Clear Linux Preparing New Kernel Options

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Clear Linux Preparing New Kernel Options

Intel's Clear Linux platform is preparing some new alternative kernel options and they are quite interesting from a testing/benchmarking perspective...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Clear-Linux-New-Kernel-Options

[tildearrow]

Typo:

around a kernel-native-current and kernek-mainline-vanilla options.

[Baguy]

I'd love to see some ryzen benchmarks with this kernel testing. Very intriguing.

[skeevy420]

An FYI for the Arch and Manjaro users, you can find these patches and more included in Tk-Glitch's kernels.

[milkylainen]

Are these patches to be mainlined or have they been rejected? I see some stuff that is quite dubious.

[Guest]

Are these patches to be mainlined or have they been rejected? I see some stuff that is quite dubious.

Considering that clear targets a quite narrow set of hardware, I wouldn't expect anyone to bother with mainlining these patches.

[Kjell]

An FYI for the Arch and Manjaro users, you can find these patches and more included in Tk-Glitch's kernels.

This is really interesting, do you know if this or any different project offers Clear Linux optimizations/patches for Debian?

[Alliancemd]

I'd love to see some ryzen benchmarks with this kernel testing. Very intriguing.

Their kernel config is hostile towards AMD - it keeps the support for non-Intel processors but they explicitly remove AMD bits(like the microcode: https://github.com/clearlinux-pkgs/l...c6/config#L354 ).
So, it will work on Ryzen, but not to its potential.
They removed: AMD Microcode, AMD Numa support(will affect the performance of Threadripper and EPYC), AMD encryption, AMD IOMMU, etc...

[ermo]

Their kernel config is hostile towards AMD - it keeps the support for non-Intel processors but they explicitly remove AMD bits(like the microcode: https://github.com/clearlinux-pkgs/l...c6/config#L354 ).
So, it will work on Ryzen, but not to its potential.
They removed: AMD Microcode, AMD Numa support(will affect the performance of Threadripper and EPYC), AMD encryption, AMD IOMMU, etc...

One could argue that AMD might do well to be a bit cheeky and release a Clear-Linux derived spin that just changes the compiler options to favour AMD Ryzen-based CPUs...

[skeevy420]

This is really interesting, do you know if this or any different project offers Clear Linux optimizations/patches for Debian?

Off the top of my head, I don't. If you have some decent bash-fu it shouldn't be too difficult to go down the PKGBUILD, apply the patches manually, and compile it.

Hopefully someone else will know a decent way to convert a PKGBUILD over to a Debian source package.