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      AMD Sends Out Linux Patches For Next-Gen EPYC Features: GLBE, GLSBE & PLZA

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21 January 2026

    Sent out to the Linux kernel mailing list this afternoon were a set of 19 patches in preparing for some new CPU features presumably to be found with AMD's next-generation EPYC "Venice" processors...
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      AMD ROCm 7.2 Now Released With More Radeon Graphics Cards Supported, ROCm Optiq Introduced

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21 January 2026

    Back at CES earlier this month AMD talked up features of the ROCm 7.2 release. ROCm 7.2 though wasn't actually released then, at least not for Linux. That ROCm 7.2.0 release though was pushed out today as the latest improvement to this open-source AMD GPU compute stack and officially extending the support to more Radeon graphics cards...
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      Mesa 26.0-rc1 Released With RADV Improvements Leading The Way Along With Intel & NVK

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21 January 2026

    Eric Engestrom just released Mesa 26.0-rc1 with the code for this quarter's Mesa feature release now branched and under a feature freeze leading up to the stable release in February...
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      PyTorch 2.10 Released With More Improvements For AMD ROCm & Intel GPUs

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21 January 2026

    PyTorch 2.10 is out today as the latest feature update to this widely-used deep learning library. The new PyTorch release continues improving support for Intel GPUs as well as for the AMD ROCm compute stack along with still driving more enhancements for NVIDIA CUDA...
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      XDG-Desktop-Portal 1.21 Released With Reduced Motion Setting, Support For Linyaps Apps

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21 January 2026

    XDG-Desktop-Portal 1.21 is now available for testing with the latest features for this portal frontend service to Flatpak...
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      The CPU Performance Of The NVIDIA GB10 With The Dell Pro Max vs. AMD Ryzen AI Max+ "Strix Halo"

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21 January 2026

    With the Dell Pro Max GB10 testing at Phoronix we have been focused on the AI performance with its Blackwell GPU as the GB10 superchip was designed for meeting the needs of AI. Many Phoronix readers have also been curious about the GB10's CPU performance in more traditional Linux workloads. So for those curious about the GB10 CPU performance, here are some Linux benchmarks focused today on the CPU performance and going up against the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 "Strix Halo" within the Framework Desktop.
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      Linux 7.0 Apple Silicon Device Tree Updates Have All The Bits For USB Type-C Ports

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21 January 2026

    Ahead of the Linux 6.20~7.0 cycle kicking off next month, the Apple Silicon Device Tree updates have been sent out for queuing ahead of that next merge window. Notable this round are the Device Tree additions for rounding out the USB 2.0/3.x support with the USB-C ports...
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      Adjusting One Line Of Linux Code Yields 5x Wakeup Latency Reduction For Modern Xeon CPUs

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21 January 2026

    A new patch posted to the Linux kernel mailing list aims to address the high wake-up latency experienced on modern Intel Xeon server platforms. With Sapphire Rapids and newer, "excessive" wakeup latencies with the Linux menu governor and NOHZ_FULL configuration can negatively impair Xeon CPUs for latency-sensitive workloads but a 16 line patch aims to better improve the situation. That is, changing one line of actual code and the rest being code comments...
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      New Patches Aim To Make x86 Linux EFI Stub & Relocatable Kernel Support Unconditional

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21 January 2026

    Prominent Intel Linux engineer H. Peter Anvin has posted a new patch series working to clean-up the Linux x86/x86_64 kernel boot code. Besides cleaning up the code, the kernel configuration would drop options around EFI stub mode and relocatable kernels in making those features now always enabled...