Category Archives: Phoronix

Intel's Habana Labs Driver Quietly Drops References To The Greco AI Processor

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Announced last year at the Intel Vision conference was the Habana Labs Gaudi2 and Greco AI hardware. Since then we’ve seen a lot of Linux kernel driver work happen for enabling the Gaudi2 second-generation training and inference AI processor while there hasn’t been anything real in the way for Greco, which was the successor to the Goya AI processor. Now references to Habana Labs Greco are being removed from the driver…

Source: Phoronix – Intel’s Habana Labs Driver Quietly Drops References To The Greco AI Processor

OCRmyPDF 15.0 Released For Optical Character Recognition Of PDF Files

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A major update to OCRmyPDF is now available, the open-source project that can work on scanned PDFs and other PDF documents to add an optical character recognition (OCR) text layer to files for allowing them to be searched or copy-pasted. OCRmyPDF makes it a breeze in dealing with scanned PDF text files and now with OCRmyPDF v15 is even better…

Source: Phoronix – OCRmyPDF 15.0 Released For Optical Character Recognition Of PDF Files

Linux 6.7 Adding New Feature To Btrfs For The Steam Deck

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Queued up into the Btrfs file-system driver’s “for-next” branch ahead of the Linux 6.7 cycle is the Temp-FSID (Same-FSID) feature that is being pursued for use by Valve’s Steam Deck game console. The functionality is to overcome a limitation of allowing Btrfs to mount two different devices holding the same file-system image and therefore the same file-system ID…

Source: Phoronix – Linux 6.7 Adding New Feature To Btrfs For The Steam Deck

Intel Continues GCC Compiler Preparations For AVX10 & APX

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Since announcing the Advanced Performance Extensions (APX) and AVX10 back in July, Intel’s open-source compiler engineers have been busy preparing the GCC and LLVM/Clang compiler toolchains for these major CPU extensions to be found with future Intel processors…

Source: Phoronix – Intel Continues GCC Compiler Preparations For AVX10 & APX

The Downfall Mitigation Impact For Xeon E-2300 Series On Linux 6.5

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Last month the Downfall CPU security vulnerability was disclosed that impacts various AVX/AVX-512 workloads. Now that there’s been a few weeks for the Linux kernel code to settle around the mitigation and the latest Intel CPU microcode becoming more broadly available, here is a fresh look at the performance impact of the Downfall mitigation on affected AVX workloads.

Source: Phoronix – The Downfall Mitigation Impact For Xeon E-2300 Series On Linux 6.5

KDE Making It Easier To Find Or Offer "Sponsored Work"

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If you are particularly annoyed by a bug or missing feature with the KDE desktop, there’s a new and easier means of advertising your interest in sponsoring work to get a bug or feature addressed. Similarly for experienced KDE developers a more centralized means of finding sponsored work opportunities…

Source: Phoronix – KDE Making It Easier To Find Or Offer “Sponsored Work”

Linux 6.7 Will Allow More Efficient Use With Intel QAT Gen4 Hardware

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With the Linux 6.7 kernel this winter there is a new feature coming to Intel’s QuickAssist Technology (QAT) device driver that will allow more efficient use with QAT Gen4 hardware such as the latest-generation Intel Xeon Scalable “Sapphire Rapids” processors…

Source: Phoronix – Linux 6.7 Will Allow More Efficient Use With Intel QAT Gen4 Hardware

Linux's Multi-Grain Timestamps Short-Lived: Removed From The Kernel After A Few Weeks

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One of the new features merged for the Linux 6.6 kernel was multi-grained timestamps for the VFS layer and wiring it up for the EXT4, Btrfs, XFS, and Tmpfs file-systems. This alternative though to coarse-grained timestamps ended up exposing some problems and this week ahead of Linux 6.6-rc3, the feature has been stripped entirely from the kernel…

Source: Phoronix – Linux’s Multi-Grain Timestamps Short-Lived: Removed From The Kernel After A Few Weeks

Intel's DAOS 2.4 Storage Engine Released

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While Intel divested its storage business and Intel Optane was sadly discontinued, one of the interesting open-source software projects from its storage efforts has been DAOS, the Distributed Asynchronous Object Storage engine. Version 2.4 of the DAOS software-defined object store designed for high-speed storage was released this past week…

Source: Phoronix – Intel’s DAOS 2.4 Storage Engine Released

Mold 2.2 Linker Released With More Optimizations, BLAKE3 Crypto Hashing

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Rui Ueyama published today a new version of Mold, the open-source high speed linker that has easily outpaced the common linkers from the GNU and LLVM projects. Mold 2.2 continues work on its performance quest, expanding its multiple CPU architectures supported, and other new work…

Source: Phoronix – Mold 2.2 Linker Released With More Optimizations, BLAKE3 Crypto Hashing

Blumenkrantz Optimizes Mesa Vulkan Submission Merging – Some Test Cases Improve 1000%+

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Mike Blumenkrantz, who is part of Valve’s stellar Linux graphics driver team, has managed another impressive feat of further optimizing the Mesa Vulkan driver code that benefits multiple drivers / hardware vendors…

Source: Phoronix – Blumenkrantz Optimizes Mesa Vulkan Submission Merging – Some Test Cases Improve 1000%+

Cairo 1.18 Released – First Stable Release In Five Years

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Cairo 1.18 was released today as the first major stable release to this 2D graphics library in five years. This vector-based graphics library is widely-used for a variety of purposes from GNOME’s GTK toolkit to other apps making use of Cairo for targeting different back-ends from PDFs to OpenGL contexts. Mozilla Firefox, WebKit, Mono, and many other open-source projects are notable users of Cairo…

Source: Phoronix – Cairo 1.18 Released – First Stable Release In Five Years