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RADV Seeing Early Experimenting With Vulkan Video Capabilities
As another "first on RADV" for this Mesa Radeon Vulkan open-source driver compared to AMD's official Vulkan Linux driver options, there is an early branch providing primitive, experimental support for Vulkan Video acceleration...
Linux 5.16 Drops Support For MIPS Netlogic SoCs
The Linux 5.16 kernel is doing away with hardware support for the MIPS-based Netlogic Microsystems SoCs, the network processors developed prior to being acquired by Broadcom a decade ago...
AMDVLK 2021.Q4.1 Released As First Code Drop In Over A Month
AMD traditionally has been updating its AMDVLK official open-source Vulkan driver sources publicly on a (bi)weekly basis, but that went off the wagon recently with not seeing any updates since the end of September. That changed this morning with the publishing of AMDVLK 2021.Q4.1...
Wayland 1.20 Alpha Released With Upstreamed FreeBSD Support, Autotools Nuked
With the plans to release Wayland 1.20 before Christmas, Wayland 1.20 Alpha was released on Thursday to kick off the start of the release process...
Intel + Microsoft Bring oneAPI L0 & OpenCL To WSL2 With Open-Source Stack + DXGKRNL
While Intel Alder Lake is dominating today's news cycle, Intel and Microsoft also announced today that they have brought oneAPI Level Zero and Intel OpenCL support to Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL2) while employing Intel graphics hardware acceleration...
More Linux Performance Benchmark Data For Alder Lake, Comparison Data Points
With the embargo lifted following this morning's Intel Core i5 12600K + Core i9 12900K Linux review, I've begun uploading more public test data to OpenBenchmarking.org and making my earlier test results public. With that and initial data flowing in from others in the community, here is some more data to poke through if interested in Alder Lake on Linux...
Microsoft Adds Linux Support To Endpoint Manager
Microsoft's latest surprise is adding native Linux support to their Endpoint Manager software...
Intel Core i5 12600K / Core i9 12900K "Alder Lake" Linux Performance
With the Intel 12th Gen Core processors shipping today along with the new line-up of Z690 motherboards, the review embargo lifts for talking about these Intel "Alder Lake" processors. While by now you've likely heard a lot about Intel Alder Lake on Windows and various leaked benchmarks with Windows 11, how does these processors with the new hybrid architecture work and perform on Linux? Here are the initial benchmarks and support information for Intel's Core i5 12600K and Core i9 12900K processors under Ubuntu Linux.
XWayland Lands Another Performance Fix
Red Hat engineer Michel Dänzer has uncovered and addressed another performance shortcoming within X.Org's XWayland code...
Facebook's BOLT Nearing Mainline LLVM For Optimizing Binaries
Facebook's BOLT project for optimizing the performance out of compiled binaries is nearing the point of being added to LLVM's official source tree with its mono repository...
Linux 5.16 Arm SoC Changes Bring-Up The Snapdragon 690, Other Hardware
All of the Arm SoC/platform changes were merged on Wednesday evening for the Linux 5.16 kernel cycle...
Mesa 21.3-rc4 Release Led By Many Zink Fixes
Mesa 21.3 as the final feature release for this collection of open-source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers isn't yet ready to go as some blocker bugs persist, but available now is the fourth weekly release candidate...
Linux 5.16's Smorgasbord Of Power Management Changes Land
Sent in on Tuesday and since merged to the mainline Linux 5.16 code-base were the power management updates and accompanying ACPI and thermal changes...
Linux 5.16 Sound Ready To Play On AMD VanGogh + Yellow Carp, Continues USB Low-Latency
The Linux sound subsystem is seeing some useful and significant additions with the Linux 5.16 kernel...
Microsoft Publishes October 2021 Update For Its Linux Distribution
Microsoft today released its monthly update to CBL-Mariner, its internal Linux distribution that is used for a variety of purposes at the Windows company...
AMD Radeon Graphics Driver "AMDGPU" Ported To DragonFlyBSD
The "AMDGPU" kernel graphics driver has been ported and pulled into the DragonFlyBSD operating system...
SELinux/LSM/Smack Controls + Auditing For IO_uring Comes With Linux 5.16
In addition to IO_uring improvements in Linux 5.16 itself, the Security Enhanced Linux "SELinux" patches for this new kernel cycle bring controls and auditing around IO_uring...
