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Linux 6.16 To Add Asahi UAPI Header For Apple Silicon Graphics But No Actual Driver Yet

2 weeks ago | phoronix.com | Michael Larabel

Submitted today via DRM-Misc-Next for queuing in DRM-Next until the Linux 6.16 merge window in June is the Asahi driver user-space API "UAPI" header. This is the user-space API intended for the Asahi kernel graphics driver for supporting the Apple M-Series graphics hardware under Linux.
AMD Prepping PKI Accelerator Driver "AMDPK" For Linux

2 weeks ago | phoronix.com | Michael Larabel

Not to be confused with the AMDXDNA accelerator driver that was mainlined just with the Linux 6.14 kernel, AMD Linux engineers are now working on "AMDPK" as a new accelerator driver for their upcoming PKI Accelerator engines. The AMD PKI accelerator is a new piece of IP debuting in their Versal NET SoC. Linux 6.15 merged initial support for the AMD Versal NET SoC for AMD's new Network Adaptive Compute Accelerator Platform for high performance computing, networking, and AI acceleration.
OpenSSH 10.0 Released To Better Fend Off Attacks By Quantum Computers

2 weeks ago | phoronix.com | Quantum Computers |Michael Larabel

OpenSSH 10.0 is now available for this widely-used SSH client/server implementation. There are a number of changes to find with OpenSSH 10.0 including better protections against possible attacks by future quantum computers. OpenSSH 10.0 drops support for the weak DSA signature algorithm that had been deprecated already for the past decade.
AMD To Detail ROCm Open-Source Software Progress In June

2 weeks ago | phoronix.com | Michael Larabel

AMD announced today they will be hosting a virtual "Advancing AI 2025" event in mid-June where they will talk about their next-gen AMD Instinct accelerators while of much interest to many Phoronix readers is an update on the ROCm open-source software.
Benchmarks: Google Cloud's New C4D VMs Deliver Remarkable Performance With AMD EPYC Turin

2 weeks ago | phoronix.com | Michael Larabel

As part of the announcements coming out today from Google Cloud Next 2025, the embargo has now lifted on the new Google Cloud C4D VMs. Powered by AMD EPYC 9005 "Turin" processors, the new C4D instances deliver incredibly high performance and can scale up to 384 vCPUs with 3TB of RAM. For web servers, databases, CPU-based machine learning, and other workloads, the new Google C4D instances deliver incredible uplift compared to the prior-gen C3D instances.
Ubuntu 25.04 Now Ships With JPEG-XL Support Enabled By Default

2 weeks ago | phoronix.com | Michael Larabel

The Ubuntu 25.04 release shipping this month will now feature JPEG-XL image format support out-of-the-box. For a while now there's been a push to integrate JPEG-XL image format support out-of-the-box in Ubuntu. Finally with Ubuntu 25.04 releasing next week that milestone is being realized after a very last minute landing of the JPEG-XL support in Ubuntu 25.04 by default.
RadeonSI Driver Wires Up Support For 16-bit NIR Types: Benefits GLES & OpenCL

2 weeks ago | phoronix.com | Michael Larabel

Well known open-source AMD Mesa developer Marek Olšák has landed his most recent conquest: implementing support for 16-bit NIR types within the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver along with the LLVM and ACO compiler back-ends. Merged this week for Mesa 25.1 is support for 16-bit NIR types with this intermediate representation used by the Mesa graphics drivers.
Initial Support For Apple Cores Merged For The GCC 15 Compiler: A12, M1, M2 & M3

2 weeks ago | phoronix.com | Michael Larabel

As a sooner than expected follow-up to the recent news article around Apple M1 / M2 / M3 core support for the GCC compiler, that code has now been successfully merged in time for the upcoming GCC 15 stable compiler release.
AMD Preferred Core Support For Linux Revised To Better Handle Dynamic Rankings

2 weeks ago | phoronix.com | Michael Larabel

Merged back in Linux 6.9 was AMD Preferred Core support for Linux for the concept of "preferred cores" with newer Zen processors that are communicated via ACPI CPPC for select cores able to reach a higher maximum frequency or should otherwise be preferred over other cores on the system in the name of maximizing performance. That was a nice step forward for better handling newer Ryzen processors on Linux and matching functionality that had already been working under Microsoft Windows.
Microsoft's Azure Linux 3.0 Adds AMD GPU Driver Install Instructions

2 weeks ago | phoronix.com | Michael Larabel

Yesterday brought the newest update to Microsoft's in-house Linux distribution, Azure Linux. The Azure Linux 3.0.20250402 brought many package updates mostly in the name of shipping security fixes plus brought new instructions on making use of the AMD graphics driver stack under this Microsoft Linux distribution along with various other updates.