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FUSE Enhancements Submitted For Linux 6.13

([Linux Storage] 25 November 10:30 AM EST Linux 6.13 FUSE)

The FUSE feature enhancements were submitted today for the Linux 6.13 kernel as part of improving the file-system in user-space capabilities.



Large Folio Patches For EXT4 Show Some Nice Performance Gains

([Linux Storage] 25 November 08:50 AM EST EXT4 Large Folios)

Huawei engineer Zhang Yi posted a set of nine patches today for enabling large folio support for regular files with the EXT4 file-system. These patches enable large folios for EXT4 on regular files except when using FSVERITY, FSCRYPT, or the journaled data mode. Long story short, these large folio patches can deliver some nice performance gains for both reads and writes.



New AMD Zen 5 Perf Events Going Into Linux 6.13

([AMD] 25 November 07:01 AM EST Zen 5 Perf Events)

Sent out last night for the ongoing Linux 6.13 merge window were all of the perf tool changes for the wonderful "perf" subsystem for performance profiling and the like. In addition to adding the HWMON PMU to "perf stat", leader sampling for inherited task events, and various other tooling improvements, there are also vendor event updates. Most notable with the updated CPU vendor events are new AMD Zen 5 processor events.



Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W Launches For $7

([Raspberry Pi] 25 November 06:41 AM EST Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W)

Complementing the Raspberry Pi Pico 2 that launched this summer, the Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W was announced today for $7 as the wireless-enabled variant of this small microcontroller board.



Fwupd 2.0.2 Allows Updating Firmware On Many More Devices

([Linux Kernel] 25 November 06:15 AM EST Fwupd 2.0.2)

Richard Hughes of Red Hat has released Fwupd 2.0.2 as the newest update to this open-source firmware updating solution for Linux systems.



Phoronix Premium Cyber Week Sale To Better Enjoy Our Linux Hardware Reviews & News

([Phoronix] 26 November 09:00 PM EST Cyber Week 2024)

While the end of year holidays are fast approaching, my commitment to Linux hardware and open-source software remains and there still is a lot of interesting content to come this year still -- each and every day, without change for roughly a decade. Unfortunately though due to the (sad) state of the ad industry, many major companies focusing on the likes of Facebook/Meta ads, and the frequent use of ad-blockers by Linux/FLOSS readers make ongoing operations increasingly difficult. But if you'd like to show some love this holiday season, the Phoronix Premium "Cyber Week" / "Black Friday" special is now taking place so you can enjoy the site ad-free, native dark mode support, multi-page articles on a single page, and other benefits while hopefully allowing the site to continue for years to come.



AMDXDNA Driver For Ryzen AI Now Ready To Appear In The Linux Kernel

([AMD] 24 November 09:22 AM EST AMDXDNA In DRM-Misc-Next)

The AMDXDNA kernel driver for Linux systems that was made open-source in January for supporting the Ryzen AI NPU on laptop SoCs going back to the Ryzen 7040 "Phoenix" series is now one step away from appearing in the mainline Linux kernel in the near future.



Virtual CPUFreq Driver Coming With Linux 6.13 For Better Power/Performance Within VMs

([Virtualization] 24 November 06:58 AM EST Virtual CPUFreq)

Earlier this week was the main power management updates for Linux 6.13 that included switching AMD EPYC Turin to using the amd_pstate driver on supported systems. Sent out this weekend was another set of power management updates that also includes a notable addition: the virtual CPUFreq driver.



Linux 6.13 Will Report The Number Of Hung Tasks Since Boot

([Linux Kernel] 24 November 06:15 AM EST hung_task_detect_count)

Following all of the MM patches earlier this week sent in by Andrew Morton, on Sunday morning he sent out all of the non-MM patches that he manages for the Linux kernel. Notable for Linux 6.13 with this pull request is presenting the hung task counter as well as finishing off the folio conversion in the NILFS2 code.



