Loongson Binary Translation (LBT) support for the Chinese LoongArch CPU architecture is slated for introduction in the upcoming Linux 6.6 cycle. Loongson Binary Translation aims to help speed-up and handle ARM / x86 / MIPS binary translation on LoongArch more efficiently with capable LoongArch processors…

Source: Phoronix – Loongson Binary Translation Slated For Linux 6.6 – Helping MIPS / x86 / ARM On LoongArch

While the EROFS Linux read-only file-system already supports LZ4 and microLZMA support, Zlib DEFLATE support is also being worked on and could be introduced in the next Linux kernel cycle…

Source: Phoronix – EROFS File-System Adding DEFLATE Compression Support

The first beta is out of FreeRDP 3.0, the open-source Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) implementation of that proprietary Microsoft protocol for remote desktop/GUI handling…

Source: Phoronix – FreeRDP 3.0 Beta Brings AAD/AVD Authentication, WebSocket Transport

Along with detailing Advanced Performance Extensions (APX), Intel as effectively a footnote to that also disclosed another exciting addition to find with future Intel CPUs: AVX10. Most notably for consumer use is that AVX10 will enable AVX-512 capabilities across both Performance and Efficient core designs with hybrid processors…

Source: Phoronix – Intel AVX10: Taking AVX-512 With More Features & Supporting It Across P/E Cores

Following Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX) and more recently Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX) for furthering the x86_64 CPU compute potential, Intel has now published initial details on APX: Advanced Performance Extensions…

Source: Phoronix – Intel Details APX – Advanced Performance Extensions

It looks like the updated Family 17h microcode this morning isin relation to a new Zen 2 CPU security vulnerability being disclosed. The Linux kernel has also just received a patch for this “Zenbleed” vulnerability for older AMD CPUs…

Source: Phoronix – Linux Kernel Mitigated For “Zenbleed” Vulnerability Affecting AMD Zen 2 CPUs

Last week in the AMD EPYC 9684X review were many benchmarks looking at how this flagship Genoa-X processor compares to various AMD EPYC and Intel Xeon processors. The EPYC 9684X delivers terrific generational uplift compared to Milan-X, offers significant advantages over the EPYC 9004 Genoa processors thanks to the 1.1GB of L3 cache per CPU that proves very beneficial in HPC and AI workloads, and the 96-core / AVX-512 / 3D V-Cache combination far surpassed the Intel performance in the vast majority of benchmarks. As some follow-up benchmarks, today is looking precisely at the performance difference caused by the 3D V-Cache presence by looking at the EPYC 9684X performance when the 3D V-Cache feature was enabled and then the tests repeated when disabled.

Source: Phoronix – The Performance Impact Of Genoa-X’s 3D V-Cache With The AMD EPYC 9684X

Both new AMD Zen CPU and Radeon GPU microcode/firmware have been published today to the linux-firmware.git tree…

Source: Phoronix – New AMD Zen CPU & Radeon GPU Microcode Land In Linux-Firmware.Git

Qiang Yu continues leading the charge on integrating the ACO compiler back-end into the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver as an optional alternative to the AMDGPU LLVM shader compiler back-end…

Source: Phoronix – RadeonSI + ACO Now Supports Monolithic Merged Shaders

Merged back in 2021 with Linux 5.16 was the FUTEX2 code to help with Linux gaming needs particularly around Steam Play. There were plans to further extend FUTEX2 and now two years later there’s been recent patches working out more enhancements to this interface…

Source: Phoronix – More FUTEX2 Additions Being Worked On For The Linux Kernel

The most popular topic among the emails I received this weekend weren’t of direct technical nature but the number of people pointing out Twitter’s new “X” logo and the similarities to the X.Org logo…

Source: Phoronix – Twitter’s New “X” Logo Is Reminding Plenty Of People Around X.Org

Inkscape 1.3 is now available as the newest feature release ot this open-source software focused on being a vector graphics editor that can rival the likes of Adobe Illustrator…

Source: Phoronix – Inkscape 1.3 Released As Latest Open-Source Software To Compete With Adobe Illustrator

Linus Torvalds just published Linux 6.5-rc3 as the newest weekly test release of the forthcoming Linux 6.5 kernel…

Source: Phoronix – Linux 6.5-rc3 Released – Looking “Pretty Normal”

Within the very latest OpenBSD “current” code is now support for being able to apply AMD CPU microcode updates…

Source: Phoronix – OpenBSD Finally Lands Support For Updating AMD CPU Microcode

MPV 0.36 is out today as the newest version of this open-source media player that was originally forked from the MPlayer/mplayer2 code and leveraging the FFmpeg library…

Source: Phoronix – MPV Player 0.36 Released With Wayland Fractional Scaling, Vulkan Video Decode

Debian 13 “Trixie” has been aiming for official RISC-V support and indeed it will happen: RISC-V has now been promoted to an official Debian CPU architecture…

Source: Phoronix – RISC-V Is Now An Official Debian Architecture

Automatic IBRS is a new feature with AMD Zen 4 processors akin to Intel’s Enhanced IBRS functionality. Linux 6.3 added Auto IBRS support but it turns out when that was being enabled an oversight was made…

Source: Phoronix – It Turns Out Linux Is Supposed To Enable STIBP When Enabling AMD Zen 4’s Auto IBRS

Intel Linux engineer Peter Zijlstra’s EEVDF CPU scheduler code to replace the existing Completely Fair Scheduler “CFS” code looks like it will attempt to land with the upcoming Linux 6.6 merge window…

Source: Phoronix – EEVDF Scheduler May Be Ready For Landing With Linux 6.6

Building off Friday’s release of Wine 8.13, Wine-Staging 8.13 is out today with 504 patches atop that upstream code-base…

Source: Phoronix – Wine-Staging 8.13 Released With D3D12GetInterface Stub

Building off last month’s release of Debian 12.0, Debian 12.1 is out today to ship dozens of bug fixes…

Source: Phoronix – Debian 12.1 Released With Many Bug Fixes