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Linux 6.12-rc4 Adding Controller Support For The MSI Claw A1M & 8BitDo Ultimate 2C

Sent out overnight were a few input subsystem patches ahead of the Linux 6.12-rc4 kernel release tomorrow. Notable from this pull is adding input support for the MSI Claw A1M gaming handheld as well as the 8BitDo Ultimate 2C Wireless gaming controller...

2024-10-19 06:29

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KDE Developers Wrapping Up Fallout From Plasma 6.2, Spinning More Plasma 6.3 Features

KDE developers are wrapping up addressing initial fallout/regressions from the recent Plasma 6.2 desktop release as well as pushing ahead with more feature work for Plasma 6.3...

2024-10-19 06:20

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Intel Working On Coreboot Support For Xeon 6 Platforms

Intel announced earlier this week ahead of the OCP Global Summit that they have partnered with the 9elements consulting firm for getting Coreboot up and running on Intel Xeon 6 "Granite Rapids" platforms...

2024-10-18 16:42

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Wine 9.20 Released With WineDbg Now Using Capstone Disassembler

Wine 9.20 is out today as the newest bi-weekly development version of this open-source software to enable running Windows games and applications under Linux and other platforms...

2024-10-18 16:37

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Ubuntu Considers Replacing initramfs-tools WIth Dracut

As a possible change for Ubuntu 25.04, Canonical is evaluating the use of Dracut to replace initramfs-tools for initrd generation on Ubuntu Linux...

2024-10-18 12:55

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Linux 6.13 Poised To Land Prep Patches Working Toward Proxy Execution

Years in the making has been the idea of Proxy Execution for the Linux kernel as a means of implementing priority inheritance by leveraging information from a task's scheduler context and its execution context. While the Proxy Execution patches themsel...

2024-10-18 11:26

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Linux Fixes Indirect Branch Predictor Barrier "IBPB" Handling For Older AMD CPUs

Merged today to Linux 6.12 Git were bug fixes to AMD's Indirect Branch Predictor Barrier (IBPB) handling that can be optionally used as part of the Retbleed and Speculative Return Stack Overflow (SRSO) mitigations on older AMD processors...

2024-10-18 10:42

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Laptop Vendor Malibal Suggests Not Supporting Coreboot

In a rather surprising post this morning, laptop vendor Malibal that offers both Linux and Windows systems is suggesting to not support the Coreboot project for open-source system firmware...

2024-10-18 09:00

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AMD ROCm Looks Like It Will Finally Be Supporting OpenCL 3.0 Soon

The OpenCL 3.0 compute specification has been out in finalized form since September 2020. Since then NVIDIA's official Windows/Linux drivers have been exposing OpenCL 3.0 going back to 2021, the Intel Compute Runtime stack has also been exposing OpenCL...

2024-10-18 06:38

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Ubuntu Snaps Up Intel's NPU User-Space Software So It's Easier To Accelerate AI

Ubuntu Linux maker Canonical has announced the availability of an Intel NPU driver Snap package within their Snap Store to make it easier to leverage the Intel neural processing unit (NPU) on Core Ultra processors within Ubuntu Linux...

2024-10-18 06:27

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Valve Contributes OpenVR Video Driver To SDL

Merged to upstream SDL today is an OpenVR video driver that was developed at Valve Software...

2024-10-18 06:14

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Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund Has Invested Over $24.9M In Open-Source In Two Years

Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund (STF) is today celebrating its second anniversary for "empowering public digital infrastructure." In the past two years it has invested more than €23 million (about $24.94M USD) into sixty open technologies...

2024-10-18 06:07

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Microsoft Open-Sources Rust-Written OpenHCL For Running Confidential Intel/AMD VMs

Microsoft announced today the new and now open-source OpenHCL paravisor for the virtualization stack for enabling Intel TDX and AMD SEV-SNP confidential computing virtual machines (VMs) with this Rust-written software stack. This effort by Microsoft ha...

2024-10-17 20:28

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Intel NPU Driver Being Updated To Handle Larger AI Workloads

Following the recent patch work for enabling the Intel 5th Gen NPU premiering with Panther Lake, a new patch series posted today brings a number of improvements for this Intel neural processing unit driver -- including the ability to handle larger work...

2024-10-17 16:54

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Exploring The Zen 5 SMT Performance With The AMD EPYC 9755 "Turin" CPU

Continuing on with the testing around the AMD EPYC 9005 series "Turin" processors, today is a look at the Simultaneous Multi-Threading (SMT) performance impact for Turin while using the AMD EPYC 9755 as the highest-end "Turin Classic" processor with 12...

2024-10-17 13:38

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PyTorch 2.5 Released With Improved Intel GPU Support

PyTorch 2.5 is out today as the latest major update to this widely-used machine learning library...

2024-10-17 12:58

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Red Hat Engineer Nikita Popov Now The Lead Maintainer For LLVM

Following a proposal that began last month, Red Hat engineer Nikita Popov was nominated to become the new lead maintainer for LLVM. Following unaminous approval, as of last week in LLVM Git he's been appointed the official lead maintainer for this crit...

2024-10-17 10:27

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Linux 6.13 To Introduce Intel 5th Gen NPU Support For Panther Lake

Earlier this month I wrote about Intel's Linux software engineers posting patches adding 5th Gen NPU support to the IVPU accelerator driver for that updated neural processing unit to be found with next-gen Panther Lake processors. Those 5th Gen NPU dri...

2024-10-17 08:50

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The Maturing State Of Rusticl For Rust-Based OpenCL Within Mesa

Karol Herbst of Red Hat presented in Montreal last week at the X.Org Developers' Conference (XDC 2024) on the current state of Rusticl as the Rust-written OpenCL implementation for Gallium3D drivers within Mesa...

2024-10-17 06:58

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AMD Working On GPU Compute Virtualization Support With ROCm/HIP For VMs

Last week at XDC 2024 in Montreal was a status update on AMD's GPU compute virtualization support around their open-source Linux GPU driver and ROCm compute stack...

2024-10-17 06:46

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