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Raspberry Pi Announces rpi-image-gen To Help Craft Custom Software Images

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21 March

Following a slew of hardware announcements in the past few months like the RP2350 shipping, Raspberry Pi 5 16GB, Raspberry Pi Monitor, and Raspberry Pi 500, today they have a new software announcement. Today they formally announced "rpi-image-gen" as a new tool to help customers in crafting customized software OS images...

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Linux 6.14 Sees Last Minute Fix For A Two Year Old Regression Causing A 30% Performance Drop

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21 March

Submitted today ahead of the Linux 6.14 stable release expected Sunday is a lone scheduler fix for the kernel. This patch is for reverting a change made to the Linux kernel two years ago that ended up regressing some workloads with a significant performance hit...

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AMD Announces Open-Source "GAIA" For GenAI But Currently Windows-Only

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21 March

AMD on Thursday announced GAIA for "Generative AI Is Awesome" as a means of easily running local large language models (LLMs) on Ryzen AI PCs with the XDNA NPU. GAIA provides an easy software demonstration for Ryzen AI capabilities but sadly for the moment is limited to Microsoft Windows platforms...

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ASUS ROG Flow Z13 Improvements For Linux, RGB Controls For The ROG Ally

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21 March

A set of eleven patches being worked on for the ASUS HID and platform drivers work to enhance the support for the AMD Strix Halo powered ROG Flow Z13 (2025) laptop as well as adding RGB control support for the ROG Ally gaming handheld...

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Dynamic EPP & Raw EPP Features Coming To AMD P-State Driver

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21 March

The AMD P-State Linux kernel driver for CPU frequency scaling with modern Ryzen processors has been working out quite well and proving very effective over the prior ACPI CPUFreq generic driver use. Beyond recently being extended to becoming the default for EPYC 9005 "Turin" processrs, AMD P-State has recently been seeing some patches for additional feature work...

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Vulkan 1.4.311 Released With New Extension For BFloat16

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21 March

The Vulkan 1.4.311 specification update is out today with a handful of issues resolved with various clarifications and other subtle refinements. Plus two new extensions...

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Intel Updates Advanced Performance Extensions "APX" Code For The Linux Kernel

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21 March

In addition to Intel software engineers this week being busy doing a late restructuring of AVX10 support in moving away from possible 256-bit maximum vector register size (a great move and still so excited to see this materialize!), there are also Intel engineers continuing work on enabling Advanced Performance Extensions (APX) on the Linux kernel side...

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The Most Interesting Linux 6.14 Features From NTSYNC To AMD Ryzen AI & Rust Abstractions

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 20 March

Barring any last minute issues or hesitation by Linus Torvalds, the Linux 6.14 kernel is aiming for releasing as stable this coming Sunday on 23 March. Here's a reminder about some of the most interesting changes to find with Linux 6.14...

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Mesa 25.0.2 Changes Range From Fixing Soft FP64 For Old AMD GPUs To RX 9070 Fixes

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 20 March

Even amid the ongoing FreeDesktop.org GitLab cloud/server migration, Eric Engestrom has managed to release Mesa 25.0.2 on schedule as the newest stable release for these open-source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers for Linux systems...