As I wrote about back in October, NVIDIA engineers have begun making Nova driver preparations for next-gen GPUs . In particular, the first step of plumbing "Boot42" support for hardware initialization as a new requirement for post-Blackwell GPUs.
Linux 6.19 Nova Driver Landing Boot42 Support For Next-Gen NVIDIA GPUs
As I wrote about back in October, NVIDIA engineers have begun making Nova driver preparations for next-gen GPUs . In particular, the first step of plumbing "Boot42" support for hardware initialization as a new requirement for post-Blackwell GPUs.
Rusticl Has Turned Out Remarkably Well For Open-Source OpenCL For Mesa Drivers
At the X.Org Developers Conference in Vienna, Karol Herbst of Red Hat presented on some of the milestones achieved this year for this
Intel Preps Linux KVM For Diamond Rapids' AVX10.2 & Expanded AMX
The patches sent out today on the Linux kernel mailing list allow the new instructions found with Diamond Rapids (and Nova Lake sans the AMX bits) to be properly advertised to Linux KVM guest virtual machines.
This work includes adding new Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX) instructions found on Diamond Rapids
MEMINSPECT Proposed For The Linux Kernel To Help In Memory Analysis / Debugging
Eugen Hristev of Linaro sent out the set of 26 patches proposing MEMINSPECT. Hristev describes the MEMINSPECT functionality as:
"meminspect is a mechanism which allows the kernel to mark specific memory areas for memory dumping or specific inspection, statistics, usage. Once regions are marked, meminspect keeps an internal list with the regions in a dedicated table.
Further, these regions can be accessed using specific
Rust-Based Arm GPU Kernel Driver "Tyr" Begins Running GNOME & Basic Games
Tyr was upstreamed in Linux 6.18 as a starting point for this modern Rust-based Arm Mali driver. Like the
Xen 4.21 Released With AMD CPPC & Resizable BAR Support
Xen 4.21 ships with formally supporting the qemu-xen device models inside a Linux stub domain, which is a win for the likes of QubesOS.
For those using Xen on AMD hardware, there is now AMD CPU driver support for ACPI Collaborative Processor Performance Control (CPPC
AMD Threadripper 7980X Performance On Linux Two Years After Release
This week marks two years since the debut of the Ryzen Threadripper 7000 series processors. Given the occasion, I decided to revisit the Linux performance of the Threadripper 7980X compared to original benchmarks from November 2023 to see how the latest Linux software stack performs for these Zen 4 HEDT processors.
Today's benchmarking is a straight-forward comparison of the Threadripper 7980X performance at launch with the Ubuntu 23.10 stack at the time to now how
AMD Begins Posting Open-Source Linux Patches For Their Next-Gen GPU IP
Yesterday saw the PSP 15.0
Intel "imh_edac" Driver Being Developed For New Memory Controller With Diamond Rapids
This new driver is "imh_edac" and is being developed as a new solution rather than tacking onto the existing Intel EDAC driver code given several key differences with Diamond Rapids. Namely due to MMIO-based memory spaces rather than the memory controllers as PCI devices to the operating system and also avoiding the need to re-test/verify
Qualcomm Upstreaming Initial GPU Support For Snapdragon X2 Elite In Linux 6.19
Rob Clark of Qualcomm sent out the initial MSM DRM driver feature changes planned