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      Early Linux 7.3 Kernel Benchmarks Show Some Performance Improvements, Some Regressions

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13:38

    Being halfway through the Linux 7.3 kernel merge window and prior to wrapping up and sending back the HP Z4 G6i workstation powered by the Xeon 678X Granite Rapids WS processor, I decided to run some benchmarks to see how Linux 7.3 Git is performing relative to the prior stable kernel series. Here are the first benchmarks of this early state of Linux 7.3 with some performance improvements as well as some regressions.
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      GNU Emacs 31.1 Released With Mouse Control Enabled By Default, Theme For New Users

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11:55

    GNU Emacs 31.1 is out today as the newest feature release to this popular text editor...
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      VKD3D 2.1 Released With New Features For Direct3D 12 In Upstream Wine

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:34

    VKD3D 2.1 was released today by CodeWeavers' Henri Verbeet as the upstream Wine project for getting Direct3D 12 implemented over the Vulkan API...
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      Intel Engineers Propose DRM Fabric For Linux

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:26

    Coincidentally just days after AMD posted their big UALink patch series for Linux, Intel engineers today announced a proposal called DRM Fabric...
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      Linux 7.3 Adds Support For Several Newer RISC-V Extensions

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:12

    With the in-development Linux 7.3 is support for discovering and enumerating support for several newer RISC-V ISA extensions. Plus there are improvements to its control flow integrity Shadow Stack handling, CPU context switch support for QoS tagging, using UEFI runtime services for restart and powering off, and other improvements...
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      AMD k10temp Driver Adds EPYC Zen 5 Per-CCD Temperature Monitoring With Linux 7.3

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9:56

    Merged last week for the Linux 7.3 kernel were all the hardware monitoring (HWMON) driver updates for Linux 7.3, which included supporting several more ASUS desktop motherboards, a few AIO liquid cooling products, more Lenovo system support, and per-CCD temperature monitoring on AMD EPYC 9005 server processors...
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      Linux 7.3 Improving RAID 5/6 Benchmark-Based Algorithm Selection

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 0:38

    Following the main set of memory management "MM" changes submitted for Linux 7.3, Andrew Morton sent in his "non-MM" pull request of the other patches he's been collecting from various developers for this next Linux kernel release. Standing out there were some improvements to the RAID 5/6 benchmark-based algorithm selection...
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      Linux 7.3 Better Protects Against Buggy EFI Firmware Taking Down The Rest Of User-Space

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21 hours ago

    The EFI updates were merged today for the in-development Linux 7.3 kernel. Most notable with the EFI updates is now enforcing a timeout foe EFI runtime service completions rather than potentially hanging indefinitely...
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      Linux 7.3 Delivers Graphics Driver Improvements From Old GPUs To Next-Gen Hardware

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 hours ago

    The Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) subsystem updates have been merged for the ongoing Linux 7.3 merge window. There is a lot of exciting GPU kernel driver improvements this cycle ranging from some notable enhancements to old AMD Radeon graphics hardware up through enabling support for some next-generation AMD graphics IP blocks to over on the Intel side where Nova Lake S graphics are being enabled by default...