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https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Fast-CPPC-Linux-Patches | AMD Enabling "Fast CPPC" For Even Greater Linux Performance & Power Efficiency On Some CPUs | Michael Larabel | While AMD Zen 4 processors whether it be the Ryzen 7000/8000 desktop/mobile series or EPYC 8004/9004 series server processors are already performing very well on Linux and with great power efficiency against the competition as shown in dozens of Phoronix articles at this point, it turns out there's been a minor power/p... | 12 | 1,760,718,924.998322 |
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GCC-14-Adds-GFX90C-GPU | GCC 14 Adds "GFX90C" For OpenMP Offloading To APUs With GFX9/Vega Graphics | Michael Larabel | As the last feature patch prior to the GCC 14 compiler code being branched today and GCC 15 opening up on the mainline codebase, AMD GFX90C support was merged for enabling GPU OpenMP device offloading to the numerous AMD SoCs/APUs with the GFX9/Vega graphics.
Frederik Harwath contributed the patch for enabling the AMD... | 16 | 1,760,718,925.131434 |
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-P-State-Enhancements-11 | AMD Prepping Fixes & Enhancements For P-State CPUFreq Driver | Michael Larabel | The AMD P-State CPU frequency scaling driver for Zen 2 and newer processors has been working out well in its roughly two years of being in the mainline Linux kernel. The AMD P-State driver has helped with ensuring modern Ryzen systems are delivering optimal performance and power efficiency. Recently AMD Linux engineer... | 3 | 1,760,718,926.067218 |
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Zen-5-More-Family-26-Models | New AMD Linux Patch Acknowledges More Zen 5 CPU Models | Michael Larabel | A new AMD Linux kernel patch queued today via "x86/urgent" for routing into the Linux 6.9 development kernel expands the range of recognized CPU model IDs for upcoming Zen 5 processors.
AMD Linux engineers have been busy working on "Family 26" (1Ah) enablement that will serve at least for Zen 5 processors and potential... | 0 | 1,760,718,926.890403 |
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-SEV-SNP-Hypervisor-v14 | AMD SEV-SNP Hypervisor Support Nears The Mainline Linux Kernel | Michael Larabel | AMD's upstreaming effort around Secure Encrypted Virtualization Secure Nested Paging (SEV-SNP) to the mainline Linux kernel appears to be nearly wrapped up with the latest hypervisor patches now at their fourteenth revision.
While AMD has maintained an out-of-tree kernel repository on GitHub with all of their latest S... | 0 | 1,760,718,927.136991 |
https://www.phoronix.com/news/SolidRun-Bedrock-R8000 | SolidRun Launches Bedrock R8000 As First Industrial PCs With Ryzen Embedded 8000 Series | Michael Larabel | Following the launch last week of the AMD Ryzen Embedded 8000 Series, SolidRun today announced the Bedrock R8000 as the first industrial PCs designed around these new Ryzen Embedded 8000 series SoCs.
The Bedrock R8000 industrial PCs feature the Ryzen Embedded 8000 series processors featuring Ryzen AI plus can be paired... | 4 | 1,760,718,928.4124 |
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Versal-Gen-2-Adaptive-SoC | AMD Announces Versal Gen 2 Adaptive SoCs - AI Focused & Newer Arm Cores | Michael Larabel | AMD is using the Embedded World conference in Bavaria for today introducing their Versal Series Gen 2 SoCs for AI-driven embedded systems. Today's embargo lift covers the Versal AI Edge Series Gen 2 and Versal Prime Series Gen 2 Adaptive SoCs.
The new AMD Versal Gen 2 SoCs aim to provide up to 3x higher TOPs per Watt t... | 8 | 1,760,718,929.19482 |
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Ryzen-Embedded-8000-Series | AMD Announces Ryzen Embedded 8000 Series With Focus On Industrial AI | Michael Larabel | AMD today announced the Ryzen Embedded 8000 series processors -- their first AMD embedded chips to offer Ryzen AI with the onboard Neural Processing Unit (NPU). This AMD XDNA NPU support is similar to the existing Ryzen AI on the Ryzen 8000 series.
The Ryzen Embedded 8000 Series make use of Zen 4 cores and will be ava... | 22 | 1,760,718,929.496223 |
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-SRSO-Inception-Fixes-2024 | Linux Fixes Botched SRSO Mitigation For AMD Zen 3 / Zen 4 | Michael Larabel | Disclosed last August was the AMD Inception vulnerability also known as SRSO for the Speculative Return Stack Overflow. The kernel-side patches for the AMD SRSO mitigation were quickly merged. Following that were more clean-ups and fixes to the SRSO mitigation code. It's been a quiet few months since while merged on Fr... | 19 | 1,760,718,930.394596 |
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Linux-Highlights-2024-Q1 | AMD XDNA Linux Driver For Ryzen AI, Zen 5 Compiler Support & Other AMD Q1 Highlights | Michael Larabel | With the first quarter drawing to a close, here's a recap of the most exciting AMD Linux/open-source news from the quarter. During the past three months we've seen AMD finally publish their XDNA Linux driver for open-source Ryzen AI support, their open-source HDMI driver efforts were sadly rejected by the HDMI Forum, t... | 0 | 1,760,718,930.757906 |
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GCC-AMDGCN-GFX1103-RDNA3-APUs | GCC Compiler Adds Support For Device Offloading With AMD RDNA3 APUs (GFX1103) | Michael Larabel | While there is AOMP for OpenMP device offloading based on the LLVM/Clang compiler, less talked about and not as feature-rich is the AMDGCN back-end within the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) that is also worked on for OpenMP device offloading capabilities to Radeon GPUs. Squeezing in for the upcoming GCC 14.1 stable rele... | 2 | 1,760,718,931.415864 |
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Zen-5-Znver5-Merged-GCC14 | AMD Zen 5 "Znver5" CPU Enablement Merged For GCC 14 | Michael Larabel | Back in February AMD posted GCC compiler enablement support for Zen 5 with the new "znver5" target ahead of launch. Since then it's been rather quiet and nervous not seeing this support merged ahead of the upcoming GCC 14 stable release, but this morning it's finally happened: the AMD Zen 5 processor enablement has bee... | 6 | 1,760,718,932.256434 |
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Core-Performance-Boost-6 | AMD Posts Updated Linux Patches For P-State Core Performance Boost | Michael Larabel | While AMD P-State driver's Preferred Core support was merged for Linux 6.9, another notable addition to this driver is still undergoing the patch review process: Core Performance Boost.
