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      AMD's Lemonade SDK For Local AI Adds NVIDIA CUDA Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16:25

    Lemonade, the local AI server solution developed by AMD that is designed to work across their CPUs, GPUs, and NPUs, is out with a new version today that also adds NVIDIA CUDA support...
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      Intel Arc Pro B70 Showing Off Some Performance Wins With Linux 7.1

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14:46

    After recently noticing the Intel Arc B580 performing better on Linux 7.1 for that kernel version soon to be released as stable, I was curious if there were performance gains also to be found with the new flagship Arc Pro B70 BMG-G31 workstation graphics card. Here are some benchmarks of the Intel Arc Pro B70 in relevant workloads between Linux 7.0 and the near-final Linux 7.1 kernel.
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      Linux Foundation's Latest AI Effort Is Around AI Asset & Data Exchange

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14:39

    The Linux Foundation continues working to get more involved in new AI initiatives. Today the Linux Foundation announced the OpenSharing Project with an effort to standardize AI asset and data exchange...
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      NVIDIA Engineer Devises Patch To Significantly Reduce GCC Bootstrap Time

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13:30

    NVIDIA engineer Kyrylo Tkachov posted a patch for testing yesterday to significantly reduce the amount of time it takes the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) for conducting a native bootstrap. The time spent in the configure process for native GCC builds is reduced by around 43% while the overall bootstrap wall time is lowered by around 15%...
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      Linux's CrOS EC Driver To Support Custom Fan Curves - Useful For Framework Laptops

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13:12

    The cros_ec Linux kernel driver is used for supporting the ChromeOS Embedded Controller "EC" used by Chromebooks and various other laptops like Framework Laptops. With patches pending to cros_ec, support for custom fan curves is being introduced...
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      KDE KWin Patches Aiming To Optimize Gaming Latency To Better Compete With Windows

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:37

    Open-source developer Jakub Okoński has been working on comparing the gaming latency between Linux and Windows and in turn working to drive some improvements into KDE's KWin Wayland compositor so the latency is more competitive with the gaming experience under Microsoft Windows 11...
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      Linux Firmware Repository Preps For AI Coding Agents

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:25

    The linux-firmware.git repository that serves as the de facto home of all the binary blobs used by the mainline Linux kernel open-source drivers has now introduced AGENTS.md documentation and other preparations for embracing AI coding agents...
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      AMDGPU Linux Driver Preps For HDMI 2.1 Compliance Testing

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:11

    While not as exciting as features like HDMI 2.1 FRL and Display Stream Compression itself, as part of AMD's efforts to provide a fully open-source HDMI 2.1 driver implementation for AMDGPU, new code is being prepped for their kernel driver to support the HDMI compliance testing efforts...
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      Linux's KVM Preps For APX Support In VMs

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:00

    Among the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) work being queued ahead of the upcoming Linux 7.2 merge window are preparations for supporting Advanced Performance Extensions within KVM virtual machines...