Category Archives: Phoronix

Intel Arc Graphics vs. AMD Radeon vs. NVIDIA GeForce For 1080p Linux Graphics In Late 2023

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Following last month’s launch of the Intel Arc Graphics A580 for a sub-$200 graphics card backed by an open-source Linux driver stack I ran some benchmarks looking at the Intel Arc Graphics compute performance against NVIDIA’s proprietary driver stack. In today’s article is a fresh look at the 1080p Linux gaming/graphics performance across Intel Arc Graphics, AMD Radeon, and NVIDIA GeForce GPUs while using the latest Linux drivers.

Source: Phoronix – Intel Arc Graphics vs. AMD Radeon vs. NVIDIA GeForce For 1080p Linux Graphics In Late 2023

Ubuntu's Miriway Maturing As A Mir-Based Wayland Compositor For Other Desktops

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In addition to Canonical continuing to invest in developing Mir as a platform now built atop Wayland, over the past year Canonical developers have been quietly working on Miriway as a Mir-based Wayland compositor and it’s becoming iteratively more useful…

Source: Phoronix – Ubuntu’s Miriway Maturing As A Mir-Based Wayland Compositor For Other Desktops

AMD Releases Six New EPYC 7003 "Milan" Processors

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While there is now the 4th Gen EPYC processors with the exciting and vast line-up from the very powerful general purpose Genoa(X) processors and Bergamo for CSPs and very dense servers to Siena for telco/edge, the 3rd Gen EPYC “Milan(X)” processors remain very viable. Especially for those seeking to minimize hardware costs, seeking very mature platforms, or looking to upgrade existing EPYC SP3 servers, the EPYC 7003 series remains quite competitive. Today AMD formally announced six new Milan processors…

Source: Phoronix – AMD Releases Six New EPYC 7003 “Milan” Processors

Mesa 24.0 Gets Asahi AGX Gallium3D To OpenGL 3.3 For Apple Silicon Hardware

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A set of 53 patches were upstreamed on Monday for syncing Mesa 24.0-devel against the latest Asahi AGX Gallium3D driver changes carried by Asahi Linux. This in turn is a big push for getting more of the open-source OpenGL functionality into Mesa for enjoying Linux on Apple M1 and M2 hardware…

Source: Phoronix – Mesa 24.0 Gets Asahi AGX Gallium3D To OpenGL 3.3 For Apple Silicon Hardware

Open-Source AMD OpenSIL Continues Making Progress To Eventually Replace AGESA

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Back at the OCP Summit in Prague earlier this year AMD detailed openSIL for advancing open-source system firmware by opening up the CPU siliccon initialization process. An update was provided at the OCP San Jose event in October around the AMD OpenSIL effort…

Source: Phoronix – Open-Source AMD OpenSIL Continues Making Progress To Eventually Replace AGESA

Linux 6.7 Perf Adds Support For Zen 4 Unified Memory Controller Events

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Going back to early last year saw AMD Linux engineers posting PerfMonV2 patches in preparation for Zen 4 processors. The PerfMonV2 updated performance monitoring capabilities with Zen 4 were merged last year and are supported with the latest EPYC 8004/9004 series processors. Coming only now though to Linux 6.7 is support for Unified Memory Controller (UMC) events as part of PerfMonV2…

Source: Phoronix – Linux 6.7 Perf Adds Support For Zen 4 Unified Memory Controller Events

GCC 14 Now Honors The -std=c23 & -std=gnu23 Compiler Options For C23

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While the next revision of the C standard won’t see its formal publishing until the 2024 calendar year, the ISO C++ standards committee already decided on keeping “C23” as the informal name for this next major C update. As such, with today’s GCC 14 Git the -std=c23 compiler option for targeting C23 is now honored along with -std=gnu23 for the GNU dialect of C23…

Source: Phoronix – GCC 14 Now Honors The -std=c23 & -std=gnu23 Compiler Options For C23

systemd 255-rc1 Brings "Blue Screen of Death" Support & New Tool To Spawn VMs

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Systemd 255-rc1 is out this morning and it’s packed with even more features for this dominant Linux init system and a growing list of other system utilities. Systemd 255 even is introducing systemd-bsod as a “Blue Screen of Death” for displaying important error messages during boot failure, systemd-vmspawn as a new tool to spawn virtual machines, and other new features…

Source: Phoronix – systemd 255-rc1 Brings “Blue Screen of Death” Support & New Tool To Spawn VMs

Hangover 8.19 Improves Box64 Integration For Running Windows Apps On AArch64 Wine

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Released last week was the newest version of Hangover, the project from Wine developers for helping Wine run on non-x86 CPU architectures for ultimately helping to make it easier to run x86/x86_64 Windows games/applications more easily on Linux AArch64, POWER, and RISC-V environments. The main focus still so far though is about allowing these Windows apps/games on ARM Linux systems…

Source: Phoronix – Hangover 8.19 Improves Box64 Integration For Running Windows Apps On AArch64 Wine

AMD Inception / SRSO Mitigation Further Cleaned Up With Linux 6.7

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Since the AMD Inception vulnerability was made public in August there were kernel patches merged that day and since then there’s been a few rounds of clean-ups and fixes for this mitigation code formally known as the Speculative Return Stack Overflow (SRSO). With Linux 6.7, more SRSO mitigation clean-ups have been merged…

Source: Phoronix – AMD Inception / SRSO Mitigation Further Cleaned Up With Linux 6.7