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Linux 6.16 Upstreams Support For Hardware-Wrapped Encryption Keys

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 27 May

Google engineer Eric Biggers took time away from all his impressive crypto performance optimizations to the Linux kernel for modern Intel and AMD CPUs to spend time getting support for hardware-wrapped inline encryption keys into the mainline kernel. Google's Android kernel has been carrying this functionality for several years to help enhance security and will now be found in the mainline kernel too for capable platforms...

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Intel APX Ready With Linux 6.16, Outdated Intel CPU Microcode Reporting Merged

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 27 May

Merged for the Linux 6.16 kernel are all of the x86 core enhancements that provide a variety of benefits to Intel as well as AMD processors...

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AlmaLinux 10.0 Stable Released - Unlike RHEL 10, It Continues Supporting x86-64-v2 CPUs

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 27 May

Building off the recent release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.0, AlmaLinux 10.0 stable is now available as this RHEL-derived popular community Linux OS alternative...

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Wayland ext-background-effect-v1 Merged For Background Blur Feature

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 27 May

After being under discussion since January of 2024, the ext-background-effect-v1 staging protocol proposal by KDE developer Xaver Hugl has finally been merged to the Wayland-Protocols repository. This new Wayland protocol is intended for handling effects like background blur on terminals...

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ROCm GPU Compute Performance With AMD Ryzen AI MAX+ "Strix Halo"

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 27 May

This month I have been running many Linux benchmarks of the HP ZBook Ultra G1a with the very exciting Ryzen AI MAX+ PRO 395 Strix Halo SoC featuring the powerful Radeon 8060S graphics. While there were the very promising OpenGL and Vulkan benchmarks shown so far from AMD Strix Halo on Linux -- including the very compelling performance compared to Microsoft Windows 11 -- many are interested in the ROCm compute aspects for Strix Halo. Here are some of the first benchmarks of the GPU compute performance for the Ryzen AI MAX+ PRO with the new ROCm 6.4.1 release compared to Strix Point as well as Intel Xe2 Lunar Lake on their Compute Runtime stack.

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XFS Atomic Writes Support Merged For Linux 6.16

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 27 May

Building off the atomic write preparations that landed in prior Linux kernel versions, merged for the Linux 6.16 cycle is atomic write support for the XFS file-system...

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Linux 6.16 Adds "X86_NATIVE_CPU" Option To Optimize Your Kernel Build For Your CPU

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 27 May

The X86_NATIVE_CPU Kconfig build time option has been merged for the Linux 6.16 merge window as an easy means of enforcing "-march=native" compiler behavior on AMD and Intel processors to optimize your kernel build for the local CPU architecture/family of your system...

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Rav1e v0.8 Released For Rust-Based AV1 Encoding

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 27 May

Rav1e v0.8 was released on Monday for this self-proclaimed "fastest and safest AV1 encoder" that makes use of the Rust programming language...

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Linux 6.16 Lands "rt_group_sched" Option, Faster Core Offlining & Scheduler Improvements

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 27 May

The many scheduler updates have been merged for the Linux 6.16 kernel which include a wide assortment of different fixes and new improvements...