Fwupd 2.0.11 Brings Support For The Lenovo Thunderbolt 5 Smart Dock
([LVFS] 4 June 08:59 AM EDT
Fwupd 2.0.11)
Fwupd 2.0.11 is now available as the latest update to this open-source firmware updating tool for Linux systems.
AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT Linux Performance
([Graphics Cards] 4 June 09:00 AM EDT
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Ahead of the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT graphics card hitting retailers tomorrow, today the review embargo lifts on this latest addition to the RDNA4 family. Here are the initial Linux graphics performance benchmarks for this new $349 graphics card compared to other AMD Radeon graphics cards as well as the NVIDIA GeForce and Intel Arc competition.
WHIP Muxer Merged To FFmpeg For Sub-Second Latency Streaming
([Multimedia] 4 June 08:00 AM EDT
WHIP Muxer)
A big project was merged into FFmpeg overnight in providing a WHIP muxer for sub-second latency streaming.
New CXL RAS Features Upstreamed For Linux 6.16
([Hardware] 4 June 06:43 AM EDT
Compute Express Link)
Linux kernel developers continue building out the support around the Compute Express Link (CXL) specification for benefiting modern high performance servers. With the in-development Linux 6.16 kernel there are more CXL features now in place.
Ubuntu Developers Discuss The Difficult Issue Of Splitting Up Firmware Packages
([Ubuntu] 4 June 07:00 AM EDT
Firmware Package Split?)
Ubuntu developers have recently started a discussion over possibly splitting up the "linux-firmware" package into multiple sub-packages given the growing size of all the different firmware binaries needed to support the diverse range of hardware supported by the Linux kernel. It's nice in theory for helping to reduce the install footprint of Ubuntu Linux but in practice will be difficult to pull off without potentially risking the out-of-the-box hardware support on Ubuntu Linux.
Sched_Ext Boasts CPU Selection Improvements In Linux 6.16
([Linux Kernel] 4 June 06:10 AM EDT
Sched_Ext)
One of the niftiest kernel innovations to be upstreamed into Linux over the past year was sched_ext for extensible scheduler behavior in allowing kernel schedulers to be implemented via BPF programs. Sched_ext can allow for interesting scheduler improvements with a variety of use-cases and showed much potential even before being upstreamed. The work on sched_ext isn't yet over though and yet more improvements landed for Linux 6.16.
Hardware Monitoring For More ASUS Motherboards & Additional Zen 5 CPUs In Linux 6.16
([Hardware] 4 June 05:52 AM EDT
Linux 6.16 HWMON)
The numerous hardware monitoring "HWMON" subsystem updates were merged to Linux 6.16 on Tuesday for further enhancing the desktop hardware reporting capabilities and more with this next kernel release.
SquashFS Tools 4.7 Released: "20% To More Than Ten Times Faster"
([Linux Storage] 3 June 08:20 PM EDT
SquashFS Tools 4.7)
SquashFS-Tools 4.7 is out today as a big feature update to the user-space utilities for creating/modifying/extracting SquashFS read-only file-system images. SquashFS 4.7 delivers some big performance improvements and other nice enhancements.
Linux 6.16 Merges Support For The Apple Magic Mouse 2 USB-C
([Apple] 3 June 03:53 PM EDT
Apple Magic Mouse 2 USB-C)
While Linux 5.13 back in 2021 added support for the Apple Magic Mouse 2, only now with the Linux 6.16 kernel is there support arriving for the USB-C version of the Apple Magic Mouse 2 that debuted last year.
Linux 6.16 Brings Many Laptop Driver Improvements, New Dasharo ACPI Driver
([Hardware] 3 June 12:09 PM EDT
Platform Drivers x86)
The wide assortment of x86 platform driver updates have been merged for the Linux 6.16 kernel due out as stable in July. As is usually the case, there are a number of Intel and AMD platform updates along with a wide assortment of driver improvements primarily for laptops from the major OEMs/ODMs.
