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RISC-V Wires Up More Kernel Features With Linux 6.12
The RISC-V architecture updates have been submitted for the Linux 6.12 kernel cycle. More RISC-V CPU ISA extensions are being supported along with enabling some additional kernel features for this CPU architecture...
2024-09-26 07:05
VirtIO Vsock Performance To Improve With Linux 6.12
The VirtIO Vsock guest/host communication interface using virtual sockets will see better performance with the in-development Linux 6.12 kernel...
2024-09-26 06:39
DXVK 2.4.1 Released With Many Improvements, More Robust Direct3D 8
It's been nearly three months since the last DXVK release for this Direct3D 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 implementation built atop Vulkan for Steam Play (Proton) / Wine. That changed today with Philip Rebohle having just released DXVK 2.4.1...
2024-09-26 06:26
Vulkan 1.3.296 Released With VK_EXT_device_generated_commands
Vulkan 1.3.296 is out as the first spec update in nearly one month. Given the time that has passed there are more bug fixes than usual but there is also a prominent new extension: VK_EXT_device_generated_commands...
2024-09-26 06:17
Valve Engineer Mike Blumenkrantz Hoping To Accelerate Wayland Protocol Development
Valve open-source graphics software engineer Mike Blumenkrantz is well known in the Linux community for his work on the Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver code, various Mesa driver optimizations, and creative writing on his blog. He's also taken up a new tas...
2024-09-25 16:46
ChipStar 1.2 Released For Compiling & Running HIP/CUDA On SPIR-V/OpenCL Hardware
ChipStar 1.2 has been released as the open-source software enabling HIP/CUDA programs to be compiled and run atop SPIR-V whether it be OpenCL or Vulkan drivers...
2024-09-25 14:51
Intel Working To Improve Virtualization Handling For P/E-Core Hybrid CPUs
While Intel has been making steady progress around enhancing the Linux kernel handling for CPUs with a mix of P and E cores for proper task placement and power optimizations, one area that still is less than desirable for these hybrid Intel Core proces...
2024-09-25 12:03
Rust In Linux 6.12 Prepares For Rust Binder, Supports Sanitizers & CPU Mitigations
Miguel Ojeda has submitted all of the Rust toolchain and infrastructure changes for the in-development Linux 6.12 kernel...
2024-09-25 10:30
Cloudflare Goes With AMD EPYC Genoa-X For Their Next-Gen Servers
Cloudflare's always-interesting technical blog laid out their details today concerning their next-gen "12th Generation" in-house servers that will be powering their vast web infrastructure. With these next-gen Cloudflare servers they are going with AMD...
2024-09-25 09:45
Mesa 24.3 Finishes The Years Long Effort To Phase Out The Old GLSL IR Linker
Timothy Arceri with the Valve Linux graphics team has merged the code for Mesa GLSL to convert to NIR at compile-time and in turn dropping the old GLSL IR linker with this being a multi-year effort now wrapped up for Mesa 24.3...
2024-09-25 08:59
Linux 6.12 NFS Adds LOCALIO Protocol For "Extreme" Performance Boost
The Network File System (NFS) changes have been merged for the ongoing Linux 6.12 development cycle. Notable this time with NFS is adding LOCALIO protocol extension support that can lead to fairly "extreme" performance improvements in scenarios where t...
2024-09-25 06:36
Fwupd 1.9.25 Supports Firmware Updates For A Few More Devices Under Linux
Red Hat engineer Richard Hughes this morning released Fwupd 1.9.25 as the newest feature release to this open-source solution paired with the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) for making firmware updates on Linux a breeze for an increasing number of...
2024-09-25 06:17
Mold Linker Decides To Drop DEC Alpha Support: Likely Broken & No Actual Users
The high performance open-source Mold linker has released version 2.34 with various improvements while also deciding to throw in the towel on DEC Alpha processor support...
2024-09-25 06:11
Frog-FIFO-V1 Aims To Address Mesa's "Fundamentally Broken" Wayland Code
Joshua Ashton of Valve's Linux graphics team has opened a Mesa merge request to support a proposed "frog-fifo-v1" protocol for Wayland to address the matter of "FIFO is fundamentally broken under Mesa's Wayland WSI right now."..
2024-09-25 01:00
Intel Lunar Lake Linux Benchmarks Are Still Forthcoming
While there were many Windows reviews/benchmarks out Tuesday for Intel Core Ultra 200 Series "Lunar Lake" laptops on various websites, Linux tests are still awaiting due to having resorted to pre-ordering a Lunar Lake laptop myself for delivering Linux...
2024-09-25 00:00
NVIDIA Mellanox Linux Driver Spearheads Multi-Path PCI As "A Sign Of Things To Come"
While open-source enthusiasts like to criticize NVIDIA for not maintaining upstream, in-tree kernel graphics driver support (though things have been changing there), for other areas of their vast hardware portfolio they are much better upstream Linux k...
2024-09-24 16:30
NVIDIA Publishes Open-Source Linux Driver Code For GPU Virtualization "vGPU" Support
NVIDIA engineers have sent out an exciting set of Linux kernel patches for enabling NVIDIA vGPU software support for virtual GPU support among multiple virtual machines (VMs). In aiming for upstream-focused Linux support, this NVIDIA vGPU support is bu...
2024-09-24 13:32
Intel Xeon 6980P "Granite Rapids" Linux Benchmarks
With the Intel Xeon 6900P "Granite Rapids" launch today the review embargo has now expired. I began with my Intel Granite Rapids Linux benchmarking a few days ago and have initial benchmarks to share for the flagship Xeon 6980P processors paired with M...
2024-09-24 11:00
Intel Launches Xeon 6900P Series "Granite Rapids" Processors
Building off the launch earlier this year of the first Xeon 6 processors with the Xeon 6700E "Sierra Forest" processors, today Intel is lifting the wraps on the much anticipated Xeon 6900P "Granite Rapids" processors. Where as Sierra Forest is optimize...
2024-09-24 11:00
Intel Gaudi 3 Linux Driver Support Expected Next Month
Intel used their Enterprise Tech Tour last week in Oregon to not only provide insight into the new Xeon 6900 "Granite Rapids" server processors (and Xeon 6980P benchmarks) but also to shed more light on their Gaudi 3 AI inference accelerator. The quest...
2024-09-24 11:00