AMD with the Linux kernel has previously ensured Core Performance Boost gets enabled statically while this recent effort allows for r... | 8 | 1,760,718,932.985053 |
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-HIP-Ray-Tracing-RT-Open | AMD Makes HIP Ray-Tracing Open-Source | Michael Larabel | AMD's HIP Ray-Tracing library "HIP RT" has been one of the few projects under the GPUOpen umbrella that starts off as closed-source software but then is eventually open-sourced... That happened now with the HIP ray-tracing code becoming publicly available.
AMD announced their ray-tracing library code for easily writin... | 7 | 1,760,718,934.036013 |
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-24.04-AMD-EPYC-9004 | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS To Help Further Boost AMD EPYC 9004 Series Performance | Michael Larabel | With the upgraded Linux kernel, compiler, and other software upgrades with next month's Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, those using recent AMD EPYC server processors like the 4th Gen EPYC Genoa(X) / Bergamo / Siena processors stand to benefit from greater performance over the current Ubuntu 22.04 LTS release.
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS is us... | 1 | 1,760,718,934.971908 |
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Linux-Too-Much-NMI | Too Many Debug Messages Were Reportedly Slowing Down Some AMD Linux Systems | Michael Larabel | An interesting anecdote was mentioned as part of the x86/misc changes queued for the Linux 6.9 kernel: on some unnamed AMD systems, NMI debug messages were too excessive that they actually slowed down the systems.
There are just a few patches for the x86/misc pull request for the Linux 6.9 merge window. The mentioned ... | 11 | 1,760,718,936.084454 |
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-P-State-Preferred-Core-69 | AMD P-State Preferred Core Submitted For Linux 6.9 While Intel Meteor Lake Gets Tuned | Michael Larabel | The in-development Linux 6.9 kernel is finally landing support for AMD Preferred Core as part of the power management updates for this mid-2024 kernel release.
Since AMD Zen 2 has been the notion of "preferred cores" exposed via ACPI CPPC for CPU cores capable of reaching a higher maximum frequency, which is all the m... | 2 | 1,760,718,937.063665 |
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-EPYC-SEV-SNP-CoCo | AMD With Upstream Linux Nears "The Ultimate Goal Of Confidential Computing" | Michael Larabel | More AMD SEV-SNP bits are upstreamed now for the in-development Linux 6.9 kernel that is putting the EPYC processor support on the mainline kernel trajectory for "the ultimate goal of the AMD confidential computing side" to hopefully be in great shape come Linux 6.10 later in the year.
Last week all of the AMD Secure E... | 6 | 1,760,718,937.392385 |
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Zen-5-Perf-Monitoring-Patch | AMD Posts Performance Monitoring Patches For Zen 5 CPUs | Michael Larabel | While Linux 6.8 carries some elements of Zen 5 CPU support, more upstream Linux enablement for the next-generation AMD processors remains ongoing. Sent out this morning were the initial patches around AMD Zen 5 performance monitoring and events for the perf subsystem.
AMD posted the various JSON files needed for the P... | 0 | 1,760,718,938.105297 |
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-P-State-TRX40-Linux-6.9 | Linux 6.9 To Allow AMD P-State With ACPI CPPC V2 For Threadripper 3000 Series CPUs | Michael Larabel | The AMD P-State CPU frequency scaling driver works with Zen 2 and newer processors supporting ACPI Collaborative Processor Performance Controls (CPPC) but to date this hasn't worked for Threadripper 3000 series processors with the TRX40 chipset. That though is finally being fixed up with Linux 6.9 thanks to a one-line ... | 8 | 1,760,718,938.966636 |
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.9-x86-CPU | x86/cpu Change For Linux 6.9 Slightly Eases Future AMD Zen CPU Enablement | Michael Larabel | A number of x86-related pull requests were already submitted today for kicking off the new Linux 6.9 merge window. With the x86/cpu pull for this new kernel cycle there is just one patch and it's for slightly easing future AMD Zen processor enablement under Linux.
The patch by AMD Linux engineer Borislav Petkov moves t... | 1 | 1,760,718,939.072078 |
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-MP2-STB-Suspend-Resume | Improved Debugging Of Suspend/Resume For AMD Ryzen Laptops On Linux Coming With MP2 STB | Michael Larabel | AMD engineers and those debugging s2idle suspend/resume issues for Ryzen laptops under Linux will soon have more information at disposal for newer SoCs supporting MP2 STB functionality.
AMD Linux engineers have been working on wiring up the AMD PMC driver to support MP2 Smart Trace Buffer (STB) functionality. MP2 STB ... | 2 | 1,760,718,939.903856 |
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Lisa-Su-Tweet-OSS-Firmware | Lisa Su Says The "Team Is On It" After Tweet About Open-Source AMD GPU Firmware | Michael Larabel | George Hotz with Tiny Corp that is working on Tinygrad and TinyBox for interesting developments in the open-source AI space has previously called out AMD over ROCm issues. Yesterday yielded new tweets by "the tiny corp" over AI training runs crashing with MES errors and then called for AMD open-sourcing the firmware to... | 38 | 1,760,718,940.910372 |
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Spartan-UltraScale-Plus | AMD Announces Spartan UltraScale+ FPGA Family | Michael Larabel | For those interested in FPGAs, AMD today unveiled the Spartan UltraScale+ FPGA product family with hardware coming in 2025.
