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Vulkan 1.3.297 Introduces VK_EXT_present_mode_fifo_latest_ready

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9 October, 2024

Slipping under my radar until now was the Vulkan API 1.3.297 spec update released last week that introduces a new extension, VK_EXT_present_mode_fifo_latest_ready...

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Windows 11 vs. Ubuntu 24.10 Performance For Intel Core Ultra 7 Lunar Lake

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9 October, 2024

Following my recent Intel Core Ultra 7 200V "Lunar Lake" Linux benchmarks and looking at the Xe2 Lunar Lake graphics (including Windows 11 vs. Linux already), you may be wondering about the Lunar Lake CPU performance between Windows and Linux... Here are some benchmarks of the ASUS Zenbook S 14 with Core Ultra 7 256V under Windows 11 and Ubuntu 24.10 Linux.

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Microsoft Continues Working On Hyper-V Dom0 Support For Linux

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9 October, 2024

Microsoft Linux engineers have continued preparing the Linux kernel to support Hyper-V Dom0 for Linux to run as the root partition...

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GNOME Triple Buffering May Need To Be Re-Engineered - Helping NVIDIA Performance

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9 October, 2024

The long-in-development GNOME triple buffering support that is patched into the Ubuntu and Debian builds and available for years in patch form might need to undergo a redesign. That's to better accommodate the NVIDIA Linux driver and likely help other non-Mesa graphics drivers too...

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Intel Revs Linux Driver Patches To Fend Off PCIe Thermal Issues Via Bandwidth Reduction

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9 October, 2024

Originally published last summer were patches from Intel for the Linux kernel to introduce a PCI Express bandwidth controller Linux driver to provide a PCIe cooling mechanism via bandwidth reduction to devices in order to prevent thermal issues. One year later this driver continues to be worked on and today brought the eighth iteration of these patches...

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GCC 15 Un-Deprecates Itanium IA-64 Linux Support

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9 October, 2024

The GCC 14 compiler marked Itanium IA-64 support as obsolete with plans to remove that Intel architecture in GCC 15. But for now at least the Itanium Linux compiler support has seen some reprieve with it being un-deprecated...

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NTFS Driver Lands Some Late Feature Enhancements For Linux 6.12

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

While the Linux 6.12 merge window has been closed for more than one week, the modern NTFS "NTFS3" driver has seen some late feature enhancements as well as some fixes merged today for this new kernel version...

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Arm's Guarded Control Stack "GCS" Support Looks Like It Will Be Ready For Linux 6.13

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

For more than one year Arm engineers have been working on Guarded Control Stack "GCS" support for the Linux kernel as a means of protecting against return-oriented programming (ROP) sttacks with modern AArch64 processors. It looks like for Linux 6.13 this Arm GCS support will be ready for upstreaming...

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Intel Xeon 6980P 1S Performance With DDR5-6400/MRDIMM-8800

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

With the Xeon 6980P Granite Rapids benchmarking at Phoronix the past few weeks it's been in a dual socket (2S / 2P) configuration. For those curious about the Intel Xeon 6980P 128-core server performance for a single socket (1S) configuration, here are those complementary results out today and for both DDR5-6400 and MRDIMM-8800 memory configurations. Thus a well-rounded look at the single Xeon 6980P performance compared to other single and dual socket Intel Xeon and AMD EPYC server processors.