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Linux 6.16 Lands Proper Power Management Fix For Code That Caused Power Regression

Linux 6.15 mistakenly shipped with a nasty power regression for some systems, such as those relying on the "nosmt" option to disable Simultaneous Multi-Threading / Hyper Threading. That idle power regression was fixed for Linux 6.15.2 and Linux 6.16 Git by reverting the troubled patch that introduced the regression. Now merged ahead of Linux 6.16-rc2 is a proper fi…
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Linux 6.16 Lands Proper Power Management Fix For Code That Caused Power Regression

Linux 6.15 mistakenly shipped with a nasty power regression for some systems, such as those relying on the 'nosmt' option to disable Simultaneous Multi-Threading / Hyper Threading
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Linux Kernel API Specification Framework Proposed To Help Stabilize User-Space Interfaces

Sasha Levin just sent out an initial "request for comments" patch series for the Linux kernel in aiming to establish a Kernel API Specification Framework...
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Linux Kernel API Specification Framework Proposed To Help Stabilize User-Space Interfaces

Sasha Levin just sent out an initial 'request for comments' patch series for the Linux kernel in aiming to establish a Kernel API Specification Framework.
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SDL Merges Wayland Pointer Warp Support To Help Native Wayland Gaming

Introduced with this week's Wayland Protocols 1.45 release is adding the Pointer Warp protocol to staging. The SDL hardware/software abstraction library commonly used by cross-platform games was quick to merge support for using the native Pointer Warp protocol on Wayland...
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SDL Merges Wayland Pointer Warp Support To Help Native Wayland Gaming

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Bcachefs Is Now Able To Auto-Fix A Few More Fsck Errors

Another round of Bcachefs file-system fixes were submitted and merged this week for the ongoing Linux 6.16 cycle, including the ability to auto-fix more file-system check "fsck" errors...
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Bcachefs Is Now Able To Auto-Fix A Few More Fsck Errors

Another round of Bcachefs file-system fixes were submitted and merged this week for the ongoing Linux 6.16 cycle, including the ability to auto-fix more file-system check 'fsck' errors.
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Tria Expands Embedded Portfolio with Qualcomm SoMs Supporting Windows, Android, and Linux lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

Tria Expands Embedded Portfolio with Qualcomm SoMs Supporting Windows, Android, and Linux Tria Expands Embedded Portfolio with Qualcomm SoMs Supporting Windows, Android, and Linux

Tria, an Avnet company focused on embedded compute platforms, has introduced a new lineup of Qualcomm-powered SoMs.
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Intel Begins Preparing Linux For Next-Gen DSA 3.0 Accelerators

In addition to Intel recently upstreaming Linux support for new QAT "Gen 6" hardware as their next-generation QuickAssist Technology IP, Intel today began posting Linux kernel driver patches for a new version of their Data Streaming Accelerator (DSA). It looks like upcoming Xeon processors will be rolling out a lot of new accelerator IP...
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Intel Begins Preparing Linux For Next-Gen DSA 3.0 Accelerators

In addition to Intel recently upstreaming Linux support for new QAT 'Gen 6' hardware as their next-generation QuickAssist Technology IP, Intel today began posting Linux kernel driver patches for a new version of their Data Streaming Accelerator (DSA)
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Intel Vulkan Linux Driver Lands Initial Support For VP9 Decoding

Introduced last week with Vulkan 1.4.317 was Vulkan Video support for VP9 video decoding. Following that the open-source Radeon "RADV" Vulkan driver landed its VK_KHR_video_decode_vp9 support and now similarly the open-source Intel Vulkan driver has too...
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Intel Vulkan Linux Driver Lands Initial Support For VP9 Decoding

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(Updated) DFRobot Previews RISC-V-Based FireBeetle 2 with ESP32-P4, Targeting Image and Video Applications lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

(Updated) DFRobot Previews RISC-V-Based FireBeetle 2 with ESP32-P4, Targeting Image and Video Applications DFRobot Previews RISC-V-Based FireBeetle 2 with ESP32-P4, Targeting Image and Video Applications

The FireBeetle 2 ESP32-P4 is an upcoming compact development board designed for real-time image processing, video streaming, and wireless communication.
Giorgio Mendoza (LinuxGizmos.com)

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OpenMoonRay Introduces NUMA Support

Two years ago DreamWorks Animation open-sourced their MoonRay renderer that is an award-winning, state-of-the-art production MCRT renderer used for a number of feature films. Since then they have continued advancing this open-source code as OpenMoonRay and adding more features. The newest feature release of OpenMoonRay is now available with yet more capabilities for this impressive renderer...
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OpenMoonRay Introduces NUMA Support

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Google Cloud C4D Performance Benchmarks At The Top-End Show 39% Generational Improvement With EPYC Turin

Back in April at Google Cloud Next was the introduction of the new C4D family of VMs powered by AMD EPYC 9005 "Turin" processors. Back on launch day I looked at the C3D vs. C4D performance at some of the smaller, more common VM sizes. In today's article is a look at the top-end performance of the C4D family with 384 vCPUs. For those wonde…
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Google Cloud C4D Performance Benchmarks At The Top-End Show 39% Generational Improvement With EPYC Turin Review

Back in April at Google Cloud Next was the introduction of the new C4D family of VMs powered by AMD EPYC 9005 'Turin' processors.
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Sound Open Firmware 2.13 Released With Intel Panther Lake & Wildcat Lake Support

Sound Open Firmware 2.13 debuted today as the newest feature update to this open-source audio DSP stack started by Intel. With Sound Open Firmware 2.13 comes support for new Intel platforms and other enhancements...
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Sound Open Firmware 2.13 Released With Intel Panther Lake & Wildcat Lake Support

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