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AMD XDNA Linux Driver Updated As It Nears The Upstream Kernel

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 October, 2024

Back in January AMD published an open-source XDNA Linux kernel driver for supporting their Ryzen AI NPUs. But it wasn't until July that the formal review process for the AMD XDNA driver began as the necessary prerequisite for getting picked up into the mainline Linux kernel. On Friday the fourth iteration of those patches for review were published as it hopefully is closing in on landing within the mainline kernel...

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BeOS-Inspired Haiku Enabling More Intel Hardware & Driving Kernel Optimizations

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 October, 2024

The Haiku open-source operating system project inspired by BeOS is out with their newest monthly development summary to highlight advancements made to this unique OS...

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Intel Panther Lake H EDAC Support Posted For Linux

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 October, 2024

With Intel Core Ultra Lunar Lake systems now shipping and the Linux support largely settled, Intel open-source software engineers have begun ramping up their support for Panther Lake due out in a year...

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AMD Job Posting Confirms More Details Around Their AI GPU Compute Stack Plans

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 October, 2024

A Friday evening job posting has confirmed and reinforced details around their future AI GPU compute stack, presumably what's been referred to as the Unified AI Software Stack...

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KDE Developers Fixing Initial Bugs From Plasma 6.2

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 October, 2024

Following this week's release of KDE Plasma 6.2, the KDE developers are busy addressing some of the initial fallout from this desktop update as well as more feature work aimed at Plasma 6.3...

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AMD To Integrate "Project Caliptra" Into Products Beginning In 2026

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 October, 2024

As another interesting AMD announcement this week following their Advancing AI event yesterday where they launched the EPYC 9005 series and other new hardware, they've continued with a few more soft announcements in the lead-up to the OCP Global Summit happening next week. The latest interesting tid-bit is their plans to incorporate Project Caliptra into their products beginning in 2026...

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Arm Exploring IO_uring For Graphics Drivers For Better Performance & Synchronization

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11 October, 2024

The IO_uring asynchronous I/O API for Linux is quite novel and has proven performance benefits. With time IO_uring has been adapted to other areas of the kernel like networking and now with a proposal raised by an Arm graphics driver engineer, it could potentially be adapted for use by Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) kernel graphics drivers...

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AVX-512 Performance With 256-bit vs. 512-bit Data Path For AMD EPYC 9005 CPUs

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11 October, 2024

Now past the launch day for the AMD EPYC 9005 series server processors and having delivered initial AMD EPYC Zen 5 benchmarks for the EPYC 9575F / EPYC 9755 / EPYC 9965 SKUs, it's onto one of my favorite areas of testing and that is the more focused benchmarks looking at different specific changes/features of new processors. Today under the benchmarking microscope is looking at the new AVX-512 512-bit data path capabilities of 5th Gen AMD EPYC compared to using a 256-bit data path or disabling AVX-512 entirely.

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Intel Xe2 Ultra Joiner, GPU Temperature Reporting & Another Arrow Lake ID For Linux 6.13

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11 October, 2024

The drm-xe-next pull request earlier this week began preparing open-source driver support for Intel Xe3 graphics to premiere with Panther Lake processors. That code is beginning to queue for the upcoming Linux 6.13 cycle. Today a drm-intel-next pull request was sent out to prepare for more Intel Linux kernel graphics driver changes for Linux 6.13...