The AMD Spartan UltraScale+ FPGA is optimized for edge use, relies on 16nm FinFET tech, supports up to 26 Mb of on-chip memory, PCIe Gen4 x8, LPDDR4x/5 memory support up to 4266 Mb/s, and is the f... | 2 | 1,760,718,941.929133 |
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-ROCm-Blog-Platform | AMD's Latest ROCm Effort: More Blogging With A New Blog Platform | Michael Larabel | As many enthusiasts wait to hear from AMD more broadly supporting ROCm in an official capacity across consumer Radeon GPUs and/or hearing about better supporting more Linux distributions outside of the major enterprise Linux distributions, today AMD announced a new medium for their communications with the community: th... | 29 | 1,760,718,942.860941 |
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.9-AMD-MI300-EDAC | Linux 6.9 Adding AMD MI300 Row Retirement Support For Problematic HBM Memory | Michael Larabel | For the upcoming Linux 6.9 kernel cycle there are a number of AMD Instinct MI300 additions to the EDAC (Error Detection And Correction) and RAS (Reliability, Availability and Serviceability) drivers.
This work includes adapting the AMD EDAC driver to use the AMD Address Translation Library, MI300 support for that ATL ... | 34 | 1,760,718,944.151572 |
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Zen-5-Znver-5-GCC | AMD Zen 5 Compiler Support Posted For GCC - Confirms New AVX Features & More | Michael Larabel | Making for a very exciting Saturday morning, AMD just posted their initial enablement patch for plumbing Zen 5 processor support "znver5" into the GNU Compiler Collection! With GCC 14 due to be released as stable in March~April as usual for the annual compiler release, it's been frustrating to see no Zen 5 support even... | 28 | 1,760,718,945.415786 |
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-FRU-Memory-Poison-Manager | AMD Introducing FRU Memory Poison Manager In Linux 6.9 | Michael Larabel | Queued for introduction in the upcoming Linux 6.9 kernel cycle is an FRU Memory Poison Manager "FMPM" developed by AMD that may later be adapted for other non-AMD platforms. The FRU Memory Poison Manager is working to persist information around known bad/faulty memory across reboots.
As noted previously AMD has been w... | 14 | 1,760,718,945.931183 |
https://www.phoronix.com/news/2024-AMD-OSS-Firmware-State | The 2024 State Of Open-Source AMD Firmware | Michael Larabel | Last year at FOSDEM 2023 there was a presentation on the state of AMD open-source firmware and since then a lot has changed from the AMD openSIL announcement to new platforms being in the process of being enabled. At FOSDEM 2024 this past weekend in Brussels was a fresh look at the current state of AMD open-source firm... | 11 | 1,760,718,946.539454 |
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.9-More-AMD-SEV-SNP | More AMD SEV-SNP Support To Be Upstreamed For Linux 6.9 | Michael Larabel | More of AMD's Secure Encrypted Virtualization Secure Nested Paging (SEV-SNP) support for memory encrypted VMs is set to make it upstream for the Linux 6.9 kernel coming out toward the middle of the year.
In addition to AMD P-State Preferred Core, more Zen 5 enablement, and other new bits on the way for both the CPU an... | 0 | 1,760,718,947.571079 |
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDGPU-ROCm-Debugging-GDB | AMD's Work On Upstreaming AMDGPU/ROCm Debugging Support Into GDB | Michael Larabel | The AMD ROCm Debugger "ROCgdb" is maintained as a fork of the GNU Debugger (GDB) with support added for the heterogeneous debugging of the ROCm compute platform. ROCgdb works well and is distributed as part of the ROCM stack. The good news is that AMD is also working on getting this AMDGPU/ROCm debug support added into... | 0 | 1,760,718,947.648439 |
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.9-AMD-P-State-Preferred | AMD P-State Preferred Core Support Coming With Linux 6.9 | Michael Larabel | Since last August AMD Linux engineers have been working on P-State Preferred Core support for the "amd_pstate" driver so that this functionality can be leveraged under Linux for improved task placement.
Since Zen 2 there has been the notion of "preferred cores" that are expressed via ACPI CPPC for CPU cores that are ca... | 11 | 1,760,718,948.595687 |
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-P-State-Threadripper-3000 | AMD P-State Linux Driver Gets Fixed Up For Threadripper 3000 Series CPUs | Michael Larabel | The AMD P-State CPU frequency scaling driver for improved thermal/power/performance behavior under Linux works for Zen 2 and newer systems where the platform exposes ACPI Collaborative Processor Performance Controls (CPPC) support. There's been a caveat though of the "amd_pstate" driver having issues for the Zen2-based... | 1 | 1,760,718,949.683719 |
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-ROCm-6.0.2-MI300 | AMD Releases ROCm 6.0.2 With Improved Stability For Instinct MI300 Series | Michael Larabel | AMD on Wednesday evening released ROCm 6.0.2 as the newest point release to their open-source compute stack.
AMD announced ROCm 6.0 at their big December AI event and then released it mid-December. ROCm 6.0.2 was released to close out January and mainly consists of various bug fixes.
With the big focus on ROCm 6.0 be... | 27 | 1,760,718,950.34723 |
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-x86_energy_perf_policy | Linux's x86_energy_perf_policy Utility Being Extended To AMD CPUs | Michael Larabel | For AMD Zen 2 and newer systems making use of the modern AMD P-State driver on Linux for CPU frequency scaling, ACPI Collaborative Processor Performance Control (CPPC) interface is being used. For managing the ACPI CPPC energy performance preference (EPP), Intel's x86_energy_perf_policy utility is now being extended to... | 5 | 1,760,718,950.826801 |
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Radeon-R300g-Comp-Lowering | Radeon R300 Open-Source Driver Continues Seeing New Improvements In 2024 | Michael Larabel | As I wrote about at the start of January, the open-source ATI Radeon R300 Linux graphics driver continues seeing new improvements even all these years later thanks to the open-source community. This wasn't some one-off work either in 2024 for this R300 to R500 GPU OpenGL driver but more work has since landed.
Thanks t... | 17 | 1,760,718,951.764193 |
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.8-More-Zen-5-And-PMF | Linux 6.8-rc2 Adds More Zen 5 IDs, AMD PMF Will Know If You're In Front Of Your Laptop | Michael Larabel | New code submitted for the ongoing Linux 6.8 cycle are some AMD additions now set for premiering in today's Linux 6.8-rc2 release.
