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Linus Torvalds Adapts Linux User Address Masking To Use CMOV

In addition to merging a number of the pull requests yesterday for the start of the Linux 6.14 cycle, Linux creator Linus Torvalds did merge some of his own new code as well. While his time these days working on new kernel code itself is more limited w...

2025-01-21 06:34

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Linux 6.14 Resource Control To Allow Total Memory Bandwidth Monitoring

The x86/cache updates for the in-development Linux 6.14 kernel are extending the Resource Control "resctrl" code for Intel Resource Director Technology / AMD Platform Quality of Service to have the capability of total memory bandwidth monitoring...

2025-01-21 06:24

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Bcachefs Changes Merged Without Issue For The Linux 6.14 Kernel

As a follow-up to yesterday's article around the on-disk format changes and other feature work on Bcachefs for Linux 6.14, the changes ended up being merged without issue for this next kernel version. That came after the Bcachefs changes were rejected ...

2025-01-21 03:00

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New AMD CPU Features Enabled For The Start Of The Linux 6.14 Kernel Cycle

On this first day of the Linux 6.14 merge window to kick off the new kernel development cycle there are a few pull requests around new AMD CPU features worth noting...

2025-01-20 20:44

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GNU Linux-libre 6.13-gnu Deals With More Questionable Code In The Kernel

Building off yesterday's release of the Linux 6.13 kernel, GNU Linux-libre 6.13 is out today as this downstream kernel from FSF LA that strips out code pertaining to the ability to load non-free drivers/microcode and other elements not deemed within th...

2025-01-20 19:29

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AMD Seeking Feedback Around What Radeon GPUs You Would Like Supported By ROCm

An engineer from AMD by way of their Nod.ai acquisition is seeking feedback from the community around what other Radeon graphics cards you would like to see supported by the ROCm support on Linux. This community wishlist extends to ROCm Windows support...

2025-01-20 15:42

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Wine 10.0 Expected This Week For Improving Windows Software On Linux

After six release candidates going back to early December, it looks like Wine 10.0 stable will be ready to ship this week. This is largely as expected with the annual Wine stable releases tending to come around mid-to-late January. Here's a look at wha...

2025-01-20 15:03

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Bcachefs Sends In "The Last Big On Disk Format Upgrade" For Linux 6.14

Following the Bcachefs pull requests being rejected during the Linux 6.13 cycle by the kernel's Code of Conduct committee, the Linux 6.14 kernel cycle is kicking off with a big pull request so that the upstream kernel can get back into sync with the la...

2025-01-20 13:31

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RADV Vulkan Driver Support Being Worked On For The GPU Found In The Sony PS5 & BC-250

Open-source developers are working on allowing the Mesa RADV Vulkan driver to support the "Cyan Skillfish" graphics processor IP found within the Sony PlayStation 5 APU as well as the AMD BC-250 mining cards...

2025-01-20 11:49

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Arrives For Linux Testing

Earlier this month at CES was the announcement of the GeForce RTX 50 "Blackwell" series. Among the first of these consumer Blackwell GPUs is the GeForce RTX 5090 flagship graphics card that is set to retail for $1999 USD. The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Fo...

2025-01-20 09:00

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Linux 6.14 To Allow VirtualBox Guest Support On ARM64 VMs

The Linux 6.14 kernel will enable the VirtualBox guest drivers to be built for ARM64 Linux virtual machines (VMs)...

2025-01-20 08:48

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More Rust Code Is Coming For Linux 6.14 Along With Hitting Another "Major Milestone"

For the Linux 6.13 cycle the Rust code was hitting a "tipping point" with more Rust kernel drivers expected soon. For Linux 6.14 there is indeed a lot more Rust code being primed for this next kernel version...

2025-01-20 07:04

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Intel FFmpeg Cartwheel 2024Q4 Adds Battlemage GPU Support

Intel software engineers overnight published their new quarterly release of the Intel FFmpeg Cartwheel, the collection of the company's patches against this open-source multimedia library for enhancing the Intel GPU acceleration support while the patch...

2025-01-20 06:45

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Many Scheduler Improvements Ready To Better Enhance The Linux 6.14 Kernel

Ingo Molnar sent out the big batch of scheduler enhancements bright and early today for helping kick off the start of the Linux 6.14 merge window...

2025-01-20 06:37

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Open-Source Qualcomm Adreno Vulkan Driver Lands Ray Query Support

The "TURNIP" open-source Vulkan API driver within Mesa for supporting Qualcomm Adreno graphics is now able to expose accelerated ray query support for ray-tracing with newer Adreno GPUs...

2025-01-20 06:26

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Linux 6.14 Adding "STATX_DIO_READ_ALIGN" To Address A Performance Pitfall

Among the VFS pull requests sent out this weekend in advance of the Linux 6.14 merge window formally opening were the VFS direct I/O (DIO) updates that introduce a new STATX_DIO_READ_ALIGN field for addressing a possible performance pitfall...

2025-01-20 06:19

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Linux 6.13 Released With AutoFDO + Propeller, AMD Changes & Broader Apple Support

As anticipated the Linux 6.13 kernel was promoted to stable today with an on-time release and in turn also marking the start of the Linux 6.14 merge window. Linux 6.13 stable has plenty of fine features for this first major kernel release of 2025...

2025-01-19 19:00

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Linux To Allow Adjusting pid_max Per PID Namespace - Helping Old Software

The pid_max tunable for the maximum number of process IDs allowed simultaneously was increased by default back in 2019 with systemd. But that increase breaks a long held assumption by some user-space software that pid_max or the process ID would not be...

2025-01-19 06:53

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A Last Minute Fix For EEVDF Scheduling Lag With Linux 6.13

Ahead of the Linux 6.13 stable kernel expected to be released later today, there is a last minute fix for the EEVDF CPU scheduler...

2025-01-19 06:31

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Rust Coreutils 0.0.29 Brings Improved Compatibility, New Performance Optimizations

Following the release a few days ago of GNU Coreutils 9.6, the Rust Coreutils "uutils" project as a re-implementation of these core utilities within the Rust programming language is out with a fresh update...

2025-01-19 06:15

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