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Arch Linux Powered Endeavour OS "Mercury Neo" Released

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 23 March

The Endeavour OS enthusiast Linux distribution built atop Arch Linux is out with its March 2025 ISO refresh under the codename "Mercury Neo" for this spin featuring the latest software packages...

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LLVM/Clang Compiler Being Adapted For AVX10.2 Now Making 512-bit Support Mandatory

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 23 March

Coming out this week was an updated AVX10 whitepaper from Intel with the surprising decision that 512-bit floating point and integer support is no longer considered optional for AVX10.2. AVX10.2 now mandates 128 / 256 / 512-bit support and in turn also dropped the 256-bit embedded rounding support with the focus on 512-bit. The LLVM/Clang compiler had seen its AVX10 support designed around Intel's original AVX10 design assumptions and thus now is being modified to address these changes...

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DesignWare HDMI Input Support & Qualcomm Iris Video Decode Driver Ready For Linux 6.15

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 23 March

Among the earliest of pull requests this week ahead of the Linux 6.15 merge window expected to begin tomorrow were the media subsystem updates. In addition to continuing to improve the common "uvcvideo" web camera driver and other routine refinements, there is also some new media hardware support slated to be included as part of the Linux 6.15 kernel...

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Rust Additions For GCC 15 Bring Support For if-let Statements, Other Improvements

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 23 March

This past week a lot of new code for the Rust "gccrs" front-end began being merged for the upcoming GCC 15.1 stable release... The Polonius borrow checker landed along with other big improvements to the Rust code ahead of this annual GNU Compiler Collection release. A third round was merged on Friday adding yet more gccrs features...

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Sched_Ext Changes Submitted For Linux 6.15

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 23 March

The sched_ext code for extensible scheduler support and being able to quickly prototype new Linux kernel scheduling improvements continues evolving nicely since its much anticipated merging to the mainline kernel in 2024. Ahead of the imminent Linux 6.15 merge window, the sched_ext feature updates were sent out today for this next kernel cycle...

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FreeDesktop.org GitLab Transitions To New Server Infrastructure

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 23 March

Last weekend FreeDesktop.org began transitioning to their new server/cloud infrastructure after recently finding out their sponsored Equinix Metal services were shutting down. Following the complex migration process this past week, FreeDesktop.org GitLab is up and running on the Hetzner server infrastructure in Germany...

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Linux 6.15 Plans To Drop Support For A Useless CRC-32 Checksum In The Kernel Image

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 March

Ingo Molnar began sending out the pull requests today for the upcoming Linux 6.15 merge window of code areas he oversees for the Linux kernel. Among those early pulls are of the x86/build updates, which includes removing some seemingly useless CRC-32 checksum code from the kernel...

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AMD RDNA 3.5 Cleaner Shader Support Prepped For Linux 6.15

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 March

Ahead of the imminent Linux 6.15 merge window expected to begin next week, a batch of AMDGPU/AMDKFD Radeon kernel driver updates were sent out on Friday for this next kernel cycle. It's mostly about bug fixes but does container cleaner shader support for AMD RDNA 3.5 graphics...

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KDE KWin Lands FIFO v1 Wayland Support, GNOME 48 Squeezed In XDG Toplevel Drag v1

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 March

There is some new Wayland protocol support activity this week worth mentioning for both the KDE Plasma and GNOME desktops...