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      Intel Linux Driver Orphaned For Limiting RF Exposure To Humans

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21:13

    Over the past year and a half a number of open-source drivers in the Linux kernel have been orphaned as a result of departures from the company. The impact has ranged from the Intel CPU "coretemp" temperature driver being orphaned without a maintainer to other lesser known Intel drivers. Another lesser known Intel driver is now being orphaned with no longer having a maintainer at the company: the Intel Specific Absorption Rate Driver...
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      AMD Preparing To Enable HDMI 2.1 FRL Support By Default For Linux

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19:45

    It was back in May that the surprising event happened of AMD posting HDMI 2.1 FRL patches for their open-source AMDGPU Linux driver as part of their broader HDMI 2.1 bring-up. For years the open-source HDMI 2.1 support in AMDGPU was blocked by the HDMI Forum but whether it was due to Valve or some other event, the code was finally unblocked. While it's been part of the kernel since Linux 7.2, it's been disabled by default -- except that is now changing...
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      Linux 7.3 MGLRU Change Helps Executable Code Stays In Memory, Improving Performance

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18:20

    Following last week's main set of memory management "MM" related updates for Linux 7.3, another batch of MM code updates were submitted and merged today as we prepare to close out the Linux 7.3 merge window. There are a few optimization patches that stand out along with other mostly small fixes/changes...
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      AMD Jumps From ROCm 7.14 To ROCm 10.0 With ROCm.AI

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15:26

    Back in July ROCm 7.14 was announced as their new production release built atop TheRock build system and introducing Ryzen AI 400 series support. The versioning choice was a bit odd since ROCm 7.2 was the stable release at the time while ROCm 7.9+ turned into "tech preview" releases. With ROCm 7.14, it was declared stable. In clearing up that versioning mess, they have done a major version bump... to ROCm 10.0...
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      Btrfs, EXT4, F2FS & XFS On Linux 7.2 vs. Linux 7.3 Performance

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15:13

    Earlier this week I showed off some of the very nice Btrfs performance gains on Linux 7.3. For those wondering what kernel optimizations may have carried over to other file-systems or other file-system specific enhancements, here are Linux 7.2 vs. 7.3 Git performance benchmarks across Btrfs, EXT4, F2FS, and XFS on the same system.
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      Linux 7.3 Adds RWF_DONTCACHE Support For Block Devices

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14:15

    With the never-ending quest for greater I/O performance in the HPC space and the demands all the more relentless in the AI era, the Linux kernel block subsystem activity continues to be as vibrant as ever along with the ongoing innovations in the IO_uring space...
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      Lemonade 11.8 Makes It Easy To Run DeepSeek V4 Flash On AMD Strix Halo

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13:19

    For those interested in making use of the recently released DeepSeek V4 Flash model, AMD developers have released Lemonade 11.8 that now makes it rather trivial to get DeepSeek V4 Flash up and running on AMD Ryzen AI+ Max "Strix Halo" systems...
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      Libgcrypt 1.12.3 Brings Intel SM3 / SM4 / SHA512 Optimizations

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12:21

    Werner Koch announced today the release of Libgcrypt 1.12.3 with various bug fixes and more exciting are the performance improvements...
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      Intel ANV Driver Improves Vulkan Video H.265 Decoding

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:32

    Merged back in 2023 was Intel ANV Vulkan Video support for H.265 decoding. But it's been slightly out of compliant with the Vulkan spec, which is now fixed with the newest code for Mesa 26.3 by engaging the HuC firmware...