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      Google's "Painful To Maintain" Binder C Linux Driver Being Removed In Favor Of Rust

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16:26

    Google's Binder driver written in the C programming language has long been part of the mainline kernel as the inter-process communication (IPC) mechanism used on Android. The past few years the Binder driver was rewritten in Rust as one of the first "real" drivers in the Rust programming language. The Rust Binder driver was upstreamed in Linux 6.18 and now for the upcoming Linux 7.4 kernel cycle, the old Binder C-based driver is set to be retired...
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      Apple Video Decode Driver Posted For Upstream Linux Kernel Review

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15:52

    The latest Apple Silicon enablement code working its way from the Asahi Linux project toward the upstream Linux kernel is the AVD driver used for accelerated video playback across Apple M1 / M2 / M3 SoCs...
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      AMD Strix Halo Enjoys Some Performance Gains On Ubuntu 26.10, Especially With amd64v3

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14:00

    Ahead of next week's Ubuntu 26.10 beta release I have been testing the "Stonking Stingray" on a variety of systems. Ubuntu 26.10 is performing well overall with some nice upgrades over Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, especially if opting to use the new snapshot/daily ISOs of Ubuntu 26.10 in amd64v3 form for x86_64-v3 packages. In today's tests are a look at the performance benefits of Ubuntu 26.10 on an AMD Ryzen AI Max+ "Strix Halo".
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      Linux Ready With Fix For Intel's FRED Crashing Some Games Under Wine / Steam Play

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13:03

    Recently there have been some bug reports to Mesa around Intel Panther Lake graphics crashing with some games like Red Dead Redemption 2 and Elden Ring crashing or freezing quite quickly. This turns out not to be an Intel Xe3 Arc Graphics B390 driver bug with Panther Lake but rather due to a kernel issue with the new Flexible and Return Event Delivery "FRED" that debuted with the Core Ultra Series 3 processors...
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      Ubuntu 26.10 Desktop Adjusting Its Behavior Under Memory Pressure

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:40

    The Ubuntu 26.10 desktop is adjusting its default out-of-memory (OOM) daemon behavior when dealing with memory pressure on the system...
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      Help Linux Hardware Testing & Reviews Continue While Enjoying Phoronix Without Ads

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:30

    If you missed out on the Phoronix Premium special back during the 22nd birthday of Phoronix.com in June, there is another promotion now active for helping to support the site and allow for continued daily original content and relentless Linux performance benchmarking and other open-sourced focused hardware testing...
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      Linux Kernel Build Times Ready To Be Significantly Reduced With Latest Patches

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:26

    The past few weeks we have eagerly been following a Linux kernel patch series after AI found some major bottlenecks in the Linux kernel build code. With AI helping to address these bottlenecks, Linux kernel build times are substantially reduced. These optimizations might be ready in time for Linux 7.4 for reducing incremental kernel build times as much as around 70%. This week the latest iteration of these patches were posted by Arm engineer Lorenzo Stoakes...
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      OpenCL 3.1.2 Released With cl_khr_command_buffer Promoted

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 0:33

    The Khronos Group today released the newest revision of the OpenCL specification with a handful of changes...
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      Jemalloc 5.4 Released With Portability Improvements, Code Cleanups

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 20 hours ago

    Earlier this year Meta announced a renewed investment into the jemalloc memory allocator that's been popular for server and HPC use among various desktop use-cases too. After stagnating a bit in recent years, Jemalloc has been off to seeing new developments since Meta's announcement and out today is Jemalloc 5.4 as the latest step forward...