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      Arm Working On "TLBID" For Linux To Increase Performance On High Core Count CPUs

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 0:10

    Arm sent out an initial set of patches this week working on support in the Linux kernel for TLBI Domains. This "TLBID" feature is an upcoming Arm architecture capability designed to increase performance on high core count systems...
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      The Amazing Work By Valve's Timur Kristóf On Improving Old AMD GPUs On Linux

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 hours ago

    Over the past year Timur Kristóf of Valve's Linux graphics driver team has made multiple very nice improvements to the AMDGPU kernel driver for enhancing support for old (GCN 1.0/1.1 era from a decade ago) graphics cards so that they can better handle Linux gaming and other tasks. This week in Toronto, Kristóf presented on this AMDGPU work that he initially began as a kernel driver development exercise after initially spending years in user-space focused on the Mesa 3D driver code...
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      Linux Patches Show Promising Results For Lower Latency Of Short Slice Tasks

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 hours ago

    Linaro engineer Vincent Guittot sent out a set of patches on Friday working on scheduling latency improvements, especially when multiple short slice tasks are running concurrently on the same system...
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      Moose: GNOME Gains Another Local AI App Option

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 20 hours ago

    Beyond the various local AI agent/chat options not catering to a specific desktop environment, the GNOME desktop has seen Newelle as an AI app catering to GNOME/GTK4. There's now another local AI option for the GNOME desktop with Moose...
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      KosmicKrisp Now Conformant To Vulkan 1.4, Improving Performance Against Apple's Metal

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 20 hours ago

    KosmicKrisp is the effort led by LunarG for developing a modern Vulkan-on-Metal driver for Apple systems within Mesa. This modern alternative to MoltenVK continues progressing well and now enjoys Vulkan 1.4 conformance and its performance continues inching closer to that of the native Apple Metal API...
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      Linux 7.4 To Support The Raspberry Pi 10-Inch Touch Display 2

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21 hours ago

    We are nearing the cut-off of new feature material being accepted to DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 7.4 merge window. But this week another round of DRM-Misc changes made it, which included some new hardware support and other last minute items...
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      Linux 7.3 To Better Support The High-End Turtle Beach VelocityOne Race

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21 hours ago

    Coming with Sunday's Linux 7.3-rc6 kernel release is support added for the Turtle Beach VelocityOne Race, a high-end $649~700 USD racing wheel and pedal system...
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      KDE Plasma 6.8 Now Makes Tiled Windows Fit Together More Nicely

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21 hours ago

    There is just over one week to go until the much anticipated KDE Plasma 6.8 desktop release. Some last minute fixes continue flowing into Plasma 6.8 as well as early feature work continuing for Plasma 6.9...
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      Wine 11.19 Released With Wayland Color Management For Vulkan, DNS Query Caching

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    We are nearing the point of the Wine 12.0 stable release coming up in early 2027 while for now the Wine 11.xx bi-weekly development releases continue. Out today is Wine 11.19 with a few new features and plenty of fixes...