First up, sent out today as x86/urgent material are adding detection for more AMD Zen 5 CPUs. The Linux kernel recently began tracking the CPUs as Zen 5 with the "X86_FEATURE_ZEN5" with va... | 34 | 1,760,718,951.96389 |
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-XDNA-Linux-Driver-Ryzen-AI | AMD Publishes XDNA Linux Driver: Support For Ryzen AI On Linux | Michael Larabel | With the AMD Ryzen 7040 series "Ryzen AI" was introduced as leveraging Xilinx IP onboard the new Zen 4 mobile processors. Ryzen AI is beginning to work its way out to more processors while it hasn't been supported on Linux. Then in October was AMD wanting to hear from customer requests around Ryzen AI Linux support. We... | 42 | 1,760,718,953.224161 |
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Core-Perf-Boost-Linux | AMD Core Performance Boost Patches Posted For P-State Linux Driver | Michael Larabel | While not quite as exciting as yesterday's AMD XDNA driver publishing for Ryzen AI on Linux, a notable patch series out of AMD today on the Linux front is enabling AMD Core Performance Boost controls within their P-State CPU frequency scaling driver.
This patch series is about allowing Core Performance Boost to be con... | 8 | 1,760,718,954.2702 |
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AOMP-18.0-1-Compiler | AMD Releases AOMP 18.0-1 Compiler Based On ROCm 6.0, Defaults To -O2 Optimizations | Michael Larabel | As the first new tagged version of AMD's AOMP LLVM-based OpenMP-focused compiler for offloading to their Instinct / Radeon GPUs, AOMP 18.0-1 was released today with many changes.
AOMP is AMD's LLVM downstream focused on providing the latest OpenMP device offloading support to their hardware ahead of the relevant patch... | 1 | 1,760,718,954.713147 |
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-P-State-Preferred-Core-13 | AMD P-State Preferred Core Support For Linux Tried A 13th Time | Michael Larabel | One of the features sadly not having made it in time for the Linux v6.8 kernel merge window is the AMD P-State Preferred Core support. This is about being able to properly communicate to the kernel and scheduler about "preferred cores" such as cases of some CPU cores having higher maximum frequencies or better performa... | 20 | 1,760,718,955.850097 |
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.8-Perf-Tools | Linux 6.8 Perf Tools Add Support For AMD Zen 4 Memory Controller Events | Michael Larabel | The tooling changes around the perf subsystem have been submitted for the Linux 6.8 kernel merge window and provide some new hardware features and other new perf profiling capabilities.
The perf tool changes with Linux 6.8 allow associating samples that identify loads and stores with particular data structures, initia... | 0 | 1,760,718,955.93245 |
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.8-AMD-Optimization-CPU | Linux 6.8 Picks Up AMD CPU Optimization To Avoid Unnecessarily Serializing MSR Accesses | Michael Larabel | The x86 CPU pull request is ready for the Linux 6.8 kernel and besides adding new AMD Zen feature flags easily isolating different CPU generations, there is also an AMD CPU optimization to avoid an unnecessary MFENCE+LFENCE barrier.
The Linux x86/x86_64 kernel has imposed an MFENCE and LFENCE synchronization barrier w... | 3 | 1,760,718,957.078374 |
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-MicroBlaze-V-Linux-6.8 | Linux 6.8 To Add Support For The AMD MicroBlaze V Soft-Core RISC-V Processor | Michael Larabel | A few months back AMD announced the MicroBlaze V processor as a soft-core RISC-V processor for embedded system use. With Linux 6.8 the necessary DeviceTree support is landing for the AMD MicroBlaze V.
This soft-core implementation of a RISC-V processor from AMD is compatible with the AMD-Xilinx Vivado and Vitis toolin... | 5 | 1,760,718,958.273331 |
https://www.phoronix.com/news/System76-Thelio-Zen-4-AMD-TR | System76 Thelio Ramps Up AI & Creator Performance With New AMD Ryzen Threadripper CPUs | Michael Larabel | System76 has opted to offer new AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7000 series processors in their Thelio Major desktop line-up to provide for greater performance from AI and creator workloads to all common code compilation and other tasks leveraging many CPU cores/threads. The new System76 Thelio Major powered by Zen 4 Threadripp... | 37 | 1,760,718,958.336204 |
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Ryzen-Firefox-Linux-Fix | Linux Could Experience Unexpected System Reboots When Pairing AMD Ryzen With Firewire | Michael Larabel | In the land of odd hardware bugs and interesting Linux kernel behavior, a fix was merged today for Linux 6.7 and to be back-ported to existing stable kernel series for dealing with a situation where unexpected system reboots could happen primarily on AMD Ryzen systems when using Firewire (IEEE-1394).
Firewire thankful... | 32 | 1,760,718,959.391883 |
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Zen-5-Is-1Ah-Patch | New Linux Patch Officially Confirms AMD Family 26 As Being Zen 5 CPUs | Michael Larabel | AMD's open-source Linux software engineers continue preparing the Linux kernel for supporting next-generation Zen 5 processors.
Going back to last July there were Linux kernel patches referencing new Family 26 (Family "1Ah") processors that we assumed at the time were for Zen 5 given how AMD typically handles their f... | 13 | 1,760,718,959.953475 |
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Ryzen-Embedded-V2000A | AMD Announces Automotive-Grade Ryzen Embedded V2000A Series | Michael Larabel | Ahead of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) next week in Las Vegas, AMD announced today the Versal AI Edge XA Adaptive SoC and the Ryzen Embedded V2000A Series processor. The Ryzen Embedded V2000A is an x86 automotive-qualified processor family for next-generation automotive digital cockpits. Given the automotive/embe... | 26 | 1,760,718,960.87222 |
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Address-Translation-Library | AMD Address Translation Library "ATL" Coming With Linux 6.8 | Michael Larabel | The AMD Address Translation Library (ATL) is cleaning up and centralizing existing code within the Linux kernel for Zen-based systems. After being reviewed on the kernel mailing list, the AMD ATL is set to be introduced as part of the upcoming Linux 6.8 kernel cycle.
