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      Linux 7.4 To Support Realtek RTL8127atf & RTL8116af Networking

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:41

    Queued this past week into the net-next development tree of the latest networking additions for the Linux kernel is enabling support for Realtek's newer RTL8127atf and RTL8116af wired networking ASICs...
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      DirectX Support Promoted To Official Target Within LLVM

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:21

    Over the past four years there has been a lot of work on a DirectX back-end within the LLVM compiler stack. Microsoft has backed the initiative for being able to lower LLVM IR into the DirectX Intermediate Language (DXIL) for execution by Windows DirectX 12 graphics drivers. This back-end is now officially supported...
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      FEX 2609 Released With Speedier JIT Performance, JIT Disk Cache Option

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:09

    FEX 2609 was released overnight as the newest monthly feature release for this open-source emulator that allows running Linux x86_64 binaries on AArch64, including the likes of Steam and Steam Play (Proton) for enabling Windows games to run rather well on ARM64 Linux systems...
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      LLVM Merges Support For AMD's RMPCHKD, RMPREAD & RMPOPT Instructions

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9:58

    With the Linux kernel still working toward landing support for AMD's RMPOPT optimization for helping to reduce overhead on SEV-SNP enabled servers, the LLVM/Clang compiler has in turn prepped for the milestone by landing support for the RMPOPT, RMPREAD, and RMPCHKD instructions for Zen 5 and newer...
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      FreeBSD 14.5 Released With Hardware Support Improvements, Many Bug & Security Fixes

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 0:35

    For those that haven't yet made the move to FreeBSD 15 with still relying on FreeBSD 14 in production, out today is FreeBSD 14.5-RELEASE...
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      Mysterious x86 CPU Already Has APX, x86S Where Intel Left Off For Legacy-Free x86

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16 hours ago

    The mystery deepens around an x86 implementation from a corporate entity other than AMD and Intel and has been making some very intriguing changes for coming from a seeming start-up. Beyond 16 tile and 32 tile AMX implementations that already surpass Intel's current Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX) capabilities in shipping Xeon CPUs, new disclosures were made today concerning Advanced Performance Extensions (APX), Flexible Return and Event Delivery (FRED), and even x86S as the effort that Intel previously stopped for cleaning up the x86 baggage...
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      Ubuntu 26.10 amd64v3 Daily ISOs Now Being Published

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 23 hours ago

    As an interesting development for Ubuntu 26.10, the daily ISOs of the "Stonking Stingray" now include amd64v3 images...
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      Linux Preps For New AMD Zen 6 BTB CTX Isolation Security Feature

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    A recently posted Linux kernel patch has revealed a new security improvement with Zen 6 processors...
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      Nouveau Preparations For HDMI 2.1 DSC, AMD HDMI FreeSync Fixes For Linux 7.4

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    Last week's set of DRM-Misc-Next changes submitted to DRM-Next with targeting the upcoming Linux 7.4 kernel cycle features HDMI 2.1 related work for both the AMDGPU kernel driver as well as the Nouveau open-source NVIDIA driver...