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AMD's Lemonade SDK For Local AI Adds NVIDIA CUDA Support
2+ hour, 5+ min ago (186+ words) Phoronix - Categories Computers Display Drivers Graphics Cards Linux Gaming Memory Motherboards Processors Software Storage Operating Systems Peripherals AMD's Lemonade SDK For Local AI Adds NVIDIA CUDA Support Michael Larabel is the principal author of Phoronix. com and founded the site…...
Linux Foundation's Latest AI Effort Is Around AI Asset & Data Exchange
3+ hour, 51+ min ago (208+ words) The Linux Foundation continues working to get more involved in new AI initiatives. Today the Linux Foundation announced the Open Sharing Project with an effort to standardize AI asset and data exchange. .. - Categories Computers Display Drivers Graphics Cards Linux Gaming…...
Linux's Cr OS EC Driver To Support Custom Fan Curves - Useful For Framework Laptops
5+ hour, 18+ min ago (215+ words) The cros_ec Linux kernel driver is used for supporting the Chrome OS Embedded Controller "EC" used by Chromebooks and various other laptops like Framework Laptops. With patches pending to cros_ec, support for custom fan curves is being introduced. .. - Categories Computers Display Drivers…...
RADV Driver Now Leveraging RDNA3+ Hardware Feature For Better Instruction Cache Prefetching
8+ hour, 40+ min ago (222+ words) Initially introduced in RDNA3 (GFX11) GPUs is INST_PREF_SIZE to specify the number of instruction bytes to prefetch prior to a wavefront beginning execution. The Mesa Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" is now making use of this feature in RDNA3/RDNA4 GPUs for better instruction cache prefetching....
AMDGPU Linux Driver Preps For HDMI 2. 1 Compliance Testing
8+ hour, 19+ min ago (222+ words) While not as exciting as features like HDMI 2. 1 FRL and Display Stream Compression itself, as part of AMD's efforts to provide a fully open-source HDMI 2. 1 driver implementation for AMDGPU, new code is being prepped for their kernel driver to support…...
KDE KWin Patches Aiming To Optimize Gaming Latency To Better Compete With Windows
7+ hour, 53+ min ago (223+ words) Open-source developer Jakub Oko'ski has been working on comparing the gaming latency between Linux and Windows and in turn working to drive some improvements into KDE's KWin Wayland compositor so the latency is more competitive with the gaming experience under…...
Linux Firmware Repository Preps For AI Coding Agents
8+ hour, 5+ min ago (213+ words) The linux-firmware. git repository that serves as the de facto home of all the binary blobs used by the mainline Linux kernel open-source drivers has now introduced AGENTS. md documentation and other preparations for embracing AI coding agents. .. - Categories Computers…...
Linux Sees Patches For "Critical" Vulnerability Affecting Many Arm CPUs
17+ hour, 54+ min ago (235+ words) Made public today is CVE-2025-10263 as a "critical" security vulnerability affecting many different Arm CPU cores. CVE-2025-10263 could allow for privilege escalation on affected systems due to a specific timing condition during a memory permission change. Fundamentally it comes down…...
mac OS 27 Beta Breaks The Ability To Boot Asahi Linux
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (219+ words) Asahi Linux is warning its users from trying out the new mac OS 27 "Golden Gate" beta released this week by Apple. With mac OS 27 beta, the Asahi Linux partition is no longer visible and thus unable to boot to your…...
RISC-V CPU Performance Up 8x In Five Years: Si Five Hi Five Unmatched To Spacemi T K3
1+ day, 4+ hour ago (137+ words) Phoronix RISC-V CPU Performance Up 8x In Five Years: Si Five Hi Five Unmatched To Spacemi T K3: Recently I published some initial Spacemi T K3 benchmarks for that first-to-market RISC-V RVA23 So C with the K3 Pico-ITX mini computer. In there was a comparison…...