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BeOS-Inspired Haiku Enabling More Intel Hardware & Driving Kernel Optimizations
The Haiku open-source operating system project inspired by BeOS is out with their newest monthly development summary to highlight advancements made to this unique OS...
2024-10-12 09:02
Intel Panther Lake H EDAC Support Posted For Linux
With Intel Core Ultra Lunar Lake systems now shipping and the Linux support largely settled, Intel open-source software engineers have begun ramping up their support for Panther Lake due out in a year...
2024-10-12 06:53
AMD Job Posting Confirms More Details Around Their AI GPU Compute Stack Plans
A Friday evening job posting has confirmed and reinforced details around their future AI GPU compute stack, presumably what's been referred to as the Unified AI Software Stack...
2024-10-12 06:44
KDE Developers Fixing Initial Bugs From Plasma 6.2
Following this week's release of KDE Plasma 6.2, the KDE developers are busy addressing some of the initial fallout from this desktop update as well as more feature work aimed at Plasma 6.3...
2024-10-12 06:13
AMD To Integrate "Project Caliptra" Into Products Beginning In 2026
As another interesting AMD announcement this week following their Advancing AI event yesterday where they launched the EPYC 9005 series and other new hardware, they've continued with a few more soft announcements in the lead-up to the OCP Global Summit...
2024-10-11 20:50
Arm Exploring IO_uring For Graphics Drivers For Better Performance & Synchronization
The IO_uring asynchronous I/O API for Linux is quite novel and has proven performance benefits. With time IO_uring has been adapted to other areas of the kernel like networking and now with a proposal raised by an Arm graphics driver engineer, it could...
2024-10-11 13:45
AVX-512 Performance With 256-bit vs. 512-bit Data Path For AMD EPYC 9005 CPUs
Now past the launch day for the AMD EPYC 9005 series server processors and having delivered initial AMD EPYC Zen 5 benchmarks for the EPYC 9575F / EPYC 9755 / EPYC 9965 SKUs, it's onto one of my favorite areas of testing and that is the more focused be...
2024-10-11 10:40
Intel Xe2 Ultra Joiner, GPU Temperature Reporting & Another Arrow Lake ID For Linux 6.13
The drm-xe-next pull request earlier this week began preparing open-source driver support for Intel Xe3 graphics to premiere with Panther Lake processors. That code is beginning to queue for the upcoming Linux 6.13 cycle. Today a drm-intel-next pull re...
2024-10-11 09:28
DRM_Log Continues To Be Worked On As New Boot Logger For Kernel Messages
DRM_Log is an effort that continues to be worked on by Jocelyn Falempe at Red Hat as a new boot logger for printing the kernel messages on the screen...
2024-10-11 08:30
AMD AOCC 5.0 Compiler Released With Zen 5 Support, New Optimizations
With 5th Gen AMD EPYC "Turin" processors now launched, AMD provided a same-day release of their updated AMD Optimizing C/C++ Compiler "AOCC". This is AMD's downstream version of LLVM/Clang/Flang where they provide optimized AMD processor support with c...
2024-10-11 06:57
AMD Hardware Feedback Interface "HFI" Driver Updated For Heterogeneous CPUs
Back in August I wrote about AMD beginning work on a new Linux driver to help with heterogeneous core CPUs. On Thursday a second iteration of the AMD HFI Linux driver patches were posted with this driver continuing to work its way toward the mainline k...
2024-10-11 06:40
Nouveau With NVK Vulkan Driver Running More Games, Increasing Feature Set
Collabora's Faith Ekstrand provided a status update yesterday at XDC 2024 Montreal around the state of the Nouveau kernel driver with the Mesa NVK Vulkan driver as a means of open-source Vulkan API support on NVIDIA GPUs...
2024-10-11 06:30
AMD Announces Commitment To "Open Security Technologies"
After the AMD Advancing AI Event yesterday where they launched AMD 5th Gen EPYC processors, Instinct product updates, and new high-end networking gear, they also put out a blog post to affirm their "commitment to open security technologies in the data ...
2024-10-11 06:15
NVIDIA Shares Wayland Driver Roadmap, Encourages Vulkan Wayland Compositors
At the X.Org Developer's Conference (XDC 2024) happening this week in Montreal, NVIDIA shared a road-map around their Wayland plans as well as encouraging Wayland compositors to target the Vulkan API...
2024-10-10 20:34
AMD EPYC 9755 / 9575F / 9965 Benchmarks Show Dominating Performance
Last month Intel introduced their Xeon 6 "Granite Rapids" processors with up to 128 P cores, MRDIMM support, and other improvements as a big step-up in performance and power efficiency for their server processors. The Xeon 6900P series showed they coul...
2024-10-10 14:00
AMD EPYC 9965 "Turin Dense" Delivers Better Performance/Power Efficiency vs. AmpereOne 192-Core ARM CPU
Complementing the AMD EPYC 9575F / 9755 / 9965 performance benchmarks article looking at those Turin processors up against prior AMD EPYC CPUs and the Intel Xeon competition, this article is looking squarely at the 192-core EPYC 9965 "Turin Dense" proc...
2024-10-10 14:00
AMD Launches EPYC 9005 "Turin" Server Processors
AMD is using their Advancing AI event today to announce 5th Gen EPYC "Turin" processors. With up to 192 cores / 384 threads per socket, 17% IPC uplift, AVX-512 with a full 512-bit data path, and the Zen 5 architectural improvements, these new EPYC 9005...
2024-10-10 14:00
AMD Announces Pensando Salina 400 DPU & Pollara 400 Ultra Ethernet NIC
In addition to announcing the EPYC 9005 "Turin" processors and the latest on the AMD Instinct front, Lisa Su at the AMD Advancing AI event in San Francisco also announced the AMD Pensando Salina 400 DPU and AMD Pensando Pollara 400 Ultra Ethernet AI NI...
2024-10-10 14:00
Intel Announces Core Ultra 200S Arrow Lake CPUs
As part of a busy day in the CPU world, Intel has lifted the embargo on the Core Ultra 200S "Arrow Lake" desktop processors. This isn't the review embargo but just an overview on this new generation succeeding 14th Gen "Raptor Lake Refresh" on the desk...
2024-10-10 11:00
Apple Silicon On Linux Now More Capable For Gaming With Latest Mesa + Steam On FEX
Alyssa Rosenzweig provided an update today at the XDC 2024 conference in Montreal on the open-source "Honeykrisp" Vulkan driver for Apple Silicon M1/M2 SoCs within Mesa and related work as part of the Asahi Linux project to provide for a nice Linux gam...
2024-10-10 10:35