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Linux 7.1 Will Power Off The System By Default If A Fatal ACPI Error Occurs

Phoronix | March 2, 2026, 1 p.m. | Original

An important default kernel behavior change worth noting in advance for the upcoming Linux 7.1 kernel is that the system will attempt to power-off automatically if encountering any fatal ACPI errors. Up to now the Linux kernel has just logged ACPI fatal errors.

A change queued into the Linux power management subsystem's "linux-next" Git branch ahead of Linux 7.1 is altering the default system behavior if encountering a fatal ACPI error. With existing Linux kernels when hitting any ACPI fatal error, there would simply

Linux 7.0 Shows Off Nice Performance Gains For Databases In Small AMD EPYC Servers

Phoronix | March 2, 2026, 10:20 a.m. | Original

Last week with my ongoing testing of the in-development Linux 7.0 kernel I found nice performance improvements for PostgreSQL and other workloads when testing on a 128-core AMD EPYC 9755 "Turin" server. Curious if those wins were due to optimizations focused on better scalability with today's "big" servers, I also ran some comparison Linux 7.0 benchmarks on the smaller AMD EPYC 4005 class servers too. Some nice wins carried over.

Using an AMD EPYC

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Framework 16 Gen1 Seeing Coreboot + AMD openSIL Port, Framework 13 AMD Gen1 To Follow

Phoronix | March 2, 2026, 9:20 a.m. | Original

Work is underway by 9elements on porting Coreboot plus AMD openSIL to the first-generation Ryzen 7000 series Framework 16 laptop and is expected to be followed by a similar port to the Framework 13 Gen1 laptop too.

Alicja Michalska of 9elements shared the work-in-progress effort being done to get the Framework 16 Gen1 (Ryzen 7000 series models) up and running with Coreboot using the AMD openSIL CPU silicon initialization library. The plan is to follow-up

New Zlib-rs Delivers More Performance With AVX-512 VNNI Adler32 Implementation

Phoronix | March 2, 2026, 8:19 a.m. | Original

Zlib-rs as the Rust programming language implementation of Zlib from the Trifetca Tech Foundation is out with a shiny new release (actually, releases) today.

Zlib-rs 0.6.1 was released today with a variety of bug fixes, fuzzing enhancements, and other improvements to the codebase. What I found most interesting with Zlib-rs 0.6.1 was a VNNI Adler32 variant . The AVX-512 VNNI implementation is faster than the AVX-512 baseline code found

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More ASUS Desktop Motherboards Will Support Sensor Monitoring With Linux 7.1

Phoronix | March 2, 2026, 6:27 a.m. | Original

ASUS desktop motherboards have been seeing broader sensor monitoring support on Linux in recent years. ASUS motherboards for Intel and AMD processors have been seeing more support added thanks to the open-source community with new additions to the likes of the ASUS-EC-Sensors driver and other hardware monitoring (HWMON) driver code. This is continuing for Linux 7.1.

Queued up over the past week have been more ASUS motherboard support additions to land in the hardware monitoring subsystem's "hwmon-next" Git branch ahead of

Armbian 26.02 Released: New Boards, Powered By Linux 6.18 LTS & RISC-V Xfce Desktop

Phoronix | March 2, 2026, 6:10 a.m. | Original

Armbian 26.02 has been released released for this Debian-derived Linux distribution primarily focused on supporting a range of Arm and RISC-V platforms. With Armbian 26.02 there is yet more new boards added while moving to the Linux 6.18 LTS kernel and also adding a RISC-V Xfce desktop install option.

New board support in Armbian 26.02 includes the likes of the SpacemiT MusePi Pro, Radxa Rock 4D, Orange Pi RV2, and ODROID M

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Intel Releases llm-scaler-vllm 0.14.0-b8, Talks Up 1.49x Performance With BMG-G31

Phoronix | March 2, 2026, 5:56 a.m. | Original

Intel kicked off the new month by releasing the latest version of LLM Scaler vLLM ( llm-scaler-vllm ) as their Docker-based solution for running vLLM on Intel Battlemage GPUs for AI inferencing.

Intel llm-scaler-vllm v0.14.0-b8 is out today as the newest version of this solution for vLLM on Intel graphics hardware. This new version is rebased against vLLM 0.14 upstream while also upgrading PyTorch to 2.10 and pulling in the latest oneAPI components

Steam Survey Results Published For February 2026

Phoronix | March 2, 2026, 3:41 a.m. | Original

Valve just published the latest Steam Survey monthly figures to provide insight on various software and hardware trends across this dominant gaming ecosystem. One of the most interesting measurements is the monthly changes in the size of the Linux gaming marketshare.

Back in November Steam on Linux use hit an all-time high of 3.2%, then in December Steam on Linux hit 3.58% , and for January settled at 3.38% . Now the February numbers are out and Linux is coming in at..

AMD Announces Ryzen AI PRO 400 Series Desktop CPUs For AI-Focused Computing

Phoronix | March 2, 2026, 3 a.m. | Original

AMD is using Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona this week to announce new Ryzen AI PRO 400 Series products, including Ryzen AI PRO 400 desktop processors.

Complementing the existing Ryzen AI PRO 400 series, which complemented the Ryzen AI 400 series (non-PRO) introduction earlier this year at CES, is now new mobile workstation offerings. Still Zen 5 and RDNA 3.5 based.

Linux 7.0-rc2 Released: "So I'm Not Super-Happy With How Big This Is"

Phoronix | March 1, 2026, 7:15 p.m. | Original

The second weekly release candidate of Linux 7.0 is now available for testing.

Linux 7.0-rc2 is out with an initial batch of fixes following last Sunday's Linux 7.0-rc1 that capped off the busy Linux 7.0 merge window. Among the fixes merged this week were numerous AMDXDNA Ryzen AI accelerator driver fixes along with scattered kernel graphics driver fixes at large. Linus Torvalds also authored a change himself for dropping an old Kconfig option to address tiresome log spam messages . Plus

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