AMDXDNA Driver For Ryzen AI Now Ready To Appear In The Linux kernel
The AMDXDNA kernel driver for Linux systems that was made open-source in January for supporting the Ryzen AI NPU on laptop SoCs going back to the Ryzen 7040 “Phoenix” series is now one step away from appearing in the mainline Linux kernel in the near future… ⌘ Read more

Virtual CPUFreq Driver Coming With Linux 6.13 For Better Power/Performance Within VMs
Earlier this week was the main power management updates for Linux 6.13 that included switching AMD EPYC Turin to using the amd_pstate driver on supported systems. Sent out this weekend was another set of power management updates that also includes a notable addition: the virtual CPUFreq driver… ⌘ Read more

Linux 6.13 Will Report The Number Of Hung Tasks Since Boot
Following all of the MM patches earlier this week sent in by Andrew Morton, on Sunday morning he sent out all of the non-MM patches that he manages for the Linux kernel. Notable for Linux 6.13 with this pull request is presenting the hung task counter as well as finishing off the folio conversion in the NILFS2 code… ⌘ Read more

FreeBSD 14.2-RC1 Brings Install Image Improvements
Ahead of FreeBSD 14.2 hopefully releasing in just over one week, FreeBSD 14.2-RC1 is out this weekend as the last planned development release for testing ahead of that much anticipated point release… ⌘ Read more

Microsoft Continues “Demikernel” Development LibOS For Kernel-Bypass I/O
A Microsoft Research project that was quietly announced a few years ago to some fanfare but not hearing much about since has been Demikernel as their library OS architecture for kernel-bypass I/O. A Phoronix reader brought up Demikernel this week and while it hasn’t been talked about much in recent years it does remain under active development with the most recent commits as of hours ago… ⌘ Read more

IBM Power11 CPUs Launching In 2025 - Linux 6.13 Preps KVM Nested Guests For Power11
IBM isn’t formally releasing Power11 processors until next year, but their software engineers continue being quite busy preparing the Linux kernel and other open-source software for Power11. The newest on the kernel side is enabling support for KVM nested guests on IBM Power11 platforms… ⌘ Read more

9elements Takes Over Intel 1st Gen Xeon Scalable “Skylake” Support Within Coreboot
For those still running a 1st Generation Xeon Scalable “Skylake” era server, support for it within the open-source Coreboot firmware may continue to improve all these years later thanks to firmware consulting firm 9elements… ⌘ Read more

Wine 9.22 Enables Wayland Driver By Default
Wine 9.22 is out this weekend ahead of the Wine 10.0-rc1 in two weeks… ⌘ Read more

KDE Plasma 6.3 Sees More Feature Work, One More Crash Fix For KWin
KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his traditional weekly development recap that highlights all of the interesting work taking place within the KDE desktop space… ⌘ Read more

Linux CoC Announces Decision Following Recent Bcachefs Drama
Following the recent messaging from Bcachefs lead developer Kent Oversteet that Bcachefs changes for Linux 6.13 were rejected on the basis of his Code of Conduct, the Linux CoC committee has now formally announced their decision… ⌘ Read more

AMD 3D V-Cache Optimizer Driver Headlines The x86 Platform Enhancements In Linux 6.13
The x86 platform driver updates were merged this week for the in-development Linux 6.13 and include some nice refinements, especially for those using AMD Ryzen on Linux… ⌘ Read more

Linux 6.13 Enhances Interactions Between Intel TDX Guests & VMMs
There are some new improvements in Linux 6.13 for the Intel TDX code for Trust Domain Extensions in providing hardware-based security protections for virtual machines on recent Xeon processors… ⌘ Read more

AMD Linux Graphics Driver Now Allows Display Support With Modern GPUs On LoongArch
Following the Linux 6.13 DRM feature pull this week that brought many new open-source kernel graphics driver features, it’s now time to further stabilize that new feature code with fixes. Sent out today were a batch of fixes for the AMDGPU/AMDKFD kernel driver code targeting the early Linux 6.13 state. In addition to fixes though is also allowing the AMDGPU Display Core “DC” code to build properly on LoongArch hardware for allowing rece … ⌘ Read more

AMD Bus Lock Trap Support Merged For Linux 6.13
Going back to early in the year AMD Linux engineers began preparing support for a new Bus Lock Trap feature with Zen 5 CPUs. With the in-development Linux 6.13 kernel that support is being merged… ⌘ Read more

Sched_Ext Changes Merged For Linux 6.13 With LLC & NUMA Awareness
One of the most prominent new features in Linux 6.12 was the merging of sched_ext for allowing extensible scheduler innovations by altering the scheduling behavior through (e)BPF programs. With the Linux 6.13 kernel there are some nice refinements to this extensible scheduler class… ⌘ Read more