FreeBSD 14.2-RC1 Brings Install Image Improvements

([BSD] 23 November 05:07 PM EST FreeBSD 14.2-RC1)

Ahead of FreeBSD 14.2 hopefully releasing in just over one week, FreeBSD 14.2-RC1 is out this weekend as the last planned development release for testing ahead of that much anticipated point release.



Microsoft Continues "Demikernel" Development LibOS For Kernel-Bypass I/O

([Microsoft] 23 November 09:35 AM EST Microsoft Demikernel)

A Microsoft Research project that was quietly announced a few years ago to some fanfare but not hearing much about since has been Demikernel as their library OS architecture for kernel-bypass I/O. A Phoronix reader brought up Demikernel this week and while it hasn't been talked about much in recent years it does remain under active development with the most recent commits as of hours ago.



IBM Power11 CPUs Launching In 2025 - Linux 6.13 Preps KVM Nested Guests For Power11

([Virtualization] 23 November 08:45 AM EST POWER11 KVM Nested Guests)

IBM isn't formally releasing Power11 processors until next year, but their software engineers continue being quite busy preparing the Linux kernel and other open-source software for Power11. The newest on the kernel side is enabling support for KVM nested guests on IBM Power11 platforms.



9elements Takes Over Intel 1st Gen Xeon Scalable "Skylake" Support Within Coreboot

([Coreboot] 23 November 06:48 AM EST Xeon Scalable Gen1 + Coreboot)

For those still running a 1st Generation Xeon Scalable "Skylake" era server, support for it within the open-source Coreboot firmware may continue to improve all these years later thanks to firmware consulting firm 9elements.



Wine 9.22 Enables Wayland Driver By Default

([WINE] 23 November 06:21 AM EST Wine 9.22)

Wine 9.22 is out this weekend ahead of the Wine 10.0-rc1 in two weeks.



KDE Plasma 6.3 Sees More Feature Work, One More Crash Fix For KWin

([KDE] 23 November 06:14 AM EST KDE This Week)

KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his traditional weekly development recap that highlights all of the interesting work taking place within the KDE desktop space.



Linux CoC Announces Decision Following Recent Bcachefs Drama

([Linux Storage] 22 November 06:30 PM EST Bcachefs Decision)

Following the recent messaging from Bcachefs lead developer Kent Oversteet that Bcachefs changes for Linux 6.13 were rejected on the basis of his Code of Conduct, the Linux CoC committee has now formally announced their decision.



AMD 3D V-Cache Optimizer Driver Headlines The x86 Platform Enhancements In Linux 6.13

([Hardware] 22 November 02:35 PM EST platform-drivers-x86)

The x86 platform driver updates were merged this week for the in-development Linux 6.13 and include some nice refinements, especially for those using AMD Ryzen on Linux.



Linux 6.13 Enhances Interactions Between Intel TDX Guests & VMMs

([Intel] 22 November 12:47 PM EST Intel Trust Domain Extensions)

There are some new improvements in Linux 6.13 for the Intel TDX code for Trust Domain Extensions in providing hardware-based security protections for virtual machines on recent Xeon processors.



AMD Linux Graphics Driver Now Allows Display Support With Modern GPUs On LoongArch

([Radeon] 22 November 12:11 PM EST AMDGPU DC On LoongArch)

Following the Linux 6.13 DRM feature pull this week that brought many new open-source kernel graphics driver features, it's now time to further stabilize that new feature code with fixes. Sent out today were a batch of fixes for the AMDGPU/AMDKFD kernel driver code targeting the early Linux 6.13 state. In addition to fixes though is also allowing the AMDGPU Display Core "DC" code to build properly on LoongArch hardware for allowing recent AMD Radeon GPUs to work on these Chinese systems.



AMD Bus Lock Trap Support Merged For Linux 6.13

([AMD] 22 November 09:00 AM EST AMD Bus Lock Trap)

Going back to early in the year AMD Linux engineers began preparing support for a new Bus Lock Trap feature with Zen 5 CPUs. With the in-development Linux 6.13 kernel that support is being merged.



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