Raspberry Pi CM4 Now Available With "Extended Temperature" Variants

([Raspberry Pi] 3 March 08:45 AM EST Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4)

Raspberry Pi has been on a spree lately with many new product launches such as the Raspberry Pi 500, Raspberry Pi Monitor, Raspberry Pi 5 16GB, and Compute Module 5 in the past few months. Today the company announced an expansion of their offerings in the Compute Module 4 line-up.

Rustup 1.28 Adds New Windows AArch64 & LoongArch Platform Support

([Programming] 3 March 08:32 AM EST Rustup 1.28)

Rustup 1.28 is out today as the newest version of this official tool that is the Rust project's recommended means of installing the Rust programming language support.

Intel Preps Linux For eUSB2V2 To Enhance USB 2.0 For Higher Resolution Laptop Webcams

([Hardware] 3 March 06:57 AM EST eUSB2V2)

Last September the USB Implementers Forum quietly published an update to the USB 2.0 specification... The Embedded USB2 Version 2.0 "eUSB2V2" supplement to provide for better performance with significantly higher data rates to USB 2.0 while maintaining the low-voltage electrical interface.

Linux Gaining SMP Support For The OpenPOWER Microwatt

([Linux Kernel] 3 March 06:23 AM EST Multiple Cores)

Open-sourced back in 2019 was the OpenPOWER Microwatt as an open-source, soft processor core of Power ISA 3.0 and intended for use on FPGA boards and then there was seemingly short-lived work to fabricate a Microwatt chip and Microwatt also found its way for use within a BMC implementation. Linux 5.14 added support for this soft CPU core while the upcoming Linux 6.15 cycle is set to introduce SMP support for Microwatt.

Optimized AMD SEV Cache Flushing Patches Posted For Linux

([AMD] 3 March 06:06 AM EST Secure Encrypted Virtualization)

The newest upstream-focused work around AMD SEV for Secure Encrypted Virtualization with EPYC server processors is a set of patches to better optimize cache flushing.

Linux 6.14-rc5 Released: "Nothing Strange Stands Out"

([Linux Kernel] 2 March 03:00 PM EST Linux 6.14-rc5)

Linus Torvalds just released the Linux 6.14-rc5 kernel as the Linux 6.14 stable kernel approaches toward release later in March.

NVIDIA Is Finding Great Success With Vulkan Machine Learning - Competitive With CUDA

([NVIDIA] 2 March 10:00 AM EST NVIDIA Vulkan AI)

It's not only AMD that is working on Vulkan/SPIR-V support for machine learning / AI software but NVIDIA has been working on improvements too for enhancing Vulkan-powered machine learning software. The outlook for using Vulkan within machine learning software is quite positive and even able to offer similar performance to NVIDIA's prized CUDA.

TurnkeyML 6.0 Released With OpenAI-Compatible Server, Other Changes

([Programming] 2 March 06:32 AM EST TurnkeyML 6.0)

Back in 2023 ONNX and AMD announced TurnkeyML as an "AI insights toolchain". There hasn't been too much news about TurnkeyML since then and they now describe the project itself as a "no-code AI toolchain" while this week brought the release of the big TurnkeyML 6.0 software.

ARM Linux Kernel May Shift To Generic Entry Code: Less Assembly But Lower Performance

([Arm] 2 March 06:16 AM EST ARM Linux Kernel Entry)

A pull request was sent out on Friday that could potentially land for the upcoming Linux 6.15 kernel to transition ARM's kernel entry code from some architecture-specific Assembly over to using the generic entry code path. It means more unification and transitioning some Assembly code over to C, but it also comes with some hits to performance.

SDL 3.2.6 Released With HiDPI Icons & Color Management On Wayland

([Linux Gaming] 2 March 06:02 AM EST SDL 3.2.6)

Following the official SDL 3 release back in January, SDL 3.2.6 was released this weekend as the newest iteration of this widely-used software/hardware abstraction layer that is commonly leveraged by cross-platform games.

Steam Survey For February 2025 Shows A Big Drop To Linux Use

([Linux Gaming] 2 March 06:25 AM EST Steam Survey)

Back during January Steam on Linux dropped by 0.23% to a 2.06% marketshare while overnight the numbers were published for February 2025...

Linux's New Way Of Informing User-Space Over Hung GPUs May Become More Useful

([Linux Kernel] 1 March 03:09 PM EST Extending Wedged Events)

Last month I wrote about new code slated to be added for Linux 6.15 that would provide a cross-driver/standardized means of reporting to user-space over hung GPUs. For the likes of the AMD and Intel graphics drivers initially, user-space will be notified via this new wedged event when a GPU is hung in case user-space wants to take additional actions to try to recover the GPU or at least properly note the troubled state of the GPU. There are now proposed patches under review for further extending this functionality.

AMD Readies More Graphics Driver Improvements For Linux 6.15

([Radeon] 1 March 08:45 AM EST AMDGPU Linux 6.15)

Last week AMD sent out a big batch of new graphics driver code for Linux 6.15 including new GPU support, OEM i2c support for RGB lighting and other features, and other updates. Another round of AMDGPU/AMDKFD feature code targeting the upcoming Linux 6.15 merge window was sent out on Friday.

NVIDIA Blackwell, Continued AMD Zen 5 Benchmarking & Rust Drama Dominated February

([Phoronix] 1 March 06:38 AM EST February Highlights)

While a shorter month, there were still 263 original articles published on Phoronix during February. A lot of exciting hardware in the lab to notable open-source milestones and interesting kernel developments made for an interesting month besides the usual battle over ad-blockers and pressure on the web publishing industry.

Intel Core 2 CPUs Have Been Affected By An Annoying Linux Kernel Bug For 5+ Years

([Intel] 1 March 06:41 AM EST Intel Core 2)

A fix was merged to the Linux 6.14 kernel on Friday -- and also for back-porting to existing Linux stable kernels over the coming days -- for fixing an annoying problem with Intel Core 2 processors. The problem, which was introduced to the Linux kernel back in 2019, could lead to system stalls and boot delays for those still using Intel Core 2 CPUs with modern distributions.