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VirtIO Media Driver Upstreaming Pursued For Relaying V4L2 Media Devices To Guests

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 February, 2025

Android and Chrome OS already are carrying the VirtIO Media driver as a means of enabling virtualization of host media devices into a guest while now patch review is underway in trying to get VirtIO Media upstreamed in the mainline Linux kernel...

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SMT Remains Very Advantageous For 5th Gen AMD EPYC Performance

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 February, 2025

After recently re-visiting the AMD EPYC 9005 series AVX-512 performance, I followed up with some fresh SMT benchmarks looking at the performance benefits and power of toggling Simultaneous Multi-Threading on the 5th Gen AMD EPYC "Turin" hardware. Here are some fresh numbers looking at the SMT performance with AMD Zen 5 server processors.

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AMD Talks Up IREE/MLIR Programming For Ryzen AI NPUs

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 February, 2025

While the AMDXDNA driver was merged for the Linux 6.14 kernel for enabling the Ryzen AI NPUs atop a mainline kernel build, there's still the user-space software needed for making use of the neural processing units found in Ryzen AI SoCs. AMD talked more about programming Ryzen AI NPUs last weekend in Belgium at the FOSDEM 2025 developer conference...

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Intel's OpenVINO 2025.0 Brings Support For Deepseek Models, Better AI Performance

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 February, 2025

Intel's software engineers working on the OpenVINO AI toolkit today released OpenVINO 2025.0 that brings support for the much talked about Deepseek models along with other large language models (LLMs), performance improvements to some of the existing model support, and other changes...

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LibreOffice 25.2 Open-Source Office Suite Released With Many Improvements

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 February, 2025

LibreOffice 25.2 is out this morning as the newest half-year update to this leading cross-platform, free software office suite...

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Mesa 25.0 Is Trending Well For Release Later This Month

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 February, 2025

Mesa 25.0-rc2 was released yesterday and it's rather boring on the changes, but that's a good thing during this bug fixing phase...

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GNU Gold Linker Is Deprecated & Will Be Gone For Good Without New Developers

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 February, 2025

With the recent GNU Binutils 2.44 release, one of the changes is worth calling out in its own article: the GNU Gold linker is now officially deprecated and is now being segregated to its own extra Binutils package but risks being removed all together without new developer volunteers stepping up to maintain this linker...

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PipeWire Is Doing An Excellent Job Handling Audio/Video Streams On The Linux Desktop

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 February, 2025

Red Hat engineer and PipeWire lead developer Wim Taymans presented at FOSDEM 2025 last weekend around the state of the PipeWire project for this integral component to the modern Linux desktop...

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Google Interested In The Modern Intel Xe Linux Kernel Driver On Alder Lake

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 February, 2025

The modern Intel "Xe" Linux kernel Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) driver as the clean successor to the i915 driver has been an experimental option for Tigerlake and newer but only for Xe2 graphics (Lunar Lake / Battlemage) and newer is it used by default. But Google at least for their Chromebook use-cases is entertaining the idea of switching over to the Xe driver rather than the long-used i915 kernel driver for Alder Lake era hardware...

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