The AMD Address Translation Library itself isn't som... | 4 | 1,760,718,962.029837 |
https://www.phoronix.com/news/FPGA-User-Space-Interface-AMD | AMD Proposes An FPGA Subsystem User-Space Interface For Linux | Michael Larabel | AMD engineers are proposing an FPGA Subsystem User-Space Interface to overcome current limitations of the Linux kernel's FPGA manager subsystem.
AMD-Xilinx engineers are proposing a new sysfs interface for the FPGA subsystem that allows for more user-space control over FPGAs. The suggested interface would handle FPGA c... | 8 | 1,760,718,962.175587 |
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Linux-News-2023 | AMD CPU Use By Linux Gamers At ~70%, AMD openSIL, & AMD Laptops Topped 2023 | Michael Larabel | As part of the various end-of-year Phoronix articles, here's a look back at the most popular AMD Linux/open-source news stories and reviews of 2023.
On the AMD Linux front there was much to be excited about from the continued open-source driver work across not only their CPU and GPU portfolios but growing array of othe... | 26 | 1,760,718,963.2279 |
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-PMC-Patches-Zen-5 | AMD PMC Linux Driver Being Updated For Zen 5 CPUs | Michael Larabel | One of the big milestones we are looking forward to in 2024 is the introduction of AMD Zen 5 processors. AMD Linux engineers have in recent months begun getting ready for those next-generation processors that look like will be Family 26 (1Ah) processors. We've been seeing more of the AMD "1Ah" patches and some more wer... | 4 | 1,760,718,964.397718 |
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-EOY-2023-SEV-SNP-Continues | AMD Ends Out 2023 Still Working To Get The Rest Of SEV-SNP Upstream In Linux | Michael Larabel | This New Year's weekend brought the latest AMD patches working on plumbing the mainline Linux kernel with the hypervisor support around AMD Secure Nested Paging (SNP) as part of their Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV). SEV-SNP has been supported since EPYC 7003 series and while some elements of the support have bee... | 1 | 1,760,718,964.701338 |
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-PMF-Policy-Binary-Linux-6.8 | AMD PMF Policy Binary Support Queued For Linux 6.8 | Michael Larabel | As part of AMD's Platform Management Framework (PMF) and working on new Ryzen features like the Smart PC Solutions Builder, a set of patches are queued up ahead of the Linux 6.8 kernel cycle support for policy binary support with the PMF driver.
The AMD PMF Policy Binary support has been queued into the platform-drive... | 0 | 1,760,718,965.300705 |
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Framework-13-AMD-Lid-Suspend | Framework 13 AMD Workaround Prepared For Linux To Deal With A Suspend Issue | Michael Larabel | A quirk has been discovered with the AMD-powered Framework 13 inch laptop where if a user closes the laptop's lid on an already-suspended system, the system will wake up. A set of Linux kernel patches are on the way to workaround this issue.
The AMD Ryzen 7040 series powered Framework 13 is quite a nice laptop and wor... | 7 | 1,760,718,967.131666 |
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-New-SoCs-With-ACPI-PHAT | It Looks Like AMD Zen 5 SoCs Will Support ACPI PHAT | Michael Larabel | A few months ago I wrote about AMD Linux engineers working on ACPI PHAT support for the Linux kernel. This week new patches around Linux ACPI PHAT handling have been posted with further confirmation of this functionality coming to "future" AMD SoCs.
ACPI PHAT is for the Platform Health Assessment Table and is a means ... | 2 | 1,760,718,968.309643 |
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-WBRF-For-Linux-6.8 | AMD WBRF Ready For Linux 6.8 To Mitigate WiFi Radio Interference | Michael Larabel | Since earlier this year AMD has been working on Linux support for WBRF for mitigating WiFi radio frequency interference (RFI) with their latest Ryzen 7000 and forthcoming Ryzen 8000 series mobile processors. That work looks like it will be ready to land in Linux 6.8.
AMD WBRF is similar to Intel's RFI mitigation work c... | 4 | 1,760,718,969.796477 |
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-QoS-RMID-Pinning-ABMC | AMD Posts Linux Patches For QoS RMID Pinning / ABMC | Michael Larabel | One of the latest Linux kernel patch series posted by AMD Linux engineers is for enabling an AMD QoS RMID pinning feature found within their latest generation processors.
AMD QoS RMID Pinning is perhaps better known and more descriptive by its other name, Assignable Bandwidth Monitoring Counters (ABMC). The new AMD ke... | 0 | 1,760,718,970.932694 |
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-P-State-Preferred-Core | AMD Posts 11th Iteration Of P-State Preferred Core Patches For Linux | Michael Larabel | For the past number of months AMD has been actively working on enabling AMD P-State Preferred Core functionality for Linux so that their modern processors can communicate "preferred" cores to the Linux kernel scheduler for making better decisions around task placement and ultimately ensuring best performance of Ryzen a... | 18 | 1,760,718,972.101843 |
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.8-AMD-No-Serialize-MSR | AMD Has A Nice Performance Optimization Coming With Linux 6.8 | Michael Larabel | Queued up into tip/tip.git's x86/cpu branch ahead of the Linux 6.8 merge window opening in a month is an optimization that should prove helpful in cloud/VM scenarios.
The change slated to be introduced in Linux 6.8 is for not serializing model-specific register (MSR) accesses on AMD (and Zen 1 derived Hygon) processors... | 8 | 1,760,718,973.361743 |
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-1-Wire-Driver | AMD AXI 1-Wire Driver Queued Ahead Of The Linux 6.8 Kernel | Michael Larabel | Narrowly missing the Linux 6.7 merge window that closed last week is the AMD 1-Wire "AXI" driver but it's now on tap for the Linux 6.8 kernel in the new year.
