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NVIDIA SHIELD Controller Driver Coming With Linux 6.5
NVIDIA SHIELD Controller Driver Coming With Linux 6.5
26 Minutes Ago - NVIDIA - NVIDIA SHIELD HID - Add A Comment

Five years after NVIDIA launched their SHIELD "Thunderstrike" gaming controller, they've recently been working on upstreaming support for this controller -- and other possible NVIDIA Shield peripherals -- via a new Linux kernel driver. This new driver is now set to be merged for Linux 6.5.

9 June

Linux 6.5 To Add HuC Loading Support For Intel Meteor Lake
Linux 6.5 To Add HuC Loading Support For Intel Meteor Lake
9 June 03:24 PM EDT - Intel - HuC On Meteor Lake - Add A Comment

In addition to the drm-intel-next pull earlier this week that brought more Meteor Lake graphics on Linux and VRR eDP support among other changes set for Linux 6.5, on Thursday a new batch of drm-intel-gt-next code was submitted to DRM-Next ahead of this next kernel cycle.

Intel Updates Cluster Scheduling Linux Patches For Hybrid CPUs
Intel Updates Cluster Scheduling Linux Patches For Hybrid CPUs
9 June 12:36 PM EDT - Intel - Cluster Scheduling - 3 Comments

Intel engineers have been working on new cluster scheduling code for the Linux kernel to better help with process scheduling for their modern hybrid processors. An updated version of these patches have now been posted for attempting to help with the Linux performance of Alder Lake CPUs and newer.

Google's Patches To Speed-Up Over-Committed Linux Guest VMs Are Looking Great
Google's Patches To Speed-Up Over-Committed Linux Guest VMs Are Looking Great
9 June 11:25 AM EDT - Virtualization - Faster VM Performance - 9 Comments

Google engineers have been working on Linux patches to improve the guest VM performance when the host encounters memory pressure or have over-committed too many guests. Similar patches already are used on Chrome OS and Google has been working to upstream the functionality under the mainline Linux kernel and have now provided some reference benchmark results.

8 June

Intel Xeon Ice Lake vs. AMD EPYC Milan Server Performance, Efficiency & Value In 2023
Intel Xeon Ice Lake vs. AMD EPYC Milan Server Performance, Efficiency & Value In 2023
8 June 05:00 PM EDT - Processors - 8 Comments

While AMD 4th Gen EPYC "Genoa" and Intel 4th Gen Xeon Scalable "Sapphire Rapids" processors launched a few months ago, for those not yet able to obtain the new processors/platforms, prefer waiting for DDR5 memory prices to recede further, don't necessarily need the latest bells and whistles found with these new server processors, or just looking to maximize value, 3rd Gen AMD EPYC Milan and Intel Xeon Scalable Ice Lake processors are readily available and still seeing plenty of new deployments in data centers throughout the world. In this article is a fresh look at the AMD Milan vs. Intel Ice Lake server performance, power efficiency, and performance-per-dollar across a range of processors.

Intel's Habana Gaudi 2 Accelerator Linux Driver In Good Shape
Intel's Habana Gaudi 2 Accelerator Linux Driver In Good Shape
8 June 10:25 AM EDT - Intel - Habana Labs Gaudi 2 - 1 Comment

Since June of last year shortly after Intel announced the Gaudi 2 AI accelerator they began posting the open-source driver patches for Gaudi 2 with the mainline Habana Labs driver. That support landed in Linux 6.0 and since then they've continued refining that support for this new processor support for deep learning training and inference workloads.

FFmpeg Adds Support For Animated JPEG-XL
FFmpeg Adds Support For Animated JPEG-XL
8 June 06:37 AM EDT - Multimedia - Animated JPEG-XL - 29 Comments

In addition to Apple revealing this week support is coming for the JPEG-XL image format in their Safari web browser, another step forward for this royalty-free image codec is FFmpeg now able to decode animated JPEG-XL files.

