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The Performance Gains Brought By Linux 6.15+ & Mesa 25.2 For AMD Strix Halo

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 June

While the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ Strix Halo SoCs have a nice out-of-the-box experience with modern Linux distributions for the Radeon 8050S and Radeon 8060S graphics, if going for the recently-released Linux 6.15 kernel there are some performance gains to enjoy as well as if opting for the latest Mesa 25.2 development code for the latest RadeonSI OpenGL and RADV Vulkan driver support...

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AMD's Kernel Compute Driver "AMDKFD" Can Now Be Enabled On RISC-V

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 June

Following all of the Linux kernel graphics driver features merged last week for the Linux 6.16 kernel, sent out this morning were the initial batch of fixes to the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) code. Besides fixes to these graphics / display / accelerator drivers, there is one new feature: the AMDKFD kernel compute driver can now be enabled on RISC-V systems...

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Apple M2 Pro / Max / Ultra PCIe Support Upstreamed In Linux 6.16

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 June

The many PCI subsystem changes have been merged for the in-development Linux 6.16 merge window...

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Linux 6.16 NFS Client Exposes LOCALIO State Via sysfs

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 June

In addition to the NFS server changes for Linux 6.16 with now supporting larger I/O block sizes, the Network File-System (NFS) client changes were merged this week for this next kernel version...

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More KVM Changes Merged For Linux 6.16: AMD "ALLOWED_SEV_FEATURES" Merged

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 June

Following the Intel TDX host support for KVM being merged for the Linux 6.16 merge window, another batch of Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) changes were merged for the ongoing Linux 6.16 merge window...

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Mesa's Rusticl Lands OpenCL FP16 Half-Float Support

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 June

Mesa's modern Rust-written OpenCL driver for Gallium3D "Rusticl" has closed one of the few remaining gaps with the former Clover OpenCL state tracker. Merged today for Mesa 25.2 is native FP16 support...

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Linux 6.15 & Early Linux 6.16 Delivering Some Additional Gains For AMD Strix Halo

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 June

As some extra benchmarks to put out today for the Phoronix.com 21st birthday, there is some additional data points to share on AMD Strix Halo when using Linux 6.15 stable and the early development state of Linux 6.16 Git ahead of its v6.16-rc1 tagging this weekend. The Linux kernel performance is moving in the right direction at least with this round of testing using the HP ZBook Ultra G1a with Ryzen AI Max+ PRO SoC...

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Proposed Persistent Cache For Block Devices "PCACHE" Ported To DM Framework

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 June

An initial patch series sent back out in April proposed PCACHE as a persistent memory cache for block devices. PCACHE was born out of the CXL block device driver and brings some benefits over the likes of BCache and dm-writecache...

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FreeBSD Developers Deciding What To Do For WiFi With FreeBSD 15: Stable Or Unstable

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 June

FreeBSD developers have been working a lot on their wireless/WiFi driver support in recent months as part of their broader initiative for improving their operating system support for laptops. While a lot of progress has been made on seeing more modern WiFi support and recent WiFi chipsets being enabled, it's still not complete and that puts FreeBSD 15 in a tough position. FreeBSD 15 is set to be released later this year and will likely declare their wireless support as "unstable" to allow time for making future breaking modifications...