SMT Proves Very Advantageous For AMD Ryzen AI MAX Strix Halo Performance
([Processors] 3 June 09:00 AM EDT
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While Intel opted against implementing Hyper Threading for their latest Arrow Lake and Lunar Lake processors, Simultaneous Multi-Threading (SMT) still proves very effective on the AMD side. Even though the top-end AMD Ryzen AI MAX "Strix Halo" SoCs provide 16 Zen 5 cores, the presence of SMT for 32 threads still proves worthwhile from both a performance and power efficiency perspective. Here is an on/off comparison for SMT with the flagship AMD Ryzen AI MAX+ PRO 395 within the HP ZBook Ultra G1a.
AMD Upstreams Efficient Malloc Support On GPUs For LLVM libc
([LLVM] 3 June 08:36 AM EDT
GPU malloc)
AMD compiler engineer Joseph Huber is the one who ported DOOM to run on GPUs atop ROCm + LLVM libc as part of taking standard C/C++ code to run on GPUs and more recently has also been pursuing Flang/Fortran support atop GPUs. The latest in this ongoing quest is implementing efficient malloc support for memory allocation support on GPUs via the LLVM libc library.
ByoWave Modular Proteus Controller Kit Support Lands In Linux 6.16
([Linux Gaming] 3 June 06:54 AM EDT
Linux 6.16 Input Updates)
Valve engineer Pierre-Loup A. Griffais contributed ByoWave Proteus controller support to the Linux kernel. ByoWave Proteus are some modular controller designs that can be adapted based upon the needs of the gamer and even what title you may be playing at the moment. The triggers and buttons are all repositionable for a very customized controller experience. The only downside is the modular gaming controller kit retails for $299 USD, but at least now works off the mainline Linux kernel.
NVMe FDP Block Write Streams, IO_uring DMA-BUF Zero Copy Receive Land In Linux 6.16
([Linux Storage] 3 June 06:32 AM EDT
Block + IO_uring)
Merged last week for the Linux 6.16 kernel coming later this summer were the many block subsystem updates as well as the IO_uring feature updates.
FUSE Improvements Merged For Linux 6.16 To Enhance File-Systems In User-Space
([Linux Storage] 3 June 06:18 AM EDT
Linux 6.16 FUSE)
The FUSE improvements have been merged for the Linux 6.16 in enhancing the capabilities for file-systems implemented in user-space.
New Rust Abstractions Added In Linux 6.16 For More Core Areas
([Programming] 2 June 08:38 PM EDT
Linux 6.16 + Rust)
More Rust programming language abstractions for core code of the Linux kernel continues to land for the ongoing Linux 6.16 merge window.
Updated Steam Client Beta For Linux Fixes Slow Install Speeds For Updates
([Valve] 2 June 08:27 PM EDT
Steam Beta)
One day after Steam on Linux set a recent high with the Steam Survey, a new Steam client beta is out today to fix an excruciating annoyance affecting some Linux gamers.
More Intel Panther Lake Graphics Device IDs Added To Open-Source Linux Driver
([Intel] 2 June 04:24 PM EDT
PCI Device IDs)
Intel's Linux graphics driver engineers continue working on enabling support for the Xe3 integrated graphics premiering with next-gen Core Ultra "Panther Lake" SoCs. Today a number of additional PCI device IDs have been merged to the Mesa 25.2 code to reflect the growing family.
Kexec HandOver "KHO" Merged For Linux 6.16
([Linux Kernel] 2 June 02:57 PM EDT
Kexec HandOver)
Kexec HandOver "KHO" was merged for the in-development Linux 6.16 kernel as part of all the memory management "MM" changes. Kexec HandOver is providing the basis for some nifty low-level features moving forward.
Open-Source TPDE Can Compile Code 10-20x Faster Than LLVM
([LLVM] 2 June 12:43 PM EDT
TPDE Compiler Framework)
Researchers from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have announced TPDE as a fast and adaptable compiler back-end framework. The code is now open-source and they are talking up some very wild compile time improvements... Compiling code for x86_64 and AArch64 with TPDE can be ten to twenty times faster than using the LLVM Clang compiler.