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      Linux 7.4 Adding New Emulation Function For Some Old CPUs That May Soon Be Phased Out

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:26

    Linux 7.4 is seeing a new emulation function added for cmpxchg() for compare and exchange. This is being done so that two-byte cmpxchg() can be used in common Linux kernel code that is already natively supported on newer CPU architectures. The pull request notes though that these old CPU architectures might no longer be supported by the Linux kernel moving ahead...
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      17k Lines Of New Rust Kernel Code Heading Into Linux 7.4

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:04

    Miguel Ojeda sent out his pull request of the new Rust kernel code slated for introduction in Linux 7.4. It's a big one this round due to updating the Zerocopy vendored library plus updating other Rust crates for the kernel...
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      OpenBSD 8.0 Released With Intel Arc A-Series, Other Hardware Improvements

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9:44

    Theo de Raadt released OpenBSD 8.0 today as the 61st release of this BSD operating system...
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      AMD GAIA 0.25 Brings Several Improvements For Local AI Agents On Ryzen AI

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 0:25

    AMD GAIA 0.25 is out this week as the latest feature release for this open-source project that began as "Generative AI Is Awesome" and is now going on a tag line of "AMD's open-source agent factory" in building/using local AI agents on AMD Ryzen AI hardware...
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      Linux 7.4 Sunsetting Old EDAC Drivers Due To "AI Generated Fixes Frenzy"

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13 hours ago

    In addition to introducing the new Intel BFF driver, the Error Detection And Correction "EDAC" kernel subsystem is sunsetting a number of old hardware drivers due to increased noise to AI/LLM-generated bug fixes for these likely unused or minimally used drivers...
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      Btrfs Brings More Performance Improvements For Linux 7.4

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 hours ago

    With Linux 7.3 there are some nice Btrfs performance improvements to enjoy while the in-development Linux 7.4 kernel is set to bring some additional performance optimizations for this copy-on-write file-system...
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      Intel Working To Add XMX-Accelerated XeSS To Valve's Steam Play (Proton)

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18 hours ago

    An Intel engineer opened the pull requests today for adding Intel XeSS support to Valve's Proton for Steam Play along with associated changes to VKD3D-Proton and DXVK...
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      Linus Torvalds' AI Code Improved: Huge Performance Wins With Reworked Code

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 hours ago

    Last week I wrote about Linus Torvalds leveraging AI to come up with a hefty Linux kernel improvement using Claude Code. The code is for reading from the page cache without folio references to help workloads of small reads from a single file across many CPU threads. Meta engineer Kiryl Shutsemau has taken that code and reworked it and showing extremely promising performance results...
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      Linux In 2026 Continues Improving Support For Benefiting Old Atari & Amiga Hardware

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 hours ago

    The Motorola 68000 "m68k" CPU support continues being maintained in the mainline Linux kernel and continuing to see new hardware support for these vintage systems from the likes of Commodore Amiga, Atari, and early Apple Macintosh models...