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      Intel "Family 6" CPU Era Coming To An End Soon: Code Suggests Cooper Forest & Adams Lake

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix · 17:22

    Since the mid-90's with the P6 micro-architecture for the Pentium Pro as the sixth-generation x86 microarchitecture, Intel has relied on the "Family 6" CPU ID. From there Intel has just revved the Model number within Family 6 for each new microarchitecture/core. For example, Meteor Lake is Family 6 Model 170 and Emerald Rapids is Family 6 Model 207. This CPU ID identification is used within the Linux kernel and other operating systems for identifying CPU generations for correct handling, etc. But Intel Linux engineers today disclosed that Family 6 is coming to an end "soon-ish"...
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      www.phoronix.com /news/Intel-CPU-Family-6-Ending

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      GNU Coreutils 9.5 Can Yield 10~20% Throughput Boost For cp, mv & cat Commands

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix · 16:35

    While the uutils Rust-written Coreutils effort has been chugging along, the upstream GNU Coreutils effort is showing no signs of slowing down. Out today is GNU Coreutils 9.5 with yet more feature work and bug fixes including a security fix for a chmod issue that's been around since the beginning...
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      www.phoronix.com /news/GNU-Coreutils-9.5-Released

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      Intel Core Ultra "Meteor Lake" Yields Faster Performance With Linux 6.9

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix · 15:10

    While Intel Core Ultra "Meteor Lake" has been working out well under Linux already -- especially with regards to the enticing integrated Arc Graphics -- with the in-development Linux 6.9 kernel it's looking even better for the CPU performance. Here are some initial benchmarks looking at the Intel Core Ultra 7 155H Meteor Lake performance with Linux 6.8 vs. 6.9 Git.
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      www.phoronix.com /review/intel-meteorlake-linux-69

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      Arm China Looking At Upstreaming Their "Zhouyi" NPU Driver Into The Linux Kernel

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix · 14:34

    Arm China is looking at upstreaming their "Zhouyi" NPU driver into the Linux kernel via the recently-created accelerator "accel" subsystem. The Arm China Neural Processing Unit (NPU) driver in its current form has both an open-source kernel and user-space stack...
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      www.phoronix.com /news/Arm-China-Zhouyi-NPU-Linux-RFC

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      Flatpak 1.15.7 Will Now Automatically Remove Obsolete Driver Versions

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix · 13:54

    Simon McVittie issued the Flatpak 1.15.7 pre-release on Wednesday with a few notable changes for this widely-used open-source app sandboxing and distribution framework...
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      More Efficient VirtIO DRM Driver To Import Scanout Buffers From Other Devices

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix · 10:47

    Patches posted today by an Intel engineer allow for importing scanout buffers from other devices with the VirtIO DRM driver that is used in the virtualization space. The importing of scanout buffers from other devices/drivers can allow for more efficient use by avoiding excess copies...
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      EROFS Drops "Experimental" Warning For FSDAX With Linux 6.9

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix · 10:36

    Adding to the Linux 6.9 features is a minor post merge window change: the read-only EROFS file-system is no longer treading its FSDAX support as experimental...
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      www.phoronix.com /news/EROFS-FSDAX-Not-Experimental

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      Reverse-Engineered Rockchip NPU Driver Hitting Same Performance As Proprietary Driver

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix · 10:16

    Open-source developer Tomeu Vizoso recently began the effort of creating an open-source, reverse-engineered driver for the Rockchip NPU found in some of the latest Rockchip SoCs. After succeeding at open-source NPU driver support for the VeriSilicon NPU IP, Vizoso took up the challenge of working on Rockchip NPU support. With his open-source user-space driver he's already got his first model running. Not only is it running but it's doing so at similar performance to the proprietary driver...
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      www.phoronix.com /news/Rockchip-NPU-Early-Success

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      Google Cloud's C3D Instances Provide Strong Performance Value For PingCAP's TiDB

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix · 09:00

    Some time ago I ran through a number of benchmarks of Google Cloud's C3D VMs powered by AMD EPYC Genoa processors. The AMD EPYC 9004 series showed terrific performance with strong generational improvements over the Intel Xeon Scalable processors. Following that a request came in to examine the PingCAP TiDB database performance given its growing popularity. In this article we'll review those benchmarks showing how GCE C3D delivers strong performance advantages for TiDB.
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      www.phoronix.com /review/google-cloud-c3d-tidb