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      Partial SMT Enablement Support Lands For Linux 6.6

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 4 September, 2023

    As part of the "smp/core" changes that were merged last week for the Linux 6.6 kernel, partial SMT enablement landed for processors that support more than two threads per physical core to allow greater run-time control over just how many threads to enable...
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      OpenBLAS 0.3.24 Released With Intel Sapphire Rapids Improvements, Apple M2 Detection

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

    OpenBLAS 0.3.24 is now available for this latest open-source BLAS and LAPACK implementation known for its advanced CPU optimizations and extensive tuning for providing for very speedy linear algebra kernels...
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      EXT4 Lands A Nice Performance Improvement For Appending To Delalloc Files

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

    With the EXT4 file-system updates for Linux 6.6 there is mostly some code clean-ups and other bug fixing. But one change in particular stands out for its performance impact...
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      Stadia Controller Rumbles & New Gaming Peripherals Supported By Linux 6.6

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

    There are new and improved gaming controller and peripheral support to find with the in-development Linux 6.6 kernel...
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      Linux 6.6 Unconditionally Enables x86 CPU Microcode Loading Support

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

    Among the many changes to land during this first week of the Linux 6.6 cycle were the x86 CPU microcode loader updates that now unconditionally makes that support part of the x86/x86_64 kernel builds...
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      Initial AMD EPYC Genoa Support Added To Coreboot, New Onyx Motherboard Target

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

    Going along with AMD's work on AMD openSIL for open-sourcing the CPU silicon initialization code to ultimately replace AGESA in future hardware platforms, the initial EPYC "Genoa" code for Coreboot has been upstreamed along with the Onyx motherboard target...
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      Bcachefs File-System Re-Submitted For Linux 6.6

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

    The Bcachefs file-system code born out of the Linux kernel's block cache code was submitted for Linux 6.5 but ultimately rejected. Bcachefs is now trying again to land for the current Linux 6.6 merge window...
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      Debian Dropping Its 32-bit MIPS Little Endian "mipsel" Port

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

    Debian developers will be discontinuing their 32-bit MIPS little-endian "mipsel" CPU architecture port moving forward...
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      EROFS Lands DEFLATE Compression, F2FS Improves Zoned Devices In Linux 6.6

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

    The EROFS read-only file-system and F2FS Flash Friendly File-System were among the FS updates to land this week for Linux 6.6 -- in addition to marking ReiserFS as obsolete...