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      AMD Radeon On Linux 6.13 + Mesa 25.0-devel vs. NVIDIA R565 Linux Graphics/Gaming Performance

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 January, 2025

    Ahead of the upcoming NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50 series graphics "Blackwell" and the AMD Radeon RX 9070 series "RDNA4" later in the quarter, I figured it would be worthwhile having a dedicated article looking at the latest upstream Linux graphics/gaming performance for current generation NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 and AMD Radeon RX 7000 series graphics cards. On the AMD side was the near-final Linux 6.13 kernel along with Mesa 25.0-devel for the latest RADV Vulkan and RadeonSI OpenGL driver support while on the NVIDIA side was their current 565 driver release branch.
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      AMD Announces The AMDGPU Composition Stack "ACS" For Advanced Linux Desktop Features

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 January, 2025

    An unexpected surprise today are AMD Linux software engineers announcing a new project a bit further outside the scope of their open-source graphics drivers... The AMDGPU Composition Stack "ACS" is for delivering new advanced features atop Wayland for bettering the Linux desktop display capabilities...
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      Very Promising Linux Patch Optimizes TLB Flushes During Page Reclamation

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 January, 2025

    Google engineer Vinay Banakar sent out a patch this week for the Linux kernel's memory management code to optimize TLB flushes during page reclaim and are showing very promising results...
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      Linux's KUnit Will Now Default To Using Hardware Acceleration For Faster Testing

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 January, 2025

    Surprisingly a change not made years ago, the Linux Kernel Unit Testing "KUnit" framework with the Linux 6.14 kernel is set to use hardware acceleration by default for faster testing where available...
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      Linux 6.14 Working To Make It Less Painful Debugging Early Boot Issues

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 January, 2025

    Linux kernel developers are working to make it easier to debug early boot issues such as Kexec failures as currently dealing with such situations can be a frustrating and time consuming headache for figuring out the problems prior to the kernel being fully brought online...
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      AMD Releases Orochi 3.0 For HIP & CUDA API Switching At Run-Time

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 January, 2025

    Back in April 2022 was the announcement by AMD's GPUOpen team of Orochi as a library for HIP/CUDA API run-time switching. Making use of Orochi allows for dynamically targeting either AMD HIP or NVIDIA CUDA at run-time to ease the distribution/usage of apps wanting to target both AMD and NVIDIA GPUs from the same software build. Today Orochi 3.0 was released...
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      Important Changes To Intel TDX Coming With Linux 6.14

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 January, 2025

    Important code restructuring to the Intel Trust Domain Extensions (TDX) code is landing for the Linux 6.14 kernel to make it more robust moving forward and preparing for future features around this confidential computing / trusted execution environment (TEE) functionality built into the newest Xeon processors...
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      Qt 6.9 Toolkit Beta 2 Now Available For Testing

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 January, 2025

    The second of three planned betas for the Qt 6.9 cross-platform UI toolkit is now available for testing ahead of the planned stable release in March...
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      www.phoronix.com /news/Qt-6.9-Beta-2

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      FreeBSD 15.0 Aims For Reproducible Builds / Zero-Trust Builds With Fresh Funding

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 January, 2025

    The FreeBSD Foundation has begun receiving funding to work on zero-trust builds / reproducible builds. The work will hopefully be wrapped up in time for the major FreeBSD 15.0 release...
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