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Loongson To Up Linux Kernel Limit To 2,048 LoongArch CPU Cores

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 7 May

Currently when building the Linux kernel for LoongArch processors there is a maximum limit of 256 CPU cores supported but with a pending patch that limit would be upped to 2,048 CPU cores...

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Linux 6.16 To Introduce Block Write Streams For NVMe Flexible Data Placement "FDP"

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 7 May

Linux block subsystem maintainer Jens Axboe has queued up a set of patches being worked on the past number of months around block write streams for making use of NVMe SSDs supporting the NVMe Flexible Data Placement (FDP) specification...

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Intel Introducing QAT "GEN6" Driver To The Linux Kernel

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 7 May

Intel has readied a new "qat_6xxx" driver for the Linux kernel for supporting QAT GEN6 devices with QuickAssist Technology. QAT GEN6 will presumably be found with upcoming Xeon 6 Clearwater Forest and Diamond Rapids processors while the Linux kernel driver should be introduced for Linux 6.16...

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Intel P-State Energy Aware Scheduling May Be Ready For Lunar Lake

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 7 May

Going back to last year there have been patches for adapting the Intel P-State Linux driver with support for Energy Aware Scheduling (EAS) as what began as an Arm big.LITTLE feature but since being explored for use by the Intel P-State driver for hybrid CPUs without SMT which for the moment means Lunar Lake SoCs. A new version of the patches were posted on Tuesday and likely to be the last refinement to this patch series...

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Valve Releases Updated Proton 10.0 Beta For Testing

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 May

Last week Valve introduced Proton 10.0 beta as the newest version of their Wine-derived software for Steam Play that enables countless Windows games to run well for Linux gamers on the desktop and with the extremely popular Steam Deck. Out today is another Proton 10.0 beta update with some additional bug and regression fixes over what was shipped last week...

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RISC-V LLVM Scheduler Tuning For SpacemiT-X60 On Clang Yields 4~18% Speedups

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 May

The SpacemiT-X60 RISC-V SoC can enjoy some very healthy performance improvements with scheduler definitions now merged for the LLVM/Clang 21 compiler...

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Microsoft Welcomes Fedora Linux As An Official WSL Distro

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 May

Microsoft announced today that Fedora Linux is now treated as an official distribution within their Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) confines...

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Ampere Computing Soft Announces AmpereOne M With 12 Channel DDR5 Memory

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 May

Ampere Computing last year talked up AmpereOne M for 12-channel DDR5 memory and up to 192 cores up from the 8-channel DDR5 memory found with the initial AmpereOne processors. They said at the time AmpereOne M would be shipping in Q4-2024. Now half way into 2025, it looks like they quietly announced the AmpereOne M processors...

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Kurchu Tool Taking Shape For Assembling Fedora / CentOS Linux Distro ISOs

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 May

As an alternative to the likes of the Pungi tool, Kurchu is a newer project within the CentOS/Fedora space for assembling content collections or ISO images of Linux distribution builds. Kurchu is already seeing use by the CentOS Hyperscale SIG for assembling their images while additional functionality continues to be worked on for those wanting to craft their own Fedora/CentOS install images...