Queued this week as the first of new 1-Wire subsystem material for post-6.7 is the AMD 1-Wire driver. As I wrote about a month ago, the AXI 1-wire driver is the... | 2 | 1,760,718,974.607918 |
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Advancing-AI-Open | AMD Talking Up Open-Source & Open Standards Ahead Of "Advancing AI" Event | Michael Larabel | On 14 December is the previously-announced launch of 5th Gen Xeon Scalable "Emerald Rapids" and Intel Core Ultra "Meteor Lake" processors via a webcast from NASDAQ that Intel is promoting as the "AI Everywhere" event. AMD meanwhile recently announced an "Advancing AI" event for the week prior. While details on the AMD ... | 20 | 1,760,718,976.110679 |
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-6-More-EPYC-Milan | AMD Releases Six New EPYC 7003 "Milan" Processors | Michael Larabel | While there is now the 4th Gen EPYC processors with the exciting and vast line-up from the very powerful general purpose Genoa(X) processors and Bergamo for CSPs and very dense servers to Siena for telco/edge, the 3rd Gen EPYC "Milan(X)" processors remain very viable. Especially for those seeking to minimize hardware c... | 2 | 1,760,718,977.34797 |
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-AXI-1W-Linux-6.8 | AMD AXI 1-Wire Host Driver Submitted For Linux 6.8 | Michael Larabel | While the Linux 6.7 release is being pushed back by one week due to the holidays and in turn the Linux 6.8 merge window not officially opening until 8 January, some pull requests do end up getting submitted early. The 1-wire bus driver changes for Linux 6.8 were sent out this week and most notably includes adding the A... | 0 | 1,760,718,977.559382 |
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-OpenSIL-Autumn-2023 | Open-Source AMD OpenSIL Continues Making Progress To Eventually Replace AGESA | Michael Larabel | Back at the OCP Summit in Prague earlier this year AMD detailed openSIL for advancing open-source system firmware by opening up the CPU silicon initialization process. An update was provided at the OCP San Jose event in October around the AMD OpenSIL effort.
AMD OpenSIL since its initial open-source publishing earlier ... | 9 | 1,760,718,978.498761 |
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.7-Perf-Events | Linux 6.7 Perf Adds Support For Zen 4 Unified Memory Controller Events | Michael Larabel | 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 suppo... | 0 | 1,760,718,979.144499 |
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Inception-Cleaning-Linux-67 | AMD Inception / SRSO Mitigation Further Cleaned Up With Linux 6.7 | Michael Larabel | Since the AMD Inception vulnerability was made public in August there were kernel patches merged that day and since then there's been a few rounds of clean-ups and fixes for this mitigation code formally known as the Speculative Return Stack Overflow (SRSO). With Linux 6.7, more SRSO mitigation clean-ups have been merg... | 0 | 1,760,718,979.758507 |
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.7-Instinct-MI300A | Linux 6.7 Makes More Preparations For The AMD Instinct MI300A APUs | Michael Larabel | While there has already been various open-source Linux driver upstreaming work around the AMD Instinct MI300 series both for the MI300X GPU-only solution and the MI300A APU-based accelerator, for Linux 6.7 more work is happening.
As a reminder, earlier this year AMD announced the Instinct MI300 APUs that are a combinat... | 1 | 1,760,718,981.111926 |
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Versal-EDAC | AMD Versal EDAC Driver Submitted For Linux 6.7 | Michael Larabel | While the Linux 6.6 kernel isn't set to be released until later today, over the weekend a number of early pull requests were submitted of new material for the Linux 6.7 merge window. Among those early PRs were for the Error Detection and Correction (EDAC) area of the kernel.
Borislav Petkov sent out the early EDAC upd... | 0 | 1,760,718,982.095928 |
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-HIP-RT-2.1 | AMD Releases HIP RT 2.1 For Radeon Ray-Tracing | Michael Larabel | AMD today announced the release of HIP RT 2.1, the newest version of its HIP ray-tracing library for use by Blender and other software.
HIP RT 2.1 brings batch construction for small geometries, transformation query functions, an optimized radix sort in Orochi, various ray-tracing performance optimizations, an option ... | 5 | 1,760,718,983.286426 |
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Ryzen-7000-Linux-6.5 | 9-Way AMD Ryzen 7000 Series Benchmarks On Linux 6.5 / Ubuntu 23.10 | Michael Larabel | For those currently weighing between the (currently) nine different AMD Ryzen 7000 series processors for Linux use, here are fresh benchmarks of the Zen 4 desktop CPU line-up while testing with Ubuntu 23.10 and the Linux 6.5 kernel.
As I've shown in several articles, Linux 6.5 improves the performance for Ryzen CPUs wi... | 14 | 1,760,718,984.516992 |
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.7-x86-cpu-AMD-SVM | /proc/cpuinfo Will No Longer Show AMD SVM When It's Been Disabled By The BIOS | Michael Larabel | The x86/cpu changes for the Linux 6.7 kernel have been merged and is highlighted by a small but useful change for propagating of the AMD SVM virtualization feature flag to /proc/cpuinfo.
On Intel systems when virtualization is enabled it can be easily checked via the CPU feature flags in /proc/cpuinfo. It's that way t... | 2 | 1,760,718,984.771241 |
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-AXI-1-Wire-Linux-Driver | AXI 1-Wire Driver Is AMD's Latest Upstreaming Effort To The Linux Kernel | Michael Larabel | Since AMD's acquisition of Xilinx and working to broaden the portfolio of offerings for the data center, more AMD-Xilinx drivers have been working their way toward the mainline Linux kernel. There's been upstreaming efforts such as the Versal EDAC driver, generating DeviceTree nodes for PCI devices, Versal watchdog dri... | 5 | 1,760,718,985.672898 |
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ryzen-AI-For-Linux-Requests | AMD Wants To Know If You'd Like Ryzen AI Support On Linux | Michael Larabel | With the newest AMD Ryzen 7040 series laptops there is "Ryzen AI" as a dedicated AI engine based on Xilinx IP to help accelerate machine learning with the likes of PyTorch and TensorFlow. Sadly though this Ryzen AI with their new Zen 4 laptops is only supported under Microsoft Windows at this point. But it could change... | 152 | 1,760,718,986.251241 |
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Nod.ai-Completes | AMD Completes Nod.ai Acquisition To Enhance Open-Source AI Capabilities | Michael Larabel | It was just over one week ago that AMD announced plans to acquire Nod.ai to enhance their open-source AI software capabilities. Today already they announced that acquisition has completed.
