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      AMD ROCm vs. Vulkan Performance For Lemonade Local AI Server With Llama.cpp

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13:50

    A Phoronix Premium reader recently inquired about seeing some new benchmarks of AI performance between Vulkan and AMD ROCm back-ends to see how the situation plays out today. Here are some fresh benchmarks on two separate systems with AMD Radeon graphics and using the Lemonade local AI server while exploring the difference between the ROCm and Vulkan Llama.cpp back-ends.
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      Mesa Developers Looking At A Formal Governance Model

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13:04

    The Mesa 3D driver stack has functioned well over the years without a formal governance model and just relying on an informal consensus approach for big changes. But on some occasions this informal handling has been less than ideal so upstream Mesa developers are now looking at establishing a formal governance model...
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      Linux's ZRAM Reworked For Greater Memory Savings, Better Performance

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12:44

    With today's very high memory prices, the Linux ZRAM code for compressed block devices in RAM has seen a rework to provide greater memory savings...
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      Linux 7.4 To Mainline Support For The Google Tensor G5, Pixel 10 Devices

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11:33

    Going back to last year have been patches for booting the mainline Linux kernel on Pixel 10 devices while finally those Google Pixel 10 Device Trees and Tensor G5 SoC support is set to be mainlined for Linux 7.4...
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      Mold 3.0 High Speed Linker Released Following Rust Rewrite

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:29

    The Mold high speed linker alternative to the likes of GNU Gold/LD and LLVM LLD recently has been going through a rewrite from C++ to Rust as well as having high ambitions of eventually becoming the default linker on Linux systems. Today marks the release of Mold 3.0 for this Rust-based high performance linker...
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      Linux 7.4 Continues Preparing For Intel's Rugged Panther Lake

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:23

    Back in May we spotted a Linux patch adding "Panther Lake R" as a rugged version of Panther Lake intended for "use in harsh environments". Since Linux 7.2 we have seen some bits of Panther Lake R driver support added while for the upcoming Linux 7.4 cycle there is additional enablement happening for this Panther Lake derivative...
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      Qualcomm Patching Linux For Hardware Thermal Binning To Benefit Snapdragon X Laptops

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:04

    A new patch series sent out from Qualcomm that aims to help at least the Snapdragon X series laptops is hardware-binned trip point support. Some Qualcomm SoCs are available in different multiple thermal/package bins with different junction temperature limits but otherwise being the same silicon. The new Linux patches are working to properly convey that information around the thermal limits for a given piece of silicon...
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      Linux 7.4 AMD P-State Driver Will Be Ready For Ryzen Zen 6 CPUs

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9:45

    With the upcoming Linux 7.4 kernel the necessary changes to the AMD P-State driver are set to land for properly supporting the upcoming AMD Ryzen client processors based on the Zen 6 cores...
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      Linux 7.3-rc6 Released: Normal For The New "AI Normal"

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18 hours ago

    Linus Torvalds just released Linux 7.3-rc7 as we work toward the stable Linux 7.3 kernel release in two weeks...