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      Darling Now Embraces AI For Running macOS Binaries On Linux

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13:02

    Darling is the software project more than a decade in development that is designed to run macOS binaries on Linux. This macOS compatibility layer for Linux is now gaining more brisk developments as it turns to AI/LLMs to assist in this creation...
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      ChaCha AVX-512 Optimization For Linux 7.5 Yields Up To 99% Improvement On AMD Zen 5

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12:35

    The Linux kernel's ChaCha symmetric stream cipher code has long had an AVX-512 optimized code path but it was catering to the early generations of Intel CPUs with AVX-512 (Skylake) that suffered from down-clocking under use. But now slated for arrival with Linux 7.5 is tuning the code to perform better on today's AVX-512 Intel and AMD processors that don't suffer from this limitation. In turn the ChaCha performance is as much as 99% faster with current-generation AMD Zen 5 processors...
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      Linux Seeing Driver Work For MSI Mystic Light On Latest Ryzen Motherboards

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11:20

    MSI's latest Ryzen motherboards with AMD 800 series chipsets feature a new capability marked as Mystic Light for RGB lighting controls of the motherboard as well as compatible graphics cards and cases. MSI Mystic Light control software is only offered for Microsoft Windows but thanks to an open-source developer with the help of Claude Code, a Mystic Light open-source driver is being worked on for the Linux kernel...
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      Linux 7.5 To Convey To User-Space Multi-Grain Timestamp Usage On Files

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11:08

    Merged for Linux 6.13 back in 2024 was multigrain timestamp support for being able to switch between coarse and fine-grained change/modification time reporting on a per-file basis. This is useful if caring about accuracy more than the once-per-jiffy timestamps on files and was originally devised as a way of addressing NFS caching issues. A limitation of multigrain timestamps though has been the lack of user-space to know whether a file's timestamps are multi-grain or not...
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      New Linux Patches Bring-Up The Samsung Galaxy XR Headset, Qualcomm Halliday SoC

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:46

    Samsung's Galaxy XR headset runs on Android XR by default with its own downstream kernel patches. A user leveraging AI with multiple LLMs has now drafted an initial set of patches getting the Galaxy XR headset working on the mainline kernel along with bringing up the Qualcomm Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 2 "Halliday" SoC that powers this VR/XR headset...
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      Intel ANV Lands Bitrate Control For AV1 Encoding

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:30

    Hyunjun Ko of Igalia continues working on enhancing the Vulkan Video support in the Mesa ANV driver for better open-source video acceleration support...
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      Linux 7.4-rc2 Released With FAT32 Optimization, AMDGPU HDMI 2.2 Improvement

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 0:48

    Linus Torvalds just released the second weekly release candidate of Linux 7.4 with some notable bug fixes and other changes routed in past the merge window. It's another big one in the AI era...
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      Linux 7.5 To Provide More AMD Ryzen AI NPU AIE4 Enablement

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    Even before the Linux v7.4 merge window was over, there were already two pull requests of drm-misc-next material targeting for what will be Linux 7.5. This week already saw the third drm-misc-next pull request of more feature patches targeting this next kernel version...
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      AMD PerfOpt Performance Boosting Code Tweaked For Linux 7.4-rc2

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    Of the many exciting changes in Linux 7.4, one of the exciting out-of-the-box performance improvements is the new "PerfOpt" functionality for AMD SoCs with integrated Radeon graphics. AMD PerfOpt can deliver some nice iGPU performance improvements especially for AI/LLM workloads. With today's Linux 7.4-rc2 kernel release there are a few tweaks to the PerfOpt code in the IOMMU area...