Earlier this month I noted that Intel’s open-source Linux graphics driver engineers had begun working on the OpenGL and Vulkan Mesa driver support for Xe 2 graphics as to be found with Lunar Lake “LNL” processors. Since then the initial hardware enablement work has only continued heating up…

Source: Phoronix – More Intel Xe2 / Lunar Lake Graphics Support Readied For Open-Source Mesa Drivers

Version 0.8 of uvg266 as one of the leading Versatile Video Codec (VVC) / H.266 open-source video encoders is now available…

Source: Phoronix – uvg266 Rolls Out More AVX2 Optimizations For Open-Source VVC/H.266 Encoding

TuxClocker has been in development for several years as another open-source GPU overclocking GUI for Linux. TuxClocker initially provided a Qt5-based user interface for GPU overclocking and ultimately established a D-Bus API as well with the new release. TuxClocker 1.0 was finally released today as the latest update to this Linux GPU overclocking software…

Source: Phoronix – TuxClocker 1.0 Released As An Alternative Way Of NVIDIA GPU Overclocking On Linux

A new version of the sdl12-compat library is now available, which serves as an SDL2 portability layer for allowing old SDL 1.2.x games and applications work on modern SDL2 systems…

Source: Phoronix – sdl12-compat 1.2.68 Allows More Games To Run On The Modern Linux Desktop

The past few weeks I’ve been putting the Lenovo ThinkPad P14s Gen 4 AMD mobile workstation through its paces that is powered by the AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U SoC. Besides uncovering one BIOS issue that is in the process of being resolved, this latest-generation AMD-powered laptop that features 64GB of LPDDR5X memory, 1TB NVMe SSD, and integrated Radeon graphics with 2.8K OLED display has been working out well on modern Linux distributions. Here’s a look at this AMD Zen 4 laptop running on Linux and plenty of performance benchmarks for this laptop.

Source: Phoronix – Lenovo ThinkPad P14s Gen 4 w/ AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U Running Nicely On Linux

For a year and a half now Pensando has been working on enabling their Elba SoC support for the mainline Linux kernel – a process that coincidentally began just days after AMD announced it was acquiring Pensando. Over the past 18 months the AMD-Pensando Elba SoC enablement work has now been through 16 rounds of code review but still isn’t over the finish line yet but some of the initial enablement code might finally land with Linux 6.7…

Source: Phoronix – Limited Support For The AMD Pensando Elba SoC Might Finally Land Upstream In Linux 6.7

The first of three parts for MSG_ZEROCOPY preparations for the VirtIO-Vsock driver have been queued into net-next ahead of planned introduction in the Linux 6.7 kernel as another means of achieving greater performance within virtual machines…

Source: Phoronix – VirtIO VSOCK MSG_ZEROCOPY To Begin Landing For Linux 6.7: More Performance

Intel’s open-source software engineers are known for many great performance optimizations to the Linux kernel. Over the years Intel has contributed countless performance optimizations to the kernel and related Linux components that have made significant improvements not only for Intel hardware but x86_64 as a whole and at times CPU architecture independent improvements. One of their newest performance optimizing patch series is around Per-CPU Pageset (PCP) high auto-tuning…

Source: Phoronix – Intel Has Another Series Optimizing Linux Performance With PCP High Auto-Tuning

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

Qt 6.6 is nearing release for this open-source and cross-platform toolkit while out this morning is the release candidate…

Source: Phoronix – Qt 6.6 Nears Release With RC Offered Up For Testing

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

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

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

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

Ahead of the formal announcement on Tuesday, Mozilla today uploaded the Firefox 118.0 release binaries as the latest monthly update for this cross-platform web browser…

Source: Phoronix – Firefox 118 Available With Performance Improvements, Automated Translations

The PipeWire audio and video streams solution for the Linux desktop is planning its big version “1.0” release for later in the year…

Source: Phoronix – PipeWire 1.0 Planned For Release Later This Year

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”

The much-delayed Mesa 23.2 will try to make it out this week with Mesa 23.2-rc4 having been issued on Sunday…

Source: Phoronix – Mesa 23.2 Will Try To Release This Week

GNOME 45 released last week and while it has many interesting desktop improvements, a feature still not found upstream is the Canonical-led work on dynamic triple buffering for Mutter…

Source: Phoronix – Dynamic Triple Buffering Patch Updated For GNOME 45

With roughly just about one month to go until the stable release, Linux 6.6-rc3 was released today as the newest test release of Linux 6.6…

Source: Phoronix – Linux 6.6-rc3 Released With MG Timestamps Removed