps New AMD ERAPS Feature With EPYC Turin To Benefit Performance

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

Posted to the Linux kernel mailing list last week and now queued already via tip/tip.git's "x86/bugs" Git branch is support for a new AMD CPU feature we haven't heard about until now... ERAPS, the Enhanced Return Address Prediction Security...

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Manjaro Linux Working On "Manjaro Data Donor" As New Data Collection Tool

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

Arch-based Manjaro Linux is working on Manjaro Data Donor "MDD" as a new data collection tool of its users. This is intended to succeed their former ping-based solution for user counting plus incorporate hardware/software data collection on users. Once deployed, this will be opt-out handling for the data collection...

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Fujitsu Monaka CPU Target Added To GCC 15 Compiler

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

Fujitsu has upstreamed support for their next-gen "Monaka" Armv9 processor into the GNU Compiler Collection codebase in time for the GCC 15 release coming out early next year...

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F2FS File-System Adding Device Aliasing Feature For Nifty Uses

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

The Flash-Friendly File-System (F2FS) is adding a device aliasing file feature that could appear in the upcoming Linux v6.13 merge window...

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Platform Profile Support Coming For Newer Dell/Alienware Laptops With Linux 6.13

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

Select newer Dell/Alienware laptops with a "WMAX" thermal interface will see ACPI Platform Profile support now exposed with the upcoming Linux 6.13 cycle...

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AMD Posts New Linux Mitigation Handling For SRSO/Inception

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

AMD Linux engineer Borislav Petkov kicked off the new week by volleying a patch for adjusting the Speculative Return Stack Overflow (SRSO, a.k.a. "Inception") vulnerability mitigation handling for capabilities to be found with affected processors running on newer CPU microcode...