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      AMD Linux Graphics Driver Introducing "Power Module" To Better Match Windows Behavior

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 0:48

    With the set of today's AMDGPU kernel graphics driver Display Core (DC) patches is a rather curious addition with wiring up the Linux code to a "power module" that looks like it will better match Microsoft Windows behavior with the AMD Radeon driver around display-related power savings features...
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      Linux 7.1 Delivers Performance Regression Fix For Sheaves

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 0:28

    The Linux 7.1 kernel is bringing performance improvements for Sheaves, the per-CPU caching layer introduced several kernel cycles ago (Linux 6.18) for better efficiency on today's high core count hardware. Sheaves began as an opt-in feature but since Linux 7.0 is now being used for all caches...
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      SDL Adds Policy To Forbid LLM/AI Generated Code Contributions

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9 hours ago

    The SDL library widely used by cross-platform games and part of the Steam Runtime has now established a policy to block code contributions made using AI / Large Language Models (LLMs)...
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      WQ_AFFN_CACHE_SHARD Merged For Linux 7.1: Significant Win For CPUs With Many Cores Per LLC

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11 hours ago

    The workqueue changes merged today for the Linux 7.1 kernel are significant for today's modern high-end processors where there can be many CPU cores per last level cache (LLC / L3 cache). The new WQ_AFFN_CACHE_SHARD affinity scope can reduce some contention on such systems and help achieve greater performance...
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      Arch Linux's Archinstall 4.2 Fixes Botched Disk Encryption Security

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11 hours ago

    Archinstall 4.2 is now available as the latest update to this very convenient, text-based Arch Linux OS installer...
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      Linux 7.1 Is A Big Win For Intel Panther Lake With FRED Now Enabled By Default

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13 hours ago

    Last month I ran benchmarks showing the very positive performance impact FRED has on Intel's new Panther Lake processors while wondering why Flexible Return and Event Deliver wasn't enabled by default yet on Linux. Hours after that story was published, an Intel engineer posted the patch to enable FRED by default with the rationale they were waiting for hardware to be publicly released in order to evaluate the performance benefit. Days after that the FRED-by-default patch hit tip/tip.git and now as of yesterday that patch is merged for Linux 7.1...
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      Intel Arc Pro B70 Open-Source Linux Performance Against NVIDIA RTX & AMD Radeon AI PRO

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 hours ago

    Last week after receiving the Intel Arc Pro B70 review hardware I began with some benchmarks looking at how the Arc Pro B70 compared to existing Intel GPUs on Linux with their fully open-source driver stack. Today's article features the latest Arc Pro B70 benchmarks under Linux in looking at how the performance and value compares to other NVIDIA RTX and AMD Radeon (AI) PRO workstation graphics cards in the lab.
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      Mesa 26.1-rc1 Released For Testing With Many New Vulkan Extensions & Optimizations

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16 hours ago

    Eric Engestrom stepped up again to serve as Mesa release manager for this quarter's Mesa 26.1 feature release. Mesa 26.1-rc1 was just released in kicking off the weekly release candidate dance until Mesa 26.1 stable is ready for debut in May...
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      Fedora 45 To Consider Building x86_64-v3 Packages

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 hours ago

    A change proposal has been filed to build x86_64-v3 micro-architecture feature level packages alongside the existing x86_64-v1 packages for Fedora Linux...