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openSUSE Tumbleweed Sets Great Example With x86-64-v3 HWCAPS

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 March, 2023

The rolling-release openSUSE Tumbleweed recently began rolling out optional x86-64-v3 optimized packages for those on roughly Intel Haswell or newer systems and wanting to squeeze out maximum performance from their hardware. The selection of x86-64-v3 packages built by openSUSE Tumbleweed is currently rather limited, but hopefully this major Linux distribution joining the HWCAPS party will lead other Linux distributions to follow suit...

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Intel Continues With More Big-Time Optimizations To The Linux Kernel

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 March, 2023

I love Linux kernel patches that mention "massively", use exclamation points when talking about performance, and/or simply mention big speed-ups. Quite often such patches come out of Intel and last week they sent out another great performance optimization patch series to improve additional low-level bits of the kernel...

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Asahi AGX Mesa Driver Prepares For Compute Kernels On Apple Silicon

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 March, 2023

The Asahi "AGX" Gallium3D driver providing open-source OpenGL driver support for Apple M1/M2 graphics hardware has seen preliminary work merged into Mesa 23.1 for supporting compute shaders/kernels...

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AMD Continues Linux Upstreaming For Pensando Elba SoC

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 March, 2023

Last year AMD acquired Pensando in part for adding DPUs to their portfolio from this young company that only exited its stealth mode in 2019. While sadly it's missed out on the Linux 6.3 cycle, AMD-Pensando engineers continue work on upstreaming support for their "Elba" SoC into the mainline Linux kernel...

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LibreELEC 11 Released With GBM/V4L2 HDR Support On x86_64, More ARM Hardware

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 March, 2023

LibreELEC 11 is out today as the newest version of this Linux distribution that is purpose-built for an HTPC-oriented experience powered by the recent Kodi 20 HTPC/PVR software...

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Linux 6.3-rc1 Brings File-System Optimizations, HID-BPF, More Intel & AMD Features

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 March, 2023

The merge window for Linux 6.3 is now over and Linus Torvalds just released Linux 6.3-rc1...

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Linux 6.3 Drops Support For The Intel ICC Compiler

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 March, 2023

On this last day of the Linux 6.3 kernel merge window, Linus Torvalds merged the patch dropping support for Intel (ICC) compiler support. Specifically this is Intel's long-standing ICC compiler now known as the "Intel C++ Compiler Classic" prior to its transition to being LLVM/Clang-based with the modern Intel DPC++ compiler...

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Testing The First PCIe Gen 5.0 NVMe SSD On Linux Has Been Disappointing

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 March, 2023

This past week saw the first two consumer PCIe 5.0 NVMe solid-state drives released to retail: the Gigabyte AORUS Gen5 10000 and the Inland TD510. I've been testing the Inland TD510 2TB Gen 5 NVMe SSD the past few days. While in simple I/O testing it can hit speeds almost up to 10,000 MB/s reads and writes, for more complex workloads it quickly dropped against popular PCIe Gen 4.0 NVMe SSD options. In my testing thus far of this first consumer Gen5 NVMe SSD it's left me far from impressed.

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Latest System76 Intel-Powered Laptops Added To Coreboot

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 March, 2023

Merged on Saturday to upstream Coreboot was support for some of the latest Intel Alderlake (and signs of Raptor Lake) powered laptops from Linux vendor System76...