With Nod.ai being just a small decade old software company, it was an easy acquisition for AMD to close on in little more than one ... | 3 | 1,760,718,986.624155 |
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDKFD-GEM-VA-Integration | AMD Posts Linux Patches For Better Graphics/Compute Interoperability & Other Benefits | Michael Larabel | AMD today posted a set of interesting patches for enabling better integration of their AMDKFD (Kernel Fusion Driver, what is their compute kernel driver) memory management with Linux's DRM GEM ioctl API. In turn the code allows managing virtual address (VA) mappings in compute VMs with the GEM_VA ioctl interface for gr... | 3 | 1,760,718,987.697924 |
https://www.phoronix.com/news/More-AMD-Genoa-In-Coreboot | More AMD EPYC Zen 4 "Genoa" Code Heads Into Coreboot | Michael Larabel | Over the past two weeks there has been a pleasant uptick in new commits to Coreboot as part of enabling EPYC 9004 "Genoa" series platform support.
Back in September was very early Genoa code for Coreboot merged along with the AMD Onyx reference motherboard target. Over the past two weeks has been another push of gettin... | 1 | 1,760,718,988.849757 |
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-AMA-1.0-SDK-Media-Accel | AMD Advanced Media Acceleration "AMA" 1.0 SDK Released | Michael Larabel | AMD has published the Advanced Media Acceleration (AMA) v1.0 SDK as a software stack aimed for hardware video acceleration and capable of high density real-time transcoding. The AMD AMA SDK integrates with the likes of the open-source FFmpeg and GStreamer projects for fitting nicely in the Linux software ecosystem as w... | 10 | 1,760,718,989.814335 |
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Fixes-AMD-Erratum-1485 | Linux Patched For A New AMD Zen 4 CPU Bug - Erratum #1485 | Michael Larabel | Merged today to Linux 6.6 Git is a new patch for fixing an AMD erratum CPU bug affecting Zen 4 based processors like the Ryzen 7000 series and EPYC 8004/9004 series.
Merged to the Linux kernel is a patch adding around a dozen lines of code for fixing a recently uncovered Zen 4 bug. The issue is an undefined instruction... | 13 | 1,760,718,990.835671 |
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Family-19h-2023-10-19 | AMD Family 19h CPU Microcode Updated (2023-10-19 Rev) | Michael Larabel | AMD today published a new CPU microcode revision for Family 19h processors, which include Zen 3 / Zen 3+ / Zen 4 processors. As is sadly standard, no change-log is provided.
AMD Family 19h CPU microcode 2023-10-19 was added today to Linux-Firmware.Git, the de facto location where CPU microcode/firmware binaries are ho... | 11 | 1,760,718,991.354001 |
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Acquires-Nod-AI | AMD Makes A New Open-Source AI Software Acquisition | Michael Larabel | It was just a few weeks ago that AMD acquired AI software company Mipsology to help their AI software efforts on FPGAs. Today AMD announced another notable AI software acquisition: open-source AI software vendor Nod.ai.
AMD is acquiring Nod.ai to gain greater experience in open-source AI software capabilities. The Nod.... | 6 | 1,760,718,991.886105 |
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-P-State-Preferred-Core-v8 | AMD P-State Preferred Core Support For Linux Spun Up An Eighth Time | Michael Larabel | While the AMD P-State driver is working quite well for Ryzen systems already with the default on Linux 6.5, one of the additions we are still waiting to land is the AMD "Preferred Core" functionality. An eighth version of those patches were posted on Monday for inching this feature closer to the mainline kernel.
For s... | 25 | 1,760,718,992.828155 |
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Xilinx-Versal-EDAC-Linux-67 | AMD Versal EDAC Driver Set For Introduction In Linux 6.7 | Michael Larabel | The upcoming Linux 6.7 merge window is set to include a new AMD driver for supporting error detection and correct (EDAC) for their Versal SoCs.
The AMD-Xilinx Versal EDAC driver has been queued into RAS.git's "edac-drivers" branch ahead of the Linux 6.7 merge window opening in a few weeks. This EDAC driver provides th... | 4 | 1,760,718,992.88886 |
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Fix-AMD-Laptop-Resume-USB | Linux Fix Queued For Recent AMD Laptops Failing To Resume From Attached USB Devices | Michael Larabel | A fix has made its way into the Linux PCI subsystem's power management branch to address various AMD Ryzen Rembrandt and Phoenix generation laptops failing to resume from suspend when external USB devices are attached for initiating the system resume.
After going through 22 revisions on the Linux kernel mailing list, t... | 11 | 1,760,718,993.912283 |
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-OpenSIL-Global-OCP-2023 | AMD OpenSIL Will Be Talked About Later This Month At The 2023 OCP Global Summit | Michael Larabel | Earlier this year at the OCP Regional Summit in Prague AMD first presented openSIL as their new open-source CPU silicon initialization effort that can integrate with Coreboot and open-source boot firmware solutions. AMD openSIL is currently being prototyped on Genoa platforms but in a few years will eventually replace ... | 4 | 1,760,718,994.396372 |
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-PMF-Firmware-Published | AMD PMF Firmware Added To Linux-Firmware.Git For Smart PC Solution Builder | Michael Larabel | As written about last month, AMD Linux engineers have been working on PMF Linux driver support for a "Smart PC Solutions Builder". The AMD Smart PC Solutions Builder feature is intended to provide OEMs with more control over system power/performance policies. It looks like systems making use of this feature are already... | 3 | 1,760,718,995.000826 |
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-SVM-Correct-cpuinfo | Linux Will Finally Indicate Via /proc/cpuinfo If AMD SVM Virtualization Is Disabled | Michael Larabel | Checking for the presence of Intel virtualization (VMX) support and it being enabled can be easily achieved by looking at the flags in /proc/cpuinfo. But to this point AMD virtualization (SVM) has always been shown to user-space via /proc/cpuinfo even when the BIOS/platform has disabled SVM functionality. Finally for L... | 0 | 1,760,718,995.883186 |
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Pensando-Elba-Queued | Basic AMD Pensando Elba SoC Support Queued Ahead Of Linux 6.7 | Michael Larabel | The long ongoing saga of upstreaming AMD's Pensando Elba SoC support is now partially over with the initial enablement patches around the DeviceTree being queued as part of the SoC changes destined for the Linux 6.7 kernel cycle.
