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EVBUG Driver Being Dropped From Linux 6.14 - Useless For Years & Known Security Threat

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 23 December, 2024

Linux 6.13 cleared out more than 100k lines of old and unmaintained code while that end of year code cleaning isn't stopping... With Linxu 6.14 at least another old and seemingly useless driver is being gutted from the input subsystem: evbug...

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Intel Engineers Adding GNU Debugger "GDB" Support For Intel GPUs

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 23 December, 2024

Intel engineers are working on contributing upstream support to the GNU Debugger (GDB) for debugging software running on Intel GPUs...

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AMDVLK 2024.Q4.3 Brings Vulkan 1.4 Support, More Game Tuning

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 23 December, 2024

AMD has squeezed in one more open-source Vulkan driver update for the year to benefit Linux gamers and others wanting to use this official AMD Vulkan Linux driver option...

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100+ Linux Benchmarks Of Intel Arrow Lake With New BIOS / 0x114 CPU Microcode

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 December, 2024

This past week Intel published an Intel Core Ultra 200S Series "Arrow Lake" performance status update following mixed reviews since launch around the Arrow Lake gaming performance that were inconsistent with Intel's internal findings. Among Intel's findings detailed in their report this past week were some new BIOS performance optimizations, some misconfigured performance settings in early/reviewer BIOSes, and also some Windows 11 updates being pushed down to help with different performance issues. ASUS already started releasing new BIOSes that incorporate the 0x114 Arrow Lake intended to help the situation. While it's been a Windows-focused issue, I couldn't help but to run Intel Arrow Lake performance comparison benchmarks on Linux with the new microcode / BIOS.

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Linux 6.13-rc4 Released For Kernel Testing Ahead Of The Holidays

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 December, 2024

Linus Torvalds just released the Linux 6.13-rc4 kernel as the newest weekly test release leading up to Linux 6.13 stable by mid to late January...

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OpenShot 3.3 Open-Source Video Editor Brings New Default Theme, Better Wayland Support

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 December, 2024

OpenShot 3.3 is out today as the newest feature release for this popular open-source video editor. This Qt-based cross-platform non-linear video editor has a new default theme and many other enhancements in time for editing any of your year-end or holiday videos...

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Linux Kernel Patches To Use AMD INVLPGB Instruction Show Huge Speed-Up

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 December, 2024

Since AMD Zen 3 processors there has been the INVLPGB instruction for invalidating TLB entries for a range of pages with broadcast. As mentioned back during the AMD EPYC 7003 "Milan" launch, INVLPGB usage around this new instruction was limited... Over the past nearly four years the INVLPGB use has been limited in part because Intel CPUs do not support it but there is now a Linux kernel patch series for making use of INVLPGB for some nice performance benefits...

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Intel To Use Both Family 18 And Family 19 Identification For Upcoming CPUs

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 December, 2024

Intel processors have long identified in the Family 6 series going back to the 1990s but over the past number of months Intel engineers have been adapting the Linux kernel to prepare for a post Family 6 Intel CPU era for the model/family CPU identification handling. Patches posted in September introduced Diamond Rapids support as the first Intel Family 19 CPU while new patches for the Linux kernel are indicating Intel will be using both Family 18 and Family 19 identification for future processor models...

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LLVM 20 Merges An Initial Telemetry Framework

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 December, 2024

Merged this week to the LLVM Git codebase ahead of next year's LLVM 20 release is a simple telemetry framework...