The uutils project continues advancing as a modern, drop-in replacement to the GNU Coreutils utilities that is written in the Rust programming language…

Source: Phoronix – uutils 0.0.20 Improves GNU Coreutils Compatibility For This Rust-Written Replacement

Imagination Technologies today published their fourth iteration of their in-development PowerVR DRM kernel graphics driver targeting their Rogue architecture and future graphics IP. This open-source kernel driver ultimately will go along with their PowerVR Vulkan driver they continue developing within the Mesa code-base…

Source: Phoronix – Imagination Tech Rolls Out Latest PowerVR Rogue DRM Kernel Driver Patches

While IO_uring has been one of the most interesting kernel innovations of recent years and can allow for great speed-ups to async I/O, there have been some security concerns and with the Linux 6.6 kernel it will be easier for Linux administrators to disable it system-wide if so desired…

Source: Phoronix – Linux 6.6 Will Make It Easy To Disable IO_uring System-Wide

AMD Linux engineers are working on extending the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) subsystem used by their GPUs/accelerators to allow up to 128 DRM devices per system…

Source: Phoronix – AMD Working To Allow Linux To Handle Up To 128 DRM Devices Per System

System76 developers working on their Rust-written COSMIC desktop have recently been improving a number of areas of this open-source desktop…

Source: Phoronix – COSMIC Desktop Implements Fractional Scaling, Wallpaper Settings

The GTK toolkit and GLib support for Apple’s macOS may be taking a back-seat to other platforms moving forward and would fall into a “best effort” category…

Source: Phoronix – GTK Support For macOS Potentially Moving Back To “Best Effort” Approach

Yesterday Intel engineers sent out early compiler patches for Lunar Lake and Arrow Lake with adding the new instructions of AVX-VNNI-INT16, SM3, SHA512, and SM4. Today that new instruction support was complemented by a new patch out of Intel for actually adding the new Lunar Lake, Arrow Lake, and Arrow Lake S targets to GCC…

Source: Phoronix – New Intel Lunar Lake / Arrow Lake / Arrow Lake S Patches For GCC

Consulting firm 9elements sent out a set of patches this week to the peci-cputemp and dimmtemp drivers for supporting Intel Sapphire Rapids platforms, including for the up to eight socket configuration capable this generation…

Source: Phoronix – DIMM Temperature Driver & PECI-CPUTemp Updated For Sapphire Rapids

Mesa’s Rusticl OpenGL implementation written in Rust it turns out can already run the Tinygrad open-source software with its OpenCL back-end for running the LLaMA model…

Source: Phoronix – Rusticl Capable Of Running Tinygrad For LLaMA Model

With Red Hat now restricting access to the RHEL source repositories, AlmaLinux and other downstreams that have long provided “community” rebuilds of Red Hat Enterprise Linux with 1:1 compatibility to upstream RHEL have been left sorting out what to do…

Source: Phoronix – AlmaLinux No Longer Aims For 1:1 Compatibility With RHEL, But Will Maintain ABI

Similar to what I have shown with the Ryzen 9 7950X AVX-512 desktop performance and AMD EPYC 9004 series AVX-512 server performance, the new Ryzen 7040 series mobile processors are exhibiting great AVX-512 performance for laptops. In today’s article is a look at the performance impact when toggling AVX-512 capabilities for a Ryzen 7 7840U “Phoenix” SoC compared to toggling AVX-512 with prior Intel Tiger Lake and Ice Lake laptops that offer AVX-512.

Source: Phoronix – AMD Ryzen 7040 Series Shows Great AVX-512 Performance For Laptops / Mobile / Edge

Intel’s Linux software engineers understand the annual GCC compiler release cadence well and acknowledge the importance of having tuned compiler support available at launch. Intel for years has tended to get their new CPU support and new ISA features upstreamed into GCC as well as LLVM/Clang well ahead of product launch so that by the time their new consumer and server CPUs are shipping, there tends to be support within compilers just not at their stable versions but already found in the likes of Ubuntu. With that said, today Intel engineers posted initial compiler patches for Lunar Lake and Arrow Lake processors…

Source: Phoronix – Intel Sends Out Initial Compiler Patches For Lunar Lake & Arrow Lake

While less than one week has passed since the Linux 6.5 merge window ended and 6.5-rc1 being issued, there is already the first set of drm-misc-next changes submitted to DRM-Next of early open-source graphics/display driver changes geared for Linux 6.6 later this year…

Source: Phoronix – Open-Source Graphics Driver Updates Begin Queuing For Linux 6.6

Mesa 23.2 feature development is now over with the code having been branched and the first release candidate tagged for what will be this quarter’s stable release series…

Source: Phoronix – Mesa 23.2 Feature Development Concludes With Numerous New Vulkan Extensions

Intel this morning released their open-source Compute Runtime 23.22.26516.18 as their newest monthly update to this open-source compute stack used on Linux for OpenCL and oneAPI Level Zero usage…

Source: Phoronix – Intel Compute Runtime 23.22.26516.18 Is A Big Update With New Level Zero APIs

Last week we began seeing AMD engineers post Linux patches for “Family 26” (1Ah) CPU enablement that is more than likely for Zen 5 processors. This week the AMD “1Ah” work has carried forward with new patches having been merged into the Linux 6.5 kernel…

Source: Phoronix – Linux 6.5 Adds In Some Next-Gen CPU Enablement For AMD PMF (Zen 5)

Now that the Linux 6.5 merge window ended this past weekend, here is the usual Phoronix overview that lists all the prominent new features and changes coming for this next version.

Source: Phoronix – Linux 6.5 Features From USB4 v2 To More WiFi 7, Unaccepted Memory, Scope-Based Resource Management

Last month AMD Linux kernel driver patches revealed a new feature called FreeSync Panel Replay that is basically an improvement over Panel Self Refresh (PSR) for laptop displays. That code didn’t make it for the recently-closed v6.5 merge window but this week AMD engineers did post a second iteration of the patches…

Source: Phoronix – AMD Updates FreeSync Panel Replay Support For Linux

AMD has made available the FidelityFX SDK solution available via GPUOpen as their easy-to-integrate offering for FidelityFX technologies…

Source: Phoronix – AMD FidelityFX SDK 1.0 Published On GPUOpen

While the Linux 6.5 kernel merge window just ended days ago and there still is two months to go until that stable release, already the lead developer of the Bcachefs file-system is working to get the code merged for Linux 6.6…

Source: Phoronix – Bcachefs File-System Plans To Try Again To Land In Linux 6.6