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 Beta Released
Red Hat today announced the first public beta of the upcoming Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0...
Ubuntu Continues Work On Flutter+Dart Written Firmware-Updater Utility
Along with the work-in-progress new Ubuntu desktop installer, another GUI project being pursued by Canonical going into the Ubuntu 22.04 LTS cycle is the "firmware-updater" as a firmware updating GUI solution written in the Flutter toolkit and Dart...
Linux 5.16 Graphics Drivers: Alder Lake S Is Stable, Initial DG2, AMD DP 2.0 + USB4
All of the DRM (Direct Rendering Manager) kernel graphics/display driver updates were submitted and already merged for the very exciting Linux 5.16 kernel cycle. There is a lot of good stuff this round especially when it comes to the open-source Intel and AMD Radeon drivers...
Steam Beta Adds VA-API Acceleration For Remote Play
For those enjoying Steam Remote Play in-home streaming functionality, the latest Steam client beta now supports making use of the Video Acceleration API for encoding...
More ASRock & ASUS Motherboards Will Have Working Sensors With Linux 5.16
The hardware monitoring "HWMON" subsystem updates have landed in the Linux 5.16 kernel and with this comes sensor support for some additional ASRock and ASUS motherboards...
Intel DG2/Alchemist Soon To See Big Performance Boost With Mesa Optimizations
A set of patches were posted this past week by Intel open-source driver engineer Francisco Jerez with pixel pipeline optimizations that help all DG2/Alchemist platforms with double digit percentage improvements...
EROFS With LZMA/MicroLZMA, XFS Footprint Improvements Sent In For Linux 5.16
Along with the Btrfs updates, other Linux file-systems have also been sending in their improvements destined for the Linux 5.16 kernel...
A Number Of System76 Laptop Coreboot Ports Reach Mainline
A number of System76 laptops saw their Coreboot open-source firmware ports merged to the mainline code-base today...
Linux Can Boot On Apple's M1 Pro But More Work Remains
Last month Apple announced the M1 Pro and M1 Max SoCs while already the very latest Linux patches originally written for the Apple M1 that launched last year paired with some small changes is allowing the open-source platform to boot on the M1 Pro MacBook...
Microsoft Begins Landing Hyper-V Isolation VM Support In Linux 5.16
Microsoft has submitted their set of Hyper-V hypervisor updates today for the Linux 5.16 merge window. This time around it's noteworthy with the initial enablement work around Hyper-V "Isolation VM" support...
Cluster-Aware Scheduling Lands In Linux 5.16
The "sched/core" scheduler updates landed on Monday into the Linux 5.16 kernel. Notable this pull request is the cluster-aware scheduling support...
Fedora Linux 35 Released As Another Exciting, Feature-Packed Update
Fedora 35 is now officially available today as the latest major release of this Linux distribution developed by Red Hat and the open-source community. Fedora 35 is another very rich feature update at the forefront of Linux innovations from servers to the desktop...
Canonical Begins Offering Ubuntu Images Optimized For Intel CPUs
Canonical has begun publishing Ubuntu install images that are optimized for use on next-generation Intel IoT platforms...
Firefox 94.0 Released With Linux Build Using EGL For Better Performance, Power Savings
Firefox 94.0 is now available and for a change it's quite exciting on the Linux front...
Khronos Prepares ANARI 1.0 API For Scalable 3D Data Visualization
The Khronos Group this morning is rolling out the provisional specification for ANARI 1.0, its newest royalty-free, industry-standard API...
Btrfs With Linux 5.16 Seeing More Performance Optimizations, NVMe ZNS
The Btrfs file-system continues seeing new performance optimizations and other work, thanks in part to the renewed interest around the file-system with Fedora Workstation continuing to use it by default along with openSUSE and other Linux distributions...
Vulkan 1.2.197 Released With Dynamic Rendering Extension
Vulkan 1.2.197 is out with a variety of documentation updates, clarifications to the specification, and other work. Plus there is one new extension this time around...
Linux 5.16 Networking Changes Are Quite Busy From New Drivers To Intel 100G Improvements
Given the wide range of hardware running Linux and especially Linux being dominant in the data center, the networking changes each kernel cycle remain quite vibrant. Linux 5.16 is no exception with the main feature pull sent in on Monday for all the networking updates...
