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Experimental Patch Brings Very Primitive AMD Instinct MI300 Support To GCC Compiler

With AMD continuing to be focused on their AMDGPU LLVM compiler back-end for their GPU compiler needs from compute to graphics shaders, the AMD GPU/accelerator hardware support within the GNU Compiler Collection "GCC" has long taken a backseat and left to third-party firms to implement. Posted today was an experimental patch providing very early support…
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Experimental Patch Brings Very Primitive AMD Instinct MI300 Support To GCC Compiler

With AMD continuing to be focused on their AMDGPU LLVM compiler back-end for their GPU compiler needs from compute to graphics shaders, the AMD GPU/accelerator hardware support within the GNU Compiler Collection 'GCC' has long taken a backseat and le…
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Linux 6.15 Delivering Some Performance Gains On AMD EPYC For AI, HPC & Databases

The Linux 6.15 kernel cycle started off a bit rough with a heavy hitting performance regression spotted and then fixed but to only then discover another Linux 6.15 performance regression affecting modern AMD CPUs. Fortunately those issues were cleared out in time for the recent Linux 6.15 stable release. Linux 6.15 stable is looking good especially on 5th …
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Linux 6.15 Delivering Some Performance Gains On AMD EPYC For AI, HPC & Databases

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Radxa UFS/eMMC Module Reader and Storage Solution Enables Fast Flashing and Scalable Embedded Storage lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

Radxa UFS/eMMC Module Reader and Storage Solution Enables Fast Flashing and Scalable Embedded Storage

Radxa’s UFS/eMMC Module Reader is a compact USB 3.0 adapter for flashing OS images, accessing firmware, and transferring large files. It supports both eMMC v5.0 and UFS 2.
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Linux 6.15.2 Fixes "Quite Dramatically...Potentially Dangerous" Idle Power Regression

Along with releasing Linux 6.14.11 today to end-of-life the Linux 6.14 kernel series, Greg Kroah-Hartman released Linux 6.15.2 as the newest stable point release. There is a notable fix here for the CPU idle power regressing on some systems since moving to Linux 6.15...
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Linux 6.15.2 Fixes "Quite Dramatically...Potentially Dangerous" Idle Power Regression

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AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT Linux GPU Compute Performance

Following last week's AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT Linux graphics/gaming review for launch day, today's article is providing an initial look at the GPU compute performance for this new RDNA4-powered ~$349 graphics card on Linux with ROCm 6.4.1.
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AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT Linux GPU Compute Performance Review

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Linux's Turbostat Updated For Intel Diamond Rapids & Bartlett Lake lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

Linux's Turbostat Updated For Intel Diamond Rapids & Bartlett Lake

The turbostat utility that lives within the Linux kernel source tree for reporting processor frequency and idle statistics along with other CPU information saw some last minute updates during the Linux 6.16 merge window.
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Canonical Confirms Ubuntu 25.10 Will Drop Support For GNOME On X.Org

In aligning with upstream GNOME 49 expected to ship with X11 support disabled by default, Canonical announced today that the upcoming Ubuntu 25.10 release will also ship without support for running the GNOME desktop on X11...
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Canonical Confirms Ubuntu 25.10 Will Drop Support For GNOME On X.Org

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Raspberry Pi RP1 PCI Device Support On Path For Linux 6.17 Upstreaming

Going back to last year there have been patches worked on by SUSE for upstreaming Raspberry Pi's RP1 PCI device support. It looks like for the Linux 6.17 kernel later this year that work will finally be upstreamed...
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Raspberry Pi RP1 PCI Device Support On Path For Linux 6.17 Upstreaming

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AMD Linux Patches Aim To Improve S5 Power Consumption

An ongoing area of work for AMD's Linux client team is on enhancing the power management and overall power savings/efficiency support for Ryzen platforms on Linux. An updated patch series was posted on Monday for making the system S5 power state handling more ideal when powering off the system...
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AMD Linux Patches Aim To Improve S5 Power Consumption

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IO_uring Shows Promising Potential For Linux Accelerator Drivers