Sched_Ext Changes Merged For Linux 6.13 With LLC & NUMA Awareness
One of the most prominent new features in Linux 6.12 was the merging of sched_ext for allowing extensible scheduler innovations by altering the scheduling behavior through (e)BPF programs. With the Linux 6.13 kernel there are some nice refinements to this extensible scheduler class… ⌘ Read more

XFS With Linux 6.13 Sees Major Rework To Real-Time Volumes
The XFS file-system updates were merged yesterday for the ongoing Linux 6.13 merge window… ⌘ Read more

New Sound Hardware Support In Linux 6.13
SUSE engineer and sound subsystem maintainer Takashi Iwai has submitted all of the sound driver updates for the Linux 6.13 kernel… ⌘ Read more

Nice File Performance Optimizations Coming With Linux 6.13
In addition to the pull requests managed by Microsoft engineer Christian Brauner for VFS untorn writes for atomic writes with XFS and EXT4, Tmpfs case insensitive file/folder support, new Rust file abstractions, and the renewed multi-grain timestamps work, another interesting Linux 6.13 pull submitted by Brauner revolves around VFS file enhancements… ⌘ Read more

Faster Raspberry Pi Graphics & Intel Xe3 Enablement Starts With Linux 6.13 DRM Changes
The Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) subsystem updates have been submitted for the Linux 6.13 merge window in bringing many updates to the open-source kernel graphics/display drivers as well as the accelerator subsystem… ⌘ Read more

ReiserFS Has Been Deleted From The Linux Kernel
Linus Torvalds just merged the change to the Linux 6.13 kernel that goes ahead and deletes the ReiserFS file-system from the source tree. Removing ReiserFS from the Linux tree lightens the kernel by 32.8k lines of code… ⌘ Read more

Mesa 24.3 Released With Many Open-Source Vulkan Driver Improvements
Mesa 24.3 has managed to make it out today, one week ahead of the previous release plans due to the lack of any major blocker bugs appearing. Mesa 24.3 has a lot of new feature work on the contained open-source Vulkan drivers as well as evolutionary improvements to their OpenGL drivers and other user-space 3D driver code… ⌘ Read more

Linux 6.13 SoC Updates Land With Initial Support For Many Older Apple Devices
The four pull requests adding various SoC and board/platform support have now been merged for the Linux 6.13 kernel. This includes support for many older Apple iPad/iPhones, supporting another SoC with a combination of RISC-V and ARM cores, and a wide variety of other mostly ARM hardware support… ⌘ Read more

Zrythm 1.0 Released For Powerful Open-Source Digital Audio Workstation
Zrythm 1.0 released today as a big milestone for this open-source digital audio workstation (DAW) software that caters from professional users down to beginners… ⌘ Read more

Khronos Announces Slang Initiative From Open-Source NVIDIA Code
On top of an exciting Vulkan spec update out today, The Khronos Group has announced the Slang Initiative based on NVIDIA’s open-source Slang compiler code… ⌘ Read more

VKD3D 1.14 Released With Initial Metal Shading Language Output
Ahead of the upcoming freeze for Wine 10.0, VKD3D 1.14 is now available for this prominent Wine component that allows Direct3D 12 to be implemented over the Vulkan API for enhancing Windows games/apps running on Linux and other platforms… ⌘ Read more

Linux 6.13 EDAC Preps For Panther Lake H & Missing Support For Old Kabylake S CPUs
The Error Detection And Correction (EDAC) subsystem updates landed this week for the ongoing Linux 6.13 kernel merge window… ⌘ Read more

PHP 8.4 Released With Property Hooks, Lazy Objects & Other New Features
PHP 8.4 is out today as the newest annual major feature release to this widely-used scripting language… ⌘ Read more

Vulkan 1.3.302 Published With AV1 Encode & NVIDIA Display Stereo Extensions
Vulkan 1.3.302 was published this morning with a handful of new extensions, including AV1 encode support for Vulkan Video… ⌘ Read more

Bcachefs Changes Rejected Reportedly Due To CoC, Kernel Future “Uncertain”
While the Bcachefs feature changes for Linux 6.13 were already submitted even before the Linux 6.12 stable kernel was released, merging these changes are supposedly on hold due to the kernel’s Code of Conduct (CoC) board… ⌘ Read more

Linux 6.13 Adds Support For Ultra Capacity SD Cards “SDUC” For 2TB To 128TB Storage
Linux 6.13 has merged support for the Secure Digital Ultra Capacity “SDUC” standard for 2TB to 128TB storage capacity SD cards… ⌘ Read more

Linux 6.13 “MM” Patches Bring Some Enticing Performance Optimizations
Andrew Morton on Monday submitted all the memory management “MM” related patches for the Linux 6.13 merge window. As usual there’s a lot of interesting performance optimizations and other low-level refinements… ⌘ Read more

Many Networking Changes In Linux 6.13 - One Line Of Code Helping WireGuard Performance
The abundance of networking subsystem updates have been mailed in for the Linux 6.13 kernel from wired and wireless driver enhancements to core networking code improvements… ⌘ Read more

