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      AMD Posts Newest Linux Patches To Accelerate Page Migration For Better Performance

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 30 April 2026

    Posted to the Linux kernel mailing list this week was the newest revision of a patch series originally started in early 2025 by a NVIDIA engineer for accelerating page migration. Now being worked on by AMD engineers, this accelerated page migration via batch copies and hardware offloading continues to show promising results...
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      Servo Browser Engine Seeing Progress On FreeBSD Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 30 April 2026

    Following the recent Servo 0.1 release, the Servo project has published their latest monthly status report to highlight recent development efforts around this modern open-source browser engine...
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      ACPI CPPC v4 Support Being Worked On For Linux ACPI CPPC Driver

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 30 April 2026

    Last year with the ACPI 6.6 specification release came revised Collaborative Processor Performance Control (CPPC) support for enhancing the capabilities around this standard for OS management of the performance of CPU cores using an abstract performance scale. That CPPC v4 support is now being worked on for the acpi_cppc Linux driver by NVIDIA engineers...
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      The Intel Lunar Lake CPU Performance Gains On Linux Over The Past Year

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 29 April 2026

    Recently I ran benchmarks looking at the Xe2 graphics performance gains on Intel Lunar Lake over the past year with what's shipped by Ubuntu and comparing against our original tests of the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 13 Aura Edition. With those Lunar Lake iGPU benchmarks out of the way, here is a look at how the Lunar Lake CPU performance has evolved on Linux since April 2025.
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      Linux's sched_ext Sees A Bunch Of Bug Fixes Following Increased AI Code Review

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 29 April 2026

    Just days after the Linux 7.1-rc1 kernel release, the Linux kernel's extensible scheduler class "sched_ext" is seeing a lot of bug fixes. Many of these bug fixes aren't just from the Linux 7.1 merge window but a number date back many kernel cycles. This uptick in bug fixes for sched_ext is coming due to increased AI code review...
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      OpenCL Introducing Cooperative Matrix Extensions For Machine Learning

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 29 April 2026

    Back in 2023 the Vulkan API introduced its initial Cooperative Matrix extension and necessary SPIR-V integration for helping with machine learning / AI inferencing use. Since then the cooperative matrix support has continued to be built upon for helping Vulkan in AI/ML areas. Now the OpenCL API is also introducing similar cooperative matrix extensions...
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      Rust-Written Zed 1.0 Code Editor Released

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 29 April 2026

    Zed, the cross platform, open-source text/code editor written by the developers behind the Atom editor, has finally reached version 1.0...
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      Hygon C86-4G CPU Support Added To The GCC 17 Compiler

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 29 April 2026

    Merged today to the GCC Git compiler codebase, which will be for GCC 17 rather than the imminent GCC 16.1 stable release, is adding support for the Chinese-manufactured Hygon C86-4G-M4 / C86-4G-M6 / C86-4G-M7 series x86_64 processors...
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      Libcamera 0.7.1 Released With Improved Software ISP

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 29 April 2026

    Libcamera 0.7.1 released on Tuesday as the newest feature release for this open-source library for camera image signal processors (ISPs) that has grown of importance for the likes of Raspberry Pi and Chrome OS and modern desktop Linux distributions with modern laptop hardware like recent Intel Core (Ultra) laptops...