Category Archives: Linux

Arctic Freezer 4U-M Is A Nice 4U Cooler Capable Of Cooling High-End AMD & Intel CPUs

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If you are looking for a CPU heatsink-fan combination that will fit within 4U rackmount server height requirements while being capable of cooling the latest high-end Intel Xeon and AMD EPYC / Threadripper processors while not being too expensive nor noisy, the Arctic Freezer 4U-M is a rare solution that can cross off all those checkboxes.

Source: Phoronix – Arctic Freezer 4U-M Is A Nice 4U Cooler Capable Of Cooling High-End AMD & Intel CPUs

Ampere Preparing The ARM64 Linux Kernel To Support Higher CPU Core Counts

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Ampere Computing has sent out its latest patch attempt at increasing the number of Arm CPU cores supported by the mainline Linux kernel. As it stands at the moment the 64-bit ARM mainline Linux kernel build supports 256 cores, which can be exceeded with Ampere’s new AmpereOne processors in a multi-socket configuration…

Source: Phoronix – Ampere Preparing The ARM64 Linux Kernel To Support Higher CPU Core Counts

"GMEM" Proposed To Deal With Memory Management For Accelerators, External Memory Devices

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Generalized Memory Management “GMEM” has been proposed as a new solution to be developed for the Linux kernel to deal with memory management for external memory devices like the growing number of accelerators coming to market…

Source: Phoronix – “GMEM” Proposed To Deal With Memory Management For Accelerators, External Memory Devices

Coreboot 4.22 Released: Initial AMD OpenSIL Code Added, 17 New Motherboards

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A new release of Coreboot is available today as the increasingly popular open-source system firmware solution that’s used by Chromebooks, increasing hyperscaler / data center industry interest due to increased code transparency and security, System76 laptops, and more. Coreboot 4.22 is the new release and brings initial AMD OpenSIL code integration, 17 new motherboard ports, and more. Coreboot 4.22 will be succeeded next year by Coreboot 24.02…

Source: Phoronix – Coreboot 4.22 Released: Initial AMD OpenSIL Code Added, 17 New Motherboards

[$] Using drgn on production kernels

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The drgn Python-based kernel
debugger was developed by Omar Sandoval for use in his job on the kernel
team at Meta. He now spends most of his time working on drgn, both in
developing new features for the tool and in using
it to debug production problems at Meta, which gives him a view of both
ends of that feedback loop. At the 2023
Linux Plumbers
Conference (LPC), he led a session on drgn in the kernel debugging
microconference, where he wanted to brainstorm on how to add some new
features to the debugger and, in particular, how to allow them to work on
production kernels.

Source: LWN.net – [$] Using drgn on production kernels

FriendlyELEC NAS Kit with 2.5GbE port and up to 16GB RAM

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FriendlyELEC has just launched a NAS kit built around a System-on-Module based on the high-performance Rockchip RK3588 SoC. Some key features of this device include its 2.5GbE port, dual HDMI ports, dual MIPI DSI ports and four M.2 Key M slots This embedded device features the Rockchip processor seen this month in the Banana Pi […]

Source: LXer – FriendlyELEC NAS Kit with 2.5GbE port and up to 16GB RAM

Intel CR 23.35.27191.9 Released As A Big Update To Their Open-Source GPU Compute Stack

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Intel today published Compute-Runtime 23.35.27191.9 as their latest update to this open-source GPU compute stack enabling OpenCL and oneAPI Level Zero support on Linux and Windows. With this being their first tagged release since September, it’s coming in heavy on changes…

Source: Phoronix – Intel CR 23.35.27191.9 Released As A Big Update To Their Open-Source GPU Compute Stack

PipeWire 1.0 — An interview with PipeWire creator Wim Taymans

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Wim Taymans is a Fedora contributor and the creator of PipeWire, the system service that takes audio and video handling under Linux to the next level. Combining the power of PulseAudio and JACK, and adding a video equivalent of those audio services, allows Linux to become a premier content creation platform for audio engineers and […]

Source: LXer – PipeWire 1.0 — An interview with PipeWire creator Wim Taymans