Last year there was some ideas raised around potentially making use of the Linux kernel's IO_uring functionality for graphics drivers to help with better performance and synchronization. It turns out Qualcomm engineers have recently been exploring IO_uring use for the DRM accelerator drivers with very promising results on their Cloud AI hardware in seeing around 50% spee…
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IO_uring Shows Promising Potential For Linux Accelerator Drivers

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ROC-RK3506J-CC Board Integrates RK3506J and Dual LAN Support lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

ROC-RK3506J-CC Board Integrates RK3506J and Dual LAN Support ROC-RK3506J-CC Board Integrates RK3506J and Dual LAN Support

The ROC-RK3506J-CC is a compact single-board computer based on Rockchip’s RK3506J processor. Designed for embedded systems with real-time demands, it supports a wide range of I/O and OS options and is available in both industrial and commercial varia…
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RADV Radeon Vulkan Driver Merges Support For VP9 Video Decoding

Following the release of Vulkan 1.4.317 back on Friday that brought the long-awaited VK_KHR_video_decode_vp9 extension for VP9 codec support for Vulkan Video, the Mesa RADV driver is now the first prominent open-source Vulkan driver merging support for VP9 decode...
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RADV Radeon Vulkan Driver Merges Support For VP9 Video Decoding

Following the release of Vulkan 1.4.317 back on Friday that brought the long-awaited VK_KHR_video_decode_vp9 extension for VP9 codec support for Vulkan Video, the Mesa RADV driver is now the first prominent open-source Vulkan driver merging support f…
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FreeBSD Quest Continues For Better Laptop Support With Better WiFi, GPU Drivers & PM

Going on since last year has been an effort to improve FreeBSD laptop support with backing by Dell, AMD, Framework Computer, Netflix, and others. This has focused on better WiFi driver support, enhancing power management, and other improvements for modern laptops. That work has been continuing on all fronts for improving the FreeBSD laptop user experie…
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FreeBSD Quest Continues For Better Laptop Support With Better WiFi, GPU Drivers & PM

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Linux 6.16 Features From NVIDIA Blackwell To Performance Improvements & Intel APX lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

Linux 6.16 Features From NVIDIA Blackwell To Performance Improvements & Intel APX

Now that the Linux 6.16 kernel merge window closed this weekend, here is a convenient recap of all the interesting features coming in this next kernel release due out as stable around the end of July. Among the many features introduced with Linux 6.
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AMD EPYC 4345P 8-Core CPU Performance

Last month with the launch of the AMD EPYC 4005 "Grado" series for entry-level Zen 5 servers we ran benchmarks of the AMD EPYC 4565P and EPYC 4585PX processors as the top-tier 16-core CPUs. They delivered an excellent combination of performance, power efficiency, and most of all value for those looking to assemble an AM5-based budget-oriented server in 2025 and beyond. Those processors destroyed the Intel Xeon…
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AMD EPYC 4345P 8-Core CPU Performance Review

Last month with the launch of the AMD EPYC 4005 'Grado' series for entry-level Zen 5 servers we ran benchmarks of the AMD EPYC 4565P and EPYC 4585PX processors as the top-tier 16-core CPUs.
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Linux 6.16 Features From NVIDIA Blackwell To Performance Improvements & Intel APX

Now that the Linux 6.16 kernel merge window closed this weekend, here is a convenient recap of all the interesting features coming in this next kernel release due out as stable around the end of July.
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Linux 6.16 Features From NVIDIA Blackwell To Performance Improvements & Intel APX

Now that the Linux 6.16 kernel merge window closed this weekend, here is a convenient recap of all the interesting features coming in this next kernel release due out as stable around the end of July. Among the many features introduced with Linux 6.
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Open-Source Linux Driver Preps For Qualcomm Adreno X1-45 GPU Support

When it comes to the Qualcomm Snapdragon X laptops on Linux it's been primarily focused on the Snapdragon X Elite support with the X Plus SoC support not being as well off yet. But recently there has been more patches surfacing around the Snapdragon X Plus support, including the Adreno X1-45 GPU used by that lower-tier SoC...
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Open-Source Linux Driver Preps For Qualcomm Adreno X1-45 GPU Support

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