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      Zstd Gets A Few Fixes For Linux 6.3 While The Big Update Delayed To v6.4

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 3 March, 2023

    Merged last cycle was a big Zstd update for Linux 6.2 that took the kernel's Zstandard compression/decompression implementation to match that of upstream v1.5 after being stuck in the v1.4 series for more than a year. Following that, Zstd 1.5.4 was released last month. The hope was Zstd 1.5.4 would quickly follow into the mainline kernel while that is now delayed to Linux 6.4 and for the 6.3 kernel cycle seeing just a few fixes...
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      RISC-V Auto-Vectorization Support For The GCC Compiler Started

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 3 March, 2023

    A set of patches sent out this morning lay out the initial foundation for RISC-V auto-vectorization support within the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC)...
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      New Threaded/Atomic Console Patches Posted For Linux - Precursor For Mainlining RT

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 2 March, 2023

    Posted today was the "v1" patch series implementing threaded/atomic console infrastructure for printk. This is one of the last steps needed before the real-time (PREEMPT_RT) support can be finally mainlined into the Linux kernel...
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      AMD Ryzen 9 7900X3D Linux Gaming Performance

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 2 March, 2023

    After earlier this week providing the initial Linux benchmarks of the AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D across many Linux gaming tests as well as nearly 400 other tests, in today's article I am looking at the AMD Ryzen 9 7900X3D as the 12-core / 24-thread processor with the hefty 128MB L3 cache on this Zen 4 desktop processor. Due to having less time with the 7900X3D thus far, today's article is just getting things started in looking at the Linux gaming performance -- both native Linux games as well as many Windows games running on Linux thanks to Valve's wonderful Steam Play (Proton + DXVK / VKD3D-Proton) software.
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      openSUSE Tumbleweed Rolls Out Optional x86-64-v3 Optimized Packages

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 2 March, 2023

    The rolling-release openSUSE Tumbleweed package has begun rolling out a new "patterns-glibc-hwcaps-x86_64_v3" package that is automatically installed on supported systems and allows for automatically installing "recommended" x86-64-v3 optimized packages where available in the name of enjoying greater performance...
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      Linux 6.3 Improvements Yield Better Chances Of Successfully Compiling The Kernel With ~32GB RAM

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 2 March, 2023

    For those doing large Linux kernel builds such as with the "allyesconfig" build option for including as many of the available drivers as possible into the assembled Linux kernel image, objtool improvements ready to go with Linux 6.3 should cut down on the RAM usage and also speed-up the kernel build time. These improvements were motivated by Linux kernel developers beginning to run out of memory when trying to carry out the "allyesconfig" kernel builds on desktops with 32GB of RAM...
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      AMD SoundWire Driver For Linux Coming Together

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 2 March, 2023

    Going back to 2016 Intel began work on the SoundWire support for Linux, the MIPI standard started in 2014 to help consolidate audio interfaces between PC and mobile hardware. In preparation for seemingly new AMD hardware coming to market with SoundWire support, AMD engineers recently began working on an AMD SoundWire driver...
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      Many KVM Updates Land In Linux 6.3

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 2 March, 2023

    A lot of Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) updates were merged for the Linux 6.3 cycle to further enhance the open-source virtualization stack...
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      New RISC-V/ARM SoC Power Management Drivers Arrive For Linux 6.3

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 2 March, 2023

    Following last week's SoC and platform updates that included mainlining of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 support, new Qualcomm 5G RAN platform support, and many more Arm boards being enabled, this week saw the SoC driver updates now submitted...