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NVIDIA's New Linux Patches For GPU Direct RDMA For Device-Private Pages

NVIDIA engineer Yonatan Maman posted a set of "request for comments" patches this Sunday to implement GPU Direct RDMA "P2P DMA" for device private pages. This is the latest in the effort by multiple vendors to allow more efficient data sharing between ...

2024-12-01 06:26

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Linux Fixes Issue Where Applying AMD Zen1/Zen2 Microcode Updates Could Slow Boot Times

Submitted today for the Linux kernel ahead of the Linux 6.13-rc1 release as part of the "x86/urgent" material is a fix for aging Zen 1 and Zen 2 processors where for the past year and a half they could potentially find very slow boot times...

2024-12-01 06:13

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Clang AutoFDO + Propeller Optimization Support Merged For Linux 6.13

Last night when writing about the Clang AutoFDO and Propeller optimization patches sent in for Linux 6.13 I had wondered whether Linus Torvalds would go through with the pull request given some of his past commentary around aggressive compiler optimiza...

2024-11-30 21:00

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Wayland Color Management Protocol Might Finally Be Close To Merging

In what could be a wonderful holiday for the Linux desktop, it looks like the Wayland color management protocol might finally be close to merging after four years in discussion...

2024-11-30 10:10

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Resources System Monitoring App For GNOME Now Displays NPU Usage

As an alternative to the GNOME System Monitor application for system monitoring, Resources has been in development as a currently unofficial, GNOME-aligned resource/hardware monitoring application written in the Rust programming language. Resources v1....

2024-11-30 07:00

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Linux 6.13 Hits A "Tipping Point" With More Rust Drivers Expected Soon

In addition to the USB updates and big staging flush merged yesterday for the Linux 6.13 kernel merge window, the "char/misc" pull was also honored for that catch-all of various kernel changes. With the char/misc pull there are some notable additions f...

2024-11-30 06:00

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Rust Hypervisor Firmware v0.5 Supports For More CPUs & Improves EFI Support

The Rust Hypervisor Firmware is a project out of the Cloud Hypervisor umbrella for developing open-source, Rust-based firmware that can be launched from any environment able to load ELF binaries and run them via the PVH booting standard. Rust Hyperviso...

2024-11-30 05:40

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KDE Ends November With More KWin Fixes & Other Polishing Ahead Of Plasma 6.3

KDE developers have wrapped up a busy November with many fixes and other refinements landing this last week of the month...

2024-11-30 05:22

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Clang AutoFDO & Propeller Optimization Support Sent In For Linux 6.13: 5~10% More Performance

Making for an even more exciting Black Friday is the Kbuild pull request submitted today for the near-over Linux 6.13 merge window... And it includes Clang Auto Feedback Directed Optimization (AutoFDO) support for kernel builds as well as Clang's Prope...

2024-11-29 21:09

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LibreOffice 25.2 Alpha 1 Open-Source Office Suite Released

For those with some extra time over the US holiday weekend, LibreOffice 25.2 Alpha 1 has been published as the newest feature version of this open-source, cross-platform office suite that is a great alternative to the likes of Microsoft Office...

2024-11-29 12:33

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AMD BIOS Tuning Guide Impact For Boosting AI/ML Performance On EPYC 9005 Series

Following the release last month of the EPYC 9005 series processors, AMD published a BIOS and Workload Tuning Guide of straight-forward settings recommendations for those running new EPYC Turin servers to optimize the performance of different workloads...

2024-11-29 10:36

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Improved USB4 Debugging Support With Linux 6.13

Along with the staging changes, Greg Kroah-Hartman this morning also sent out the USB/Thunderbolt changes for the nearly-over Linux 6.13 merge window...

2024-11-29 09:36

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Linux 6.13 Staging Clears Out 107k Lines Of Code From Old & Unmaintained Drivers

Greg Kroah-Hartman is out today with all of the pull requests for Linux 6.13 of the areas of the kernel he oversees. Most notable with the updates on the staging side are clearing out several drivers seeing no real code activity and no apparent users o...

2024-11-29 06:43

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FFmpeg Git Continues Landing A Number Of Vulkan Video Enhancements

A number of Vulkan Video enhancements landed this week in FFmpeg Git thanks to open-source developer Lynne that has been advancing the Vulkan Video encode/decode capabilities in this widely-used multimedia library...

2024-11-29 06:34

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Phoronix Black Friday Reminders

Just a quick reminder this "Black Friday" if you would like to help show your support...

2024-11-29 06:07

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UBports' Ubuntu Touch OTA-7 Atop Ubuntu 20.04 Released

The UBports community today released Ubuntu Touch OTA-7 as the latest version of the smartphone/tablet Linux platform currently running off an Ubuntu 20.04 base...

2024-11-29 05:54

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Updated Ubuntu 24.10 Install Image Released For Snapdragon X1 Elite Laptops

In mid-October was the release of a developer preview for Ubuntu 24.10 on Qualcomm Snapdragon X1 powered laptops. Yesterday an updated Ubuntu 24.10 release was made available catering to these popular, current-generation ARM-powered laptops that typica...

2024-11-28 14:45

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NFS Server Scalability Improvement & Other NFS Enhancements For Linux 6.13

There are a few Network File System (NFS) enhancements worth pointing out with the in-development Linux 6.13 kernel...

2024-11-28 13:00

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Linux Kernel Performance Bottlenecks Spotted By Mold Developer

Open-source developer Rui Ueyama who is the lead developer of the Mold high performance linker and previously on the LLVM lld linker has written a detailed mailing list post that highlights some observed performance bottlenecks within the Linux kernel...

2024-11-28 09:32

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Intel Graphics Compiler Removes Support For Ice Lake & Older

The Intel Graphics Compiler (IGC) that is used by the Intel Compute Runtime for Level Zero and OpenCL GPU compute support as well as being depended upon by the Windows 3D driver stack has now removed platform support up to and including Ice Lake...

2024-11-28 07:18

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