"Ampere-1" GCC Patch Posted For Ampere's Upcoming AArch64 Core Design
While Ampere Altra and Altra Max processors are achieving great success using Arm Neoverse N1 based cores, as shared earlier this year Ampere has begun designing their own custom Arm server CPU cores for slated introduction in 2022. The first GCC compiler patch for that next-gen Ampere CPU was quietly posted on Monday...
Intel AMX Support Lands For Linux 5.16
After going through a number of rounds of patch revisions over the past year, Intel's kernel-side changes for supporting Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX) with next-gen Xeon Scalable "Sapphire Rapids" processors has landed for Linux 5.16!..
Steam On Linux Marketshare Hits New Multi-Year High, AMD Powering ~40% Of Linux Gaming Systems
Back in July Steam on Linux re-crossed the 1.0% marketshare threshold following the announcement of the Steam Deck and continued progress around Steam Play / Proton. The Steam on Linux user-base has continued growing month by month and has hit another high with the numbers published today that cover the month of October...
Radeon ROCm 4.5 Released With HIP Runtime Compilation, Unified Memory Support
AMD today released Radeon Open eCosystem 4.5 (ROCm 4.5) as the latest version to their open-source GPU compute stack for Linux systems. ROCm 4.5 brings with it a number of new features and improvements but one area on the consumer Radeon side will leave some potential users frustrated...
Memory Folios Merged For Linux 5.16
The proposed memory "folios" functionality for Linux 5.16 is happening! This low-level change to the Linux memory management code was merged today for this next kernel...
GCC & LLVM Patches Pending To Fend Off Trojan Source Attacks
Making rounds today are the "Trojan Source" attacks by which text displayed to the end-user/developer doesn't match what is actually being executed. The problem stems from Unicode standards and could lead to malicious code being inadvertently introduced into upstream code-bases that could be overlooked during code review processes, etc. GCC and LLVM/Clang are among the early compilers preparing defenses against Trojan Source style attacks...
Many Block Improvements Land In Linux 5.16 - Multi-Actuator Hard Drive Support
The big set of block changes for Linux 5.16 were merged today with the opening of the new kernel cycle. While the massive I/O optimizations tackled recently has been a main focus, there is also much more to the block subsystem coming with Linux 5.16...
MPV 0.34 Released For Popular Linux Media Player
MPV 0.34 is now available as the newest version of this popular Linux video player that is powered by FFmpeg and forked originally from MPlayer/mplayer2 code...
Linux 5.16 Loosens The Spectre Defaults Around SSBD / STIBP
Linux 5.16 is adjusting its default Spectre mitigation behavior around Spectre V2 for user-space tasks as well as Speculative Store Bypass Disable (SSBD) for Spectre V4 mitigation...
Google Will Now Pay $31,337 To $50,337 For New Linux Kernel Vulnerabilities
Google announced today that now through at least the end of January they will be providing higher payment amounts for security researchers disclosing new vulnerabilities affecting the Linux kernel...
FWUPD 1.7.1 Adds Support For Firmware Updates On More Devices
FWUPD 1.7.1 is out today as the newest release of this leading open-source solution for allowing firmware updates from UEFI motherboards to various peripherals under Linux and other platforms...
Linux 5.15 Is This Year's LTS Kernel
As we approach the end of the calendar year there was some uncertainty whether Linux 5.15 would be this year's Long-Term Support (LTS) kernel or if it would be Linux 5.16 albeit not likely releasing until the start of 2022.....
PHPStan 1.0 Released As Leading PHP Static Analyzer
PHPStan 1.0 was released today as the first stable release for this leading open-source PHP static analysis tool...
FUTEX2's sys_futex_waitv() Sent In For Linux 5.16 To Help Linux Gaming
As expected after first reporting on it a month ago when the FUTEX2 patches were queued up in locking/core, this work with the new sys_futex_waitv() system call for helping the Windows on Linux gaming experience will indeed land for Linux 5.16...
Linux I/O Optimizations, AMD Improvements, NVIDIA GBM Excited Linux Users Last Month
It was an exciting October even amid the ongoing pandemic as at least Linux/open-source enthusiasts were able to enjoy the Ubuntu 21.10 debut, ongoing Linux I/O optimizations many of which are now coming to mainline in 5.16, numerous AMD driver enhancements, NVIDIA's proprietary driver stack finally introducing GBM support, X.Org Server 21.1 released, and much more...
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