8 vs. 12 Channel DDR5-6000 Memory Performance With AMD 5th Gen EPYC
As I wrote about last week within the Supermicro H13SSL-N EPYC Turin motherboard review, one of the factors leading me to purchasing that EPYC 9005 series motherboard was that this board offered support for full 12 channel DDR5-6000 memory performance compared to some of the other lower-cost Socket SP5 motherboards offering just 8 memory channels. For those wanting to quantify the performance difference between eight and twelve memory channels wi … ⌘ Read more

Raspberry Pi Camera Front End “CFE” Video Capture With Linux 6.13
Following the initial Raspberry Pi 5 upstream support in Linux 6.12 providing basic support, an exciting Raspberry Pi addition with the in-development Linux 6.13 kernel is introducing a Raspberry Pi Camera Front-End “CFE” driver… ⌘ Read more

Many AMD CPU Feature Additions Land In Linux 6.13
The in-development Linux 6.13 kernel is bringing a lot of exciting improvements for AMD Linux customers… ⌘ Read more

OpenVINO 2024.5 Released With More Intel Optimizations, Better LLM/GenAI Coverage
Intel’s open-source software developers released today OpenVINO 2024.5 as the newest major feature release for this cross-platform AI toolkit… ⌘ Read more

Faster CRC32C & AEGIS-128 Crypto Performance On Linux 6.13 With Intel/AMD CPUs
The crypto subsystem updates were merged yesterday for the in-development Linux 6.13 kernel. Among other crypto improvements are new optimizations for some algorithms when running on Intel and AMD x86_64 processors… ⌘ Read more

Multigrain Timestamps Try Again For Linux 6.13 - Now With Less Performance Impact
Merged last year for Linux 6.6 was multi-grain(ed) timestamps to address the current coarse-grained timestamps when updating creation time and modification time that a lot of I/O activity can happen in the once-per-jiffy timestamp. Just a few weeks in the Linux 6.6 kernel, multi-grain timestamps were removed due to bugs. The multigrain code went back to be reworked and now just over one year later the code has been re-merged … ⌘ Read more

Corsair Void Headset & Kysona M600 Lightweight Gaming Mouse Support In Linux 6.13
The HID subsystem updates have been submitted for the Linux 6.13 kernel cycle… ⌘ Read more

Lazy Preemption Merged Along With Other Scheduler Improvements For Linux 6.13
All of the scheduler feature changes were merged today for the Linux 6.13 kernel, including the introduction of the lazy preemption model… ⌘ Read more

FLTK 1.4 Released With Wayland & HiDPI Display Support
FLTK 1.4 is out as the newest version of the Fast Light Toolkit that has been around since the late 90’s… ⌘ Read more

New Linux Patch Lets You Force CPU Bugs/Mitigations Even When Not Vulnerable
While most users frown upon the increasing number of CPU security mitigations in part due to the additional overhead commonly introduced, a new Linux kernel patch by a Google engineer would allow users/developers to opt-in to forcing CPU bugs and their mitigations even if the system in use isn’t known to be vulnerable… ⌘ Read more

Blender 4.3 Released With AMD HIP-RT Ray-Tracing On Linux, Experimental Vulkan Backend
Blender 4.3 is out today as the newest feature update to this leading open-source 3D modeling software… ⌘ Read more

FreeCAD 1.0 Released With UI/UX Improvements, New Materials System
FreeCAD 1.0 was just released as a major update to this leading open-source, cross-platform 3D parametric modeler software… ⌘ Read more

Linux 6.13 PM Switches EPYC Turin To AMD P-State, More Aggressive Default For Intel GNR
The power management subsystem updates have been submitted for the newly opened Linux 6.13 merge window. As covered within individual articles over the past few weeks, the Linux 6.13 power management updates include some notable changes for both AMD and Intel systems… ⌘ Read more

Red Hat & Microsoft Bringing RHEL To WSL
The latest Linux distribution being brought to Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) with Microsoft’s blessing is none other than Red Hat Enterprise Linux… Microsoft and Red Hat jointly announced today that RHEL is coming to WSL… ⌘ Read more

Debian 13 Is Quickly Approaching - Desktop Artwork Voting Now Underway
The Debian 13 “Trixie” release is slated for 2025 and with the artwork voting now underway for the default desktop theme is a reminder that the release is quickly approaching… ⌘ Read more

Debian 13 Is Quickly Approaching - Desktop Artwork Voting Now Underway
The Debian 13 “Trixie” release is slated for 2025 and with the artwork voting now underway for the default desktop theme is a reminder that the release is quickly approaching… ⌘ Read more

MiTAC Releases AMD openSIL Based Open-Source Firmware For Their Capri2 EPYC Server
Ahead of SC24, MiTAC Computing has published their open-source firmware for their Open Compute Project (OCP) designed Capri2 AMD EPYC server. This open-source firmware stack makes use of AMD’s in-development openSIL for open-source CPU silicon initialization… ⌘ Read more