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Linux 6.14-rc2 Released With Apple Silicon Maintainer Change, Bcachefs Fixes

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9 February, 2025

The second weekly release candidate of Linux 6.14 is now available for testing as a rather light update for the week...

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Linux Patches Adjust AC Plug/Unplug Behavior During s2idle To Match Windows

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9 February, 2025

A set of patches sent out on Saturday by AMD Linux engineer Mario Limonciello seek to adjust the Linux behavior for laptops/handhelds during AC plug/unplug events during s2idle to better match that of Microsoft Windows 11...

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Curious Intel Linux Driver Maintainer Changes In Recent Days

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9 February, 2025

This week besides the drama over Apple Silicon maintainership for the upstream Linux kernel, in recent days there has also been a number of rather subtle changes to the maintainership of several Intel Linux kernel drivers...

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Intel ISPC 1.26 Compiler Delivers Improved ARM Support

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9 February, 2025

Intel's ISPC project as the Implicit SPMD Program Compiler as this C language variant for Single Program, Multiple Data programming on CPUs and GPUs is out with a new release...

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New Apple Silicon Co-Maintainer Steps Up For The Linux Kernel

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9 February, 2025

This week was the dramatic decision by Asahi Linux lead developer Hector Martin to step down as upstream kernel maintainer for the Apple Silicon (ARM) code following friction with other kernel developers over Rust affairs within the kernel. He still intends to contribute code to Asahi Linux's downstream kernel and Linus Torvalds has already merged the patch dropping him as an upstream maintainer. Now a new co-maintainer has volunteered to help oversee the Apple Silicon code for the mainline kernel...

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NVIDIA Engineer Talks Up sched_ext Linux Scheduler Possibilities At FOSDEM

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 February, 2025

Merged last year for the Linux 6.12 kernel was sched_ext for allowing extensible scheduler possibilities by allowing schedulers to be implemented as eBPF code and dynamically loaded into the kernel. This allows for rapidly developing new schedulers as well as exploring other new possibilities around more intelligent kernel scheduling decisions. Meta, Google, Canonical (Ubuntu), and others have been big proponents of sched_ext and NVIDIA is also increasingly vocalizing their support for these extensible scheduler opportunities...

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Linux 6.14 Features Include The AMDXDNA Ryzen AI Driver, NTSYNC, Uncached Buffered I/O & Much More

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 February, 2025

Now that the Linux 6.14 merge window wrapped up this past weekend with the release of Linux 6.14-rc1, here is a recap of all the great new features, hardware enablement, and other improvements to find with this kernel.

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AMD Announces Open-Source "Schola" Library For Reinforcement Learning

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 February, 2025

AMD announced today the release of Schola 1.0 as an open-source reinforcement learning library that is being made available under an MIT license and as part of their GPUOpen software collection for helping game developers...

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Arch Linux Powered CachyOS Updated With Propeller-Optimized KernelCachyOS also now is de

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 2 February, 2025

The CachyOS Linux distribution that is built atop the rolling-release Arch Linux distribution and has developed a following with enthusiasts and gamers is out with its newest monthly update...