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      AMD ROCm 10.1 Released With Many Improvements

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22:08

    Following the ROCm 10.0 release from late August, ROCm 10.1 is now available in continuing with the ROCm six week release cycle...
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      Linux 7.4 To Land New BTB CTX Isolation Feature Of AMD Zen 6

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18:47

    The Linux 7.4 kernel is set to introduce support for a new AMD Zen 6 security feature...
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      Auto-CPUFreq 3.2 Adds Configurable HWP Dynamic Boost, Platform Profile Reporting

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15:36

    The open-source Auto-CPUFreq tool for active system monitoring and power optimizations is out with a new release for continuing to enhance battery life on Linux laptops...
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      AMD ROCm vs. Vulkan Performance For Lemonade Local AI Server With Llama.cpp

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13:50

    A Phoronix Premium reader recently inquired about seeing some new benchmarks of AI performance between Vulkan and AMD ROCm back-ends to see how the situation plays out today. Here are some fresh benchmarks on two separate systems with AMD Radeon graphics and using the Lemonade local AI server while exploring the difference between the ROCm and Vulkan Llama.cpp back-ends.
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      Mesa Developers Looking At A Formal Governance Model

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13:04

    The Mesa 3D driver stack has functioned well over the years without a formal governance model and just relying on an informal consensus approach for big changes. But on some occasions this informal handling has been less than ideal so upstream Mesa developers are now looking at establishing a formal governance model...
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      Linux's ZRAM Reworked For Greater Memory Savings, Better Performance

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12:44

    With today's very high memory prices, the Linux ZRAM code for compressed block devices in RAM has seen a rework to provide greater memory savings...
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      Linux 7.4 To Mainline Support For The Google Tensor G5, Pixel 10 Devices

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11:33

    Going back to last year have been patches for booting the mainline Linux kernel on Pixel 10 devices while finally those Google Pixel 10 Device Trees and Tensor G5 SoC support is set to be mainlined for Linux 7.4...
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      Mold 3.0 High Speed Linker Released Following Rust Rewrite

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:29

    The Mold high speed linker alternative to the likes of GNU Gold/LD and LLVM LLD recently has been going through a rewrite from C++ to Rust as well as having high ambitions of eventually becoming the default linker on Linux systems. Today marks the release of Mold 3.0 for this Rust-based high performance linker...
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      Linux 7.4 Continues Preparing For Intel's Rugged Panther Lake

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:23

    Back in May we spotted a Linux patch adding "Panther Lake R" as a rugged version of Panther Lake intended for "use in harsh environments". Since Linux 7.2 we have seen some bits of Panther Lake R driver support added while for the upcoming Linux 7.4 cycle there is additional enablement happening for this Panther Lake derivative...