Linux 6.7 Perf Adds Support For Zen 4 Unified Memory Controller Events

Going back to early last year saw AMD Linux engineers posting PerfMonV2 patches in preparation for Zen 4 processors. The PerfMonV2 updated performance monitoring capabilities with Zen 4 were merged last year and are supported with the latest EPYC 8004/9004 series processors. Coming only now though to Linux 6.7 is support for Unified Memory Controller (UMC) events as part o…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.7-Perf-Events

Open-Source AMD OpenSIL Continues Making Progress To Eventually Replace AGESA

Back at the OCP Summit in Prague earlier this year AMD detailed openSIL for advancing open-source system firmware by opening up the CPU siliccon initialization process. An update was provided at the OCP San Jose event in October around the AMD OpenSIL effort...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-OpenSIL-Autumn-2023

More FUTEX2 Bits Land In The Linux 6.7 Kernel

Last week's locking set of changes for the Linux 6.7 kernel add new interfaces for the FUTEX2 system call ABI. This work is making FUTEX2 more extendable and addressing some of the prior limitations...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.7-Locking-FUTEX2

Mesa 24.0 Gets Asahi AGX Gallium3D To OpenGL 3.3 For Apple Silicon Hardware

A set of 53 patches were upstreamed on Monday for syncing Mesa 24.0-devel against the latest Asahi AGX Gallium3D driver changes carried by Asahi Linux. This in turn is a big push for getting more of the open-source OpenGL functionality into Mesa for enjoying Linux on Apple M1 and M2 hardware...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-24.0-Asahi-OpenGL-3.3

IO_uring FUTEX Support In Linux 6.7 For A Nice Performance/Efficiency Boost

In addition to the continued FUTEX2 improvements that landed in Linux 6.7, another pull request merged last week for the new kernel bring FUTEX support to IO_uring...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/IO_uring-FUTEX-Linux-6.7

Fedora Linux 39 Released As A Wonderful Upgrade For Leading Workstations & Servers

While delayed by several weeks compared to their initial release goals, today marks the availability of Fedora 39 as a wonderful upgrade to this popular Linux distribution...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-39-Released