Going along with LLVM’s recent additions around supporting new Intel instructions coming with future generation Core CPUs, the LLVM 18 Git development code has now landed support for actually honoring -march=arrowlake, -march=arrowlake-s, and -march=lunarlake targets…

Source: Phoronix – LLVM 18 Lands -march=arrowlake / arrowlake-s / lunarlake

AMD lifted the embargo this evening on the Ryzen 9 7945HX3D, their first mobile processor sporting 3D V-Cache technology for boosting gaming performance and other cache-happy workloads…

Source: Phoronix – AMD Unveils The Ryzen 9 7945HX3D For Laptops With 3D V-Cache

This afternoon AMD announced the availability of the HIP SDK for Microsoft Windows as a portion of their ROCm computing platform with support for various professional and consumer GPUs…

Source: Phoronix – AMD Releases HIP SDK For Windows

For over a year Fedora / Red Hat has been planning for major package management changes with DNF5. The hope for months has been to use DNF5 by default for Fedora 39 but that is no longer going to work out… FESCo has decided to reject DNF5 for Fedora 39 and then due to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 branching with Fedora 40, this means DNF5 isn’t expected by default until at least Fedora 41 in late 2024…

Source: Phoronix – DNF5 Isn’t Ready For Fedora 39 – Now Delayed To Fedora 41

FreeBSD developers have published their Q2-2023 status report where they outlined various technical milestones and software accomplishments for this leading BSD operating system…

Source: Phoronix – FreeBSD Working On Support For LinuxBoot, Going From 256 To 1024 CPU Core Limit

Going along with Intel adding Lunar Lake and Arrow Lake support to the GCC compiler, Intel has also now contributed the new ISA extensions for these future processors to the GNU Assembler “Gas” support as part of their early compiler toolchain enablement…

Source: Phoronix – GNU Assembler Adds Support For Intel’s 2024~2025 ISA Extensions

Earlier this month Canonical asserted control over the LXD project. As another step in tightening up control over this container management extension for Linux Containers (LXC) is now apparently limiting LXD maintainership rights to only Canonical employees…

Source: Phoronix – LXD Maintainership Being Limited To Canonical Employees

Following the recent KDE Akademy developer conference, prominent KDE developer Nate Graham has provided more insight into some of the features being removed with the in-development Plasma 6 desktop…

Source: Phoronix – Some Of The Features You Will Find Removed With KDE Plasma 6

GNOME 46 or later will likely be seeing work to overhaul the default window management behavior of the desktop…

Source: Phoronix – GNOME Developers Working To Rethink Their Window Management Approach

Released back in April was GCC 13.1 as the first stable release in the GCC 13 series that brought Modula-2 language support, more C++23/C23 features, Modula-2 language support, and other new CPU targets supported from Arm to Intel. Debuting today is GCC 13.2 as the first point release in the series to ship dozens of bug fixes…

Source: Phoronix – GCC 13.2 Released With 58+ Bugs Fixed

While this week was the surprise announcement of Intel AVX10 and with that taking the super-set of AVX-512 to both E and P core processors in the future, for next year’s Xeon “Sierra Forest” server processors at up to 144 ocres, it appears they will lack AVX-512/AVX10. Intel’s AVX10 announcement noted initial support with Granite Rapids processors that will debut next year but no mention of the E-core-only Sierra Forest. With the AVX10 only coming to P/E core client processors after Granite Rapids, it would appear the high density Sierra Forest generation will miss out on AVX10/AVX-512 and not appear until Clearwater Forest. Meanwhile with the 128-core AMD EPYC “Bergamo” processors now shipping, there is AVX-512 with the Zen 4C cores. Here are some benchmarks looking at the AVX-512 impact for Bergamo.

Source: Phoronix – The AVX-512 Performance Advantage With AMD EPYC Bergamo

Mold 2.0 is out today as a major update to this high performance linker developed by Rui Ueyama. Mold has consistently shown to outperform GNU’s Gold and LLVM’s LLD linkers while today is making another shift with it now turning to MIT licensing…

Source: Phoronix – Mold 2.0 High Speed Linker Released: Moves From AGPL To MIT License

NVK as the open-source NVIDIA Vulkan driver being developed for Mesa has to this point been developed out-of-tree as it’s been in its early stages, depends upon Nouveau DRM kernel driver improvements, and ultimately isn’t too useful until the Nouveau GSP/re-clocking situation is sorted out upstream. But overnight the merge request was opened to introduce NVK to mainline Mesa…

Source: Phoronix – NVK Merge Request Opened For Landing Open-Source NVIDIA Vulkan Driver In Mesa

There’s been talk of new Radeon RX 7000 series graphics cards this quarter and adding some weight to that is AMD publishing several new firmware files for different intellectual property blocks of IP versions previously not seeing firmware binaries in the linux-firmware.git repository…

Source: Phoronix – New AMDGPU Firmware Published For Upcoming Radeon GPUs

Thanks to work carried out by Sony engineers and then offered for upstream, over the past few weeks support for a unified LTO bitcode front-end has materialized within the LLVM codebase…

Source: Phoronix – Unified LTO Bitcode Front-End Comes Together For LLVM

For a few years now Canonical has partnered with Intel to offer Ubuntu images optimized for their hardware like with IoT initiatives while the latest now are new Ubuntu real-time images optimized for Intel Core usage…

Source: Phoronix – Canonical Rolls Out Real-Time Ubuntu Optimized For Intel Core CPUs

Two weeks ago a bug report was opened for Mesa that when using Radeon RX 7900 XT or Radeon Pro WX 9100 graphics, Blender’s Eevee shader node trees are unusably slow. A fix has now been merged in reducing that shader compilation time from around 251 seconds to now getting done in just about 9 seconds…

Source: Phoronix – AMD Linux Graphics No Longer Unusable For Blender Developers: 251 To 9 Seconds Speed-Up

Just days after covering a recent ~10% speed-up for the Intel Arc Graphics on Linux, another optimization has landed in Mesa 23.3-devel for further enhancing Intel’s latest graphics wares with their open-source driver stack.

Source: Phoronix – Intel Scores Another Nice Arc Graphics Boost On Linux For Summer 2023

For processors supporting CPU performance boosting with higher performance states available beyond the base states, Linux allows toggling the boosting on a per-CPU basis. However, a new patch proposed this week would allow per-policy performance boosting where capable…

Source: Phoronix – Per-Policy CPU Performance Boosting Proposed For Linux

As part of AMD’s recent Linux graphics driver development approach of enabling new GPU support gradually on a IP block-by-block basis rather than big monolithic patch series marked by colorful fishy codenames, it’s worked out well for getting new hardware support rolling into the kernel early and without revealing any combined details on yet-to-be-released graphics processors. This week has seen some new IP block patches surface…

Source: Phoronix – AMD Begins Rolling Out Driver Patches For Next-Gen GPU IP Blocks