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      Nearing A 10 Second Kernel Build, Xeon 600 & Other September Excitement On Phoronix

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17:07

    During the past month on Phoronix were 284 original news articles and another 19 featured Linux hardware reviews/multi-page benchmark articles. A lot of exciting happenings both on the hardware and software fronts while October is sure to be another interesting month with the releases of Ubuntu 26.10, Fedora 45, and some more hardware fun...
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      Some Networking Fixes Being Diverted To Linux 7.4, AI/LLM Activity Still Increasing

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16:24

    With the vast array of wired and wireless networking drivers within the Linux kernel and range of protocols and other networking features, it's a big expanse of code for AI/LLM agents to analyze and critique. The Linux networking developers have acknowledged being "complete overwhelmed" by the AI/LLM-driven patch activity and bug reports as well as battling against AI slop patches. Even though Linux 7.3 stable won't be out for another three weeks, some networking fixes are already being diverted to the next kernel version...
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      Qt Creator 21 IDE Beta Enables More AI Functionality By Default

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14:10

    Following yesterday's release of the Qt 6.12 LTS toolkit, The Qt Group today released Qt Creator 21 in beta form as the latest version of their integrated development environment focused on C/C++ as well as Python, JavaScript, and other programming languages...
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      AMD RMPOPT Optimization Queued Ahead Of Linux 7.4

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12:52

    In addition to the very nice AMDGPU IOMMU optimization for iGPUs set to debut in the Linux 7.4 kernel, over on the AMD EPYC server side for servers running SEV-SNP virtual machines is a separate, nice optimization also expected for this next kernel version...
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      Clearing Out Linux's Old 32-bit ARM Platform Code Is Itself A Challenge

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12:04

    Longtime ARM Linux maintainer Arnd Bergmann over the past year has been working to clear out a number of old ARM platforms from the mainline kernel tree. With Linux 7.3 many older 32-bit ARM platforms were deprecated and in turn hundreds of kernel drivers orphaned. Now it's on to removing that actual code, which given the amount of entangled code, is itself a challenge...
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      Intel Optimization Zone 1.2 Released With New Guides & Recommendations

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11:06

    Earlier this year Intel announced the "Optimization Zone" as their new initiative to provide a centralized place to collect all their resources for maximizing performance and software tuning on Intel hardware platforms. They've continued building out more resources for the Intel Optimization Zone and yesterday released v1.2 with more tuning guides and best practices for optimal performance on Intel hardware...
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      NVIDIA Olympus SMT Optimizations For Vera CPU Showing 3~6% Performance Gains

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:27

    Back in August I wrote about NVIDIA working on Linux scheduler improvements for helping the SMT performance on their new Vera CPU with Olympus cores. That work remains ongoing but is looking fairly beneficial for performance especially for knocking it out in less than one hundred lines of code...
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      Qualcomm Continues Doing More For Their Open-Source Linux Graphics Drivers

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:17

    Rob Clark, who originally started working on the reverse-engineering Freedreno and MSM DRM graphics driver projects prior to even being employed by Qualcomm, presented this week at XDC 2026 Toronto around all the recent efforts they have been pursuing at Qualcomm for this upstream open-source graphics driver stack...
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      New Linux Patches Trying To Mainline Renesas SH7305 CPU Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9:55

    The Renesas SH7305 isn't a new processor and is well known for powering various Casio graphing calculators over the past decde and a half. But finally the mainline Linux kernel may end up seeing support for this 32-bit SH-4a RISC core...