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Sway 1.10 Released With GPU Reset Recovery & Other Wayland Enhancements

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

Sway 1.10 released on Sunday as the newest version of this i3-inspired Wayland compositor for the Linux desktop...

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Linux 6.12-rc5 Released With Intel LAM Disabled, ASUS Lunar Lake Laptop Performance Fix

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

Following a busy week of kernel drama stemming from the Russian sanctions impacting Linux maintainers, Linus Torvalds is out with the Linux 6.12-rc5 weekly test candidate...

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Linux Working On A Counter To Keep Track Of The Number Of Hung Tasks Since Boot

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

Sent out in original patch form this past week and already iterated to a second version this Sunday, a new proposal is underway to introduce "hung_task_detect_count" as a convenient means of tracking the number of times hung tasks are detected since boot...

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Linux 6.12-rc5 Disabling Intel's Linear Address Masking "LAM" Due To Security Concerns

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

Intel merged Linear Address Masking into the Linux kernel last year as a means of allowing user-space to store metadata within some bits of pointers without masking it out before use. LAM can be useful for virtual machines, sanitizers / profiling / memory tagging, and other uses. While the brand new Intel Arrow Lake and Lunar Lake CPUs support LAM, the Linux kernel is now disabling LAM out of security concerns...

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Intel's PCIe Cooling Driver Ready For Linux 6.13 To Reduce Bandwidth When Running Hot

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

For the past year Intel software engineers have been developing a PCIe cooling driver to reduce the PCIe link speed to cope with thermal issues. In the future with PCI Express 6.0 this driver may be further adapted to also reduce the PCIe link width when encountering thermal problems. This cooling driver is now ready for merging with the upcoming Linux 6.13 kernel...

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Linux NETFS Patches Help With CIFS Performance, Single Blob Objects

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

The Linux NETFS code as a network file-system helper library is seeing patches to help enhance the read performance for solutions like CIFS as well as adding single blob object support...

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Vulkan 1.3.300 Delivers New Cooperative Matrix Extension From NVIDIA

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 26 October, 2024

Vulkan 1.3.300 debuted on Friday with a handful of fixes and one new extension...

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Initial Intel Xe3 OpenGL & Vulkan Driver Code Submitted For Mesa 24.3

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 26 October, 2024

With Linux 6.13 there is going to be the initial kernel graphics driver support for Xe3 in integrated form to be found with next-gen Panther Lake processors. Merged today for Mesa 24.3 this quarter is the initial OpenGL and Vulkan driver enablement for Xe3 graphics...

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ASUS WMI Fix Submitted For Linux 6.12-rc5 To Handle Lunar Lake Performance Issue

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 26 October, 2024

Submitted today were a set of x86 platform driver fixes for merging ahead of the Linux 6.12-rc5 release due out on Sunday. For the most part mostly mundane fixes. But notable is an ASUS WMI fix to address the Core Ultra 200V "Lunar Lake" performance issue I've pointed out now in several articles...