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GNOME's Sysprof Integrates CPU Scheduler Data

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 August, 2023

GNOME's Sysprof is a wonderful system-wide profiling tool for helping developers analyze bottlenecks and debug other challenging issues. This system profiler has covered both kernel and user-space but to date has not provided any insight around the CPU scheduler behavior and thus developers have had to resort to other tooling there. But for the GNOME 45 release, Sysprof has integrated CPU scheduler details...

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LibreOffice 24.2 Will Succeed LibreOffice 7.6

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 August, 2023

One nugget of information in the LibreOffice 7.6 release announcement for those who missed it and deserves calling out specifically... Succeeding LibreOffice 7.6 will not be v7.7 or v8.0 but rather v24.2...

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Intel Releases Updated Version Of Its Open-Source Font For Developers

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21 August, 2023

Intel is well regarded for their vast open-source contributions from being a major contributor to the Linux kernel and other areas like Mesa, GCC/glibc, and other key open-source projects to various niche projects like ConnMan and other smaller software projects. Debuting a few months ago as one of the newest open-source Intel projects catching us by surprise was Intel One Mono as a font designed for developers. Today brings a new version of that font...

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NVIDIA BIOS Signature Lock Broken - What Caused Pains For The Open-Source Driver For Years

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21 August, 2023

New (Windows) tools have been released that break the NVIDIA BIOS Signature Lock, the "security" functionality in use since the GeForce GTX 900 days around signed firmware/BIOS handling. This authentication mechanism is what in turn has led to the GeForce GTX 700 series still being the best supported series by the open-source Nouveau driver while the GTX 900 series and later have been crippled to their low boot clock speeds due to PMU/re-clocking restrictions. While Nouveau developers have been working on the GPU System Processor (GSP) approach for RTX 20 "Turing" GPUs and newer to workaround this limitation as NVIDIA's blessed path forward, the NVIDIA BIOS Signature Lock has now been broken by Windows modders...

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Git 2.42 Released With Less Warnings For SHA-256 Usage

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21 August, 2023

Git 2.42 is out today as the newest feature update for this dominant open-source distributed revision control system...

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Several HID Driver Improvements Ready For Linux 6.6

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21 August, 2023

In recent days a number of feature patches were queued in HID-next to provide new driver features and hardware support within the Human Interface Device subsystem...

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Coreboot's amdfwtool Updated For EPYC Genoa

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21 August, 2023

The amdfwtool utility living within the Coreboot repository for dealing with AMD platform firmware files has now added support for EPYC 9004 "Genoa" processors...

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Linux 6.6 AMDGPU Driver To Expose Current & Average Power For Capable GPUs

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21 August, 2023

On Friday AMD sent out another pull request of AMDGPU/AMDKFD driver changes for the upcoming Linux 6.6 merge window. With the Linux 6.5 release due out likely in one week and the cut-off having passed for new "feature" code for DRM-Next, this latest AMDGPU pull request was centered around bug-fixes but also with a few minor additions...

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Lenovo ThinkPad P14s Gen4 AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U Linux Tests Forthcoming

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21 August, 2023

For those that have been eyeing an AMD Ryzen 7 7040 "Phoenix" series laptop for Linux use, over the coming weeks ahead there will be benchmarks and a review on the Lenovo ThinkPad P14s Gen4 with AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U laptop. With this 8-core / 16-thread Zen 4 mobile processor clocking up to 5.1GHz, 64GB of LPDDR5x-6400 memory, 1TB NVMe SSD, and 2.8K OLED display it should be a real treat if the Linux support is all in good shape...