7 June

Linux 6.5 VirtIO GPU DRM Driver Adding Sync Object uAPI For Vulkan
Linux 6.5 VirtIO GPU DRM Driver Adding Sync Object uAPI For Vulkan
7 June 06:35 AM EDT - Virtualization - VirtIO Sync Objects - 2 Comments

Queued via drm-misc-next and now on its way to DRM-Next ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.5 cycle is support in the VirtIO GPU DRM driver for the synchronization object user-space API. This is important for Vulkan and is working with the Venus/Virgl driver context as well as Intel/AMDGPU/Freedreno native contexts too.

OpenZFS 2.1.12 Released With Linux 6.3 Compatibility
OpenZFS 2.1.12 Released With Linux 6.3 Compatibility
7 June 05:48 AM EDT - Linux Storage - OpenZFS 2.1.12 - 12 Comments

OpenZFS 2.1.12 is now available as the latest version of this out-of-tree ZFS file-system kernel driver that works on Linux now with the latest 6.3 kernel stable series all the way back to the v3.10 kernel. Plus OpenZFS 2.1.12 also works on FreeBSD 12.2 and newer.

6 June

RADV+Zink vs. RadeonSI OpenGL Performance On Mesa 23.2-devel
6 June 12:20 PM EDT - Display Drivers - 48 Comments

It's been a while since last looking at the Zink performance for this OpenGL implementation built atop the Vulkan APIs, but with all of the Zink progress by Valve's Mike Blumenkrantz and others, here is a fresh round of testing. This article is seeing how for Mesa Git the performance of Zink on the RADV Vulkan driver compares to that of the native RadeonSI driver while testing with both the Radeon RX 7600 and RX 7900 XTX graphics cards.

openSUSE Leap 15.6 Now Planned To Provide More Time For ALP
6 June 09:30 AM EDT - SUSE - openSUSE Leap 15.6 - 18 Comments

The soon-to-be-released openSUSE Leap 15.5 was going to be the last of the openSUSE Leap 15 series, but now openSUSE/SUSE has decided there will be an openSUSE Leap 15.6 release to allow additional time for their Adaptable Linux Platform (ALP) to be developed.

More AMD Heterogeneous System Patches Queued Ahead Of Linux 6.5
6 June 06:36 AM EDT - AMD - AMD Heterogeneous System - Add A Comment

A few new AMD heterogeneous system patches have been queued via TIP.git ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.5 kernel merge window. These newest AMD Linux patches are focused on proper heterogeneous system enumeration for AMD data center systems sporting the Instinct MI200 and newer accelerators.

5 June

Phoronix.com Turns 19 Years Old For Covering Linux Hardware, Open-Source News
5 June 05:00 PM EDT - Phoronix - Phoronix Turns 19 - 39 Comments

Today marks nineteen years since I started Phoronix.com for covering the Linux hardware space. It's been a wild ride from the days of 56K modems, graphics driver pains, and having to use NDISWrapper for WiFi device driver support on Linux, among many other Linux hardware pains in the early days. These days the open-source GPU driver scene is far better off, Linux hardware support overall is great, companies continue investing massively into Linux/open-source thanks to the success in the server space over the past two decades, and the Steam Deck has proven to be one of the most interesting Linux-powered consumer devices in recent years.

Intel's Codeplay Announces oneAPI Construction Kit For Bringing SYCL To New Hardware
5 June 09:50 AM EDT - Intel - oneAPI Construction Kit - 1 Comment

Codeplay Software, which was acquired by Intel last June, has an exciting announcement to make today in the form of the oneAPI Construction Kit. This open-source project aims to help ease bringing up SYCL on new processor/accelerator architectures, particularly around HPC and AI. The oneAPI Construction Kit also has a reference implementation for RISC-V.

MIDI 2.0 Driver Support Coming With Linux 6.5
5 June 06:28 AM EDT - Multimedia - MIDI 2.0 - Add A Comment

Last month Linux's sound subsystem maintainer Takashi Iwai published a set of Linux driver patches for MIDI 2.0 support for the USB Audio and Raw MIDI drivers. That roughly six thousand lines of new code for the MIDI 2.0 driver coverage is now expected to be mainlined with the upcoming Linux 6.5 cycle.

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