Ted Ts’o has submitted all the EXT4 feature changes for the Linux 6.5 merge window. EXT4 this round is seeing various clean-ups, bug fixes, and other enhancements but there is one performance optimization worth calling attention to…

Source: Phoronix – EXT4 With Linux 6.5 Will See Much Faster Parallel Direct I/O Overwrite Performance

The in-development Linux 6.5 kernel is shifting to initializing the x86 floating-point unit (FPU) initialization later in the boot process as part of a broader effort for trying to clean-up the Linux kernel boot process at least on x86/x86_64 systems…

Source: Phoronix – Linux 6.5 Delays x86 FPU Initialization As Part Of Cleaning Up The Kernel Boot Process

“Some people relax with a nice drink by the pool, I relax by playing around with inline [Assembly code],” as a nice quote of the day as Linus Torvalds explained after he took on improving upon a performance optimization patch that was proposed for the ongoing Linux 6.5 merge window…

Source: Phoronix – Linus Torvalds Takes On A Performance Patch: “I Relax By Playing With Inline Assembly”

The power management and ACPI feature changes have been merged for the in-development Linux 6.5 kernel. As usual, it’s most interesting on the Intel and AMD fronts with the power management changes for this kernel that will be released as stable in August…

Source: Phoronix – Linux 6.5 Now Defaults To AMD P-State “Active” EPP For Modern Ryzen Systems

Blender 3.6 is out today as the latest exciting update for this open-source, cross-platform 3D modeling software. Exciting with Blender 3.6 is adding Intel hardware ray-tracing support when making use of Arc Graphics. AMD graphics cards on Windows can also enjoy HIP ray-tracing but sadly isn’t supported yet for Linux…

Source: Phoronix – Blender 3.6 Released With Intel Arc Graphics Ray-Tracing, AMD HIP RT On Windows

Ingo Molnar submitted today the scheduler updates destined for the Linux 6.5 kernel. Most noticeable with the CPU scheduler changes are enhancing SMP (Hyper Threading) load balancing for Intel Core CPUs of a hybrid design with a mix of P and E cores…

Source: Phoronix – Linux 6.5 To Enhance Load Balancing For Intel Hybrid CPUs

Processing the vmlinux.o object with objtool has been the most memory intensive step of the Linux kernel build process. Prior patches have already worked to reduce this objtool memory use while compiling the Linux kernel and a big patch series now set for Linux 6.5 is set to sharply reduce the maximum heap use…

Source: Phoronix – Building A Full Linux Debug Kernel Optimized From 53GB To 25GB Heap Use

Bcachefs hopes to finally merge in Linux 6.5 while for those wanting a mature Linux file-system with all the bells and whistles, Btrfs is a good candidate worth considering. With Linux 6.5 there is a continuation of the recent Btrfs trend around performance improvements…

Source: Phoronix – Btrfs In Linux 6.5 May Bring A Cumulative Performance Improvement

ReactOS is the open-source OS that’s striving for Microsoft Windows software and driver binary compatibility that is 25 years in the making. ReactOS has been making steady progress while still considered in alpha form. Most of the ReactOS successes and user tinkering has been with the 32-bit build of the OS while they have been making steady progress recently on the x86_64 (x64) port…

Source: Phoronix – ReactOS “Open-Source Windows” Steadily Improving x64 Port

In addition to yesterday bringing EDAC support for AMD Zen 4 client CPUs, the set of RAS “Reliability, Availability and Serviceability” updates for the Linux 6.5 kernel have separately brought initial GPU/accelerator support…

Source: Phoronix – AMD EDAC/RAS Code Adds GPU/Accelerator Support In Linux 6.5

The work originating in late 2021 for bringing up secondary CPU cores in parallel at boot-time to help shorten boot/reboot times for large core count servers has finally landed with the in-development Linux 6.5 kernel…

Source: Phoronix – Parallel CPU Bringup Lands For Linux 6.5 To Shorten Boot/Reboot Time On Large Servers

The ARM64 (AArch64) architecture code has seen some clean-ups and support for new Arm ISA features with the in-development Linux 6.5 kernel…

Source: Phoronix – Linux 6.5 On AArch64 Sees New Extensions, KPTI Cleanup

If your dream is to work for Valve Software, getting experienced with the open-source Linux graphics driver development niche seems to be a decent pathway. Besides Valve, all the big hardware companies are routinely looking for more Linux graphics driver developers as well…

Source: Phoronix – Valve Contracts Another Prominent Open-Source Linux Graphics Driver Developer

Capping off an exciting first day of the Linux 6.5 merge window is a pull request seeking to land the long-in-development Bcachefs file-system into this next kernel version…

Source: Phoronix – Bcachefs File-System Pull Request Submitted For Linux 6.5

Upsetting many in the open-source community was Red Hat’s announcement last week that they would begin limiting access to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux sources by putting them behind the Red Hat Customer Portal and publicly would be limited to the CentOS Stream sources. In turn this causes problems for free-of-cost derivatives like AlmaLinux moving forward. Red Hat today issued another blog post trying to address some of the criticism…

Source: Phoronix – Red Hat Tries To Address Criticism Over Their Source Repository Changes

Faith Ekstrand today published a blog post outlining recent efforts around NVK, the open-source Vulkan driver for NVIDIA hardware developed namely by the Nouveau development community. Some recent highlights include:..

Source: Phoronix – NVK Open-Source NVIDIA Vulkan Driver Progresses On Running Some Games

For the past year and a half Red Hat engineers have been developing a new web-based UI for their Anaconda OS installer and with the Fedora Workstation 39 release later this year they are looking at possibly switching to it by default…

Source: Phoronix – Fedora Workstation 39 Eyes Switch To Anaconda WebUI For Installations

Mesa’s RADV Radeon Vulkan driver has merged support for VK_EXT_fragment_shader_interlock, which is a highly sought after extension by game emulators and also important for DirectX over Vulkan layering efforts and more…

Source: Phoronix – RADV Lands Fragment Shader Interlock Support – Useful For Emulators, DXVK & VKD3D

Back in April was the release of Slint 1.0 for this open-source, Rust-focused graphical toolkit formerly known as SixtyFPS. Today marks the release of Slint 1.1 as the first significant feature update after crossing the 1.0 milestone…

Source: Phoronix – Slint 1.1 Released For This Rust-Tailored GUI Toolkit, New Royalty-Free License

The Error Detection And Correction (EDAC) subsystem updates have been submitted today on this first day of the Linux 6.5 merge window. Headlining the EDAC changes this cycle is bringing AMD Zen 4 client support…

Source: Phoronix – AMD Ryzen 7000 Series EDAC Support Submitted For Linux 6.5