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Another Round Of Rust Compiler Improvements Merged For GCC 15.1

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 March

A few days ago there was a batch of 145 patches merged for the upcoming GCC 15 compiler release to enhance the Rust "gccrs" front-end. That big set of patches merged the Polonius borrow checker and made other notable improvements. Today another 144 patches for enhancing gccrs were merged ahead of the GCC 15.1 stable release due out in the coming weeks...

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Intel Wrapping Up Family 18 / Family 19 CPU Model Preparations Ahead Of Linux 6.15

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 March

Over the past year Intel has been working to prepare the Linux kernel for the end of the "Family 6" CPU era. There's been a big rework to the Intel CPU model handling within the Linux kernel given that "Family 6" has been in use since the 1990s and moving forward Intel CPUs will appear in Family 19 like Diamond Rapids along with Family 18 as part of the new CPU identification. Thus a lot of Linux kernel checks need to be reconfigured for the multi-family Intel handling. With Linux 6.15 it looks like most of that will be finally wrapped up...

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Beyond The ROCm Software, AMD Has Been Making Great Strides In Documentation & Robust Containers

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 March

AMD recently allowed me some time with their AMD Accelerator Cloud (AAC) leveraging multiple Instinct MI300X accelerators. During this brief opportunity to try out their latest software advancements with the Instinct MI300X and the ROCm compute stack, one of the most striking takeaways was their documentation improvements compared to previous forays into ROCm+Instinct compute. In addition, AMD is now offering more robust container options for easier Instinct compute deployments with more software options available and being more regularly updated.

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Intel AVX10 Drops Optional 512-bit: No AVX10 256-bit Only E-Cores In The Future

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 March

Intel updated their AVX10 whitepaper and associated open-source compiler patches around this next Advanced Vector Extensions standard... While AVX10 had intended to allow either 256-bit or 512-bit modes depending upon processor capabilities, Intel has dropped the 256-bit-only approach and going for 512-bit everywhere. Thus it would seem to indicate that Intel E cores of the future will properly support AVX 512-bit operation!..

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Linux 6.15 To Support The Airoha NPU - A RISC-V Network Processor Unit

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 March

Patches queued up this month into net-next ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.15 kernel merge window add support for the Airoha NPU... Not to be confused with the Neural Processing Unit (NPU) that is all the rage these days for helping with AI, the Airoha NPU is a Network Processor Unit...

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DRM Sync Object Optimizations Show Minor Benefit On The Steam Deck

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 March

Tvrtko Ursulin of Igalia has been working on some optimizations to the DRM synchronization object "drm_syncobj" code for slightly more efficient use on the CPU side...

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NVIDIA 570.133.07 Linux Driver Released With A Few Fixes

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18 March

In addition to NVIDIA's GTC conference going on right now, they also released today an updated R570 Linux driver build...

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Asahi Lina Pausing Work On Apple GPU Linux Driver Development

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18 March

Following Hector Martin stepping down from the Asahi Linux project that he founded for bringing Linux to Apple Silicon hardware, Asahi Lina announced today that she is pausing work on all of the Apple GPU driver development she had been pursuing for Asahi Linux with the open-source DRM kernel driver as well as Mesa contributions...

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Ubuntu Developers Discuss Abandoning Mailing Lists For Discourse

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18 March

Ubuntu developers decided a few months back to switch from IRC to Matrix for real-time communication needs. The newest fundamental shift being discussed by Ubuntu developers is shifting from mailing list discussions to Ubuntu Discourse for mailing list like written communications...