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      AMD Ready With CPPC Performance Priority & Dynamic/Raw EPP In Linux 7.1

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 April 2026

    All of the power management subsystem feature updates have been merged for the Linux 7.1 kernel...
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      BeOS-Inspired Haiku OS Gets ARM64 Port Booting

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 April 2026

    Over the course of March there was much progress made on the ARM64 port of Haiku OS, the open-source operating system serving as the spiritual successor to BeOS...
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      Linux 7.1 Lands ARM64 NEON-Accelerated CRC64-NVMe For ~6x Improvement

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 April 2026

    Merged yesterday were all the CRC code updates for the Linux 7.1 kernel. Most notable with that pull is an ARM64-optimized CRC64-NVMe implementation that can deliver multiple times faster performance...
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      jemalloc 5.3.1 Released With Many Improvements After Nearly Four Year Hiatus

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 April 2026

    Jemalloc 5.3.1 was released today with next month marking four years since the prior release, jemalloc 5.3.0. While the version bump may not seem like much, jemalloc 5.3.1 comes with many performance improvements, new features, and other enhancements...
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      GreenBoost Memory Orchestrator For NVIDIA GPUs Introduces GreenBoost-Proton For Gaming

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13 April 2026

    Last month we showcased GreenBoost as an open-source means of augmenting NVIDIA GPU vRAM with system RAM and NVMe storage. This memory tiering solution for NVIDIA GPUs was developed by an open-source developer with a focus on CUDA and allowing larger LLMs to be handled on graphics cards with smaller vRAM capacities. There was a setback to the project due to NVIDIA legal but now the project is going in new form and also has introduced GreenBoost-Proton for helping Linux gaming on NVIDIA hardware...
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      Coreboot Comes To AMD Ryzen Powered Star Labs StarBook MK VI After 3+ Year Wait

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13 April 2026

    For those that had purchased a StarBook MK VI laptop 3+ years ago over the advertised support for Coreboot, Star Labs has now delivered with a Coreboot build finally available and working for this AMD Ryzen 5000 series powered laptop...
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      user.* xattrs On Sockets Merged For Linux 7.1 As Sought By GNOME & systemd Developers

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13 April 2026

    On this first day of the Linux 7.1 merge window, among the early pull requests merged were beginning to land the various VFS pull requests submitted by Christian Brauner. Among that code merged is enabling support for user.* extended attributes on sockets...
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      The Good & The Bad When Using LLMs To Write Spack Packages

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13 April 2026

    The Spack package manager is quite popular in the HPC / supercomputer space for scientific software. Even with the more selective niche than a typical general purpose OS package manager, large language models (LLMs) have already proven capable of being useful in generating new Spack packages. But there have also been some headaches involved too for Spack developers...
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      NVIDIA Hiring More LLVM Engineers To Work On CUDA Tile

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13 April 2026

    Last year NVIDIA announced the new CUDA Tile programming model as one of the biggest updates ever to the CUDA platform. CUDA Tile brings a virtual ISA for tile-based parallel programming and they subsequently open-sourced the CUDA Tile IR as an intermediate representation built atop LLVM's MLIR. Now they are looking to hire additional LLVM compiler engineers to help foster their CUDA Tile initiatives...