As written about in late September, limited support for the AMD Pensando Elba SoC is going... | 1 | 1,760,718,995.893251 |
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-PMF-Smart-PC-Solutions | AMD Prepares PMF Linux Driver For "Smart PC Solutions Builder" | Michael Larabel | The AMD Platform Management Framework (PMF) Linux driver is preparing to support a new but potentially controversial feature that's seen little public information so far: the Smart PC Solutions Builder.
AMD Linux engineers on Friday posted a set of fifteen patches for extending the AMD PMF Linux driver to support this ... | 31 | 1,760,718,996.902939 |
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Pensando-Elba-Challenge | Limited Support For The AMD Pensando Elba SoC Might Finally Land Upstream In Linux 6.7 | Michael Larabel | For a year and a half now Pensando has been working on enabling their Elba SoC support for the mainline Linux kernel - a process that coincidentally began just days after AMD announced it was acquiring Pensando. Over the past 18 months the AMD-Pensando Elba SoC enablement work has now been through 16 rounds of code rev... | 10 | 1,760,718,997.342033 |
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GPUOpen-Updated-RGP-RGA-RMV | AMD's GPUOpen Releases Updated RGP, RGA & RMV Tools For Developers | Michael Larabel | AMD's GPUOpen team today released a number of updated components for graphics application/engine developers.
Radeon GPU Analyzer 2.8 was released with support added for the Radeon RX 7700 XT / RX 7800 XT graphics as well as Radeon 740M / 760M / 780M graphics processors. There is also updates to the offline Vulkan / Op... | 1 | 1,760,718,998.063105 |
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-ZenDNN-4.1 | AMD ZenDNN 4.1 Released For Speeding Up Deep Learning Inference On Ryzen / EPYC CPUs | Michael Larabel | AMD on Thursday released ZenDNN 4.1 as the newest release of their Zen Deep Neural Network Library for accelerating inference workloads on AMD Ryzen and EPYC processors. The ZenDNN library remains API compatible with Intel's oneDNN library and helps for building out optimized AI workloads for use on AMD Zen processors.... | 1 | 1,760,718,998.875673 |
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Versal-HBM-SoCs-Production | AMD Versal HBM Adaptive SoCs Enter Production | Michael Larabel | AMD announced today that their Versal HBM adaptive SoCs have entered production for these newest wares with high bandwidth memory.
The Versal adaptive SoCs are designed for roles from AI to edge and cloud applications. These newest SoCs now in production sport HBM2e DRAM to provide a reported 6x more memory bandwidth... | 4 | 1,760,718,999.01672 |
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-UIF-1.2-Inference-Frontend | AMD UIF 1.2 Released With Initial Radeon GPU Support | Michael Larabel | AMD today published version 1.2 of their Unified Inference Frontend (UIF) that is for supporting deep learning inference across AMD CPUs, GPUs, as well as Versal adaptive SoCs and FPGAs. AMD UIF aims to accelerate AI inference across all AMD compute platforms with machine learning frameworks like PyTorch and TensorFlow... | 2 | 1,760,718,999.955677 |
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Preferred-Core-Linux-v5 | AMD Preferred Core Patches Updated For Linux | Michael Larabel | On the AMD CPU side of the house, one of the patch series we are looking forward to seeing upstreamed in the Linux kernel is the AMD Preferred Core functionality that was initially sent out this summer. This AMD Preferred Core handling is built onto the AMD P-State driver and has been undergoing a few rounds of iterati... | 5 | 1,760,719,000.935411 |
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Open-Hardware-2023 | AMD Open Hardware Competition Winners Announced For 2023 | Michael Larabel | AMD by way of their Xilinx acquisition has been running the Open Hardware Competition since 2015 for helping to drive new innovations around FPGAs and the ACAP compute platform. The winners of the AMD Open Hardware Competition 2023 were recently announced.
This AMD-Xilinx Open Hardware event is open to European univer... | 0 | 1,760,719,001.900454 |
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-DBC-Expanded-Platforms | Expanded Platform Support For AMD Dynamic Boost Control Being Worked On For Linux | Michael Larabel | Since early this year AMD has been working on Linux enablement patches for Dynamic Boost Control (DBC). This is a new feature of some AMD SoCs that allow an "authenticated entity" to have greater control over certain SoC characteristics to improve the power/performance. AMD DBC was merged for Linux 6.6 just days ago wh... | 1 | 1,760,719,002.157821 |
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.6-Optimize-Lacking-ERMS | Some AMD CPUs To Benefit From New Micro-Optimization In Linux 6.6 | Michael Larabel | One of the patches to be picked up by the Linux 6.6 kernel this week brings back REP MOSQ for user-access on CPUs without Enhanced REP MOVSB (ERMS) support. In turn this can equate to some performance benefits on AMD CPUs lacking ERMS.
While Intel CPUs going back to Ivy Bridge have offered Enhanced REP MOVSB (ERMS), s... | 6 | 1,760,719,003.059752 |
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-SEV-Firmware-Open-Source | AMD Publishes SEV Firmware As Open-Source | Michael Larabel | While I have been eagerly following the AMD openSIL project for open-source CPU initialization that will eventually replace AGESA, today AMD announced a new open-source firmware drop: the SEV firmware has been made open-source.
The firmware necessary for AMD's Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) had been made open-so... | 16 | 1,760,719,003.771172 |
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-ROCm-5.6.1 | AMD ROCm 5.6.1 Compute Stack Released With A Few Fixes | Michael Larabel | While we are eagerly awaiting ROCm support for more RDNA3 GPUs said to be coming later this calendar year, shipping Tuesday night was ROCm 5.6.1 as the newest point release for this open-source GPU compute stack.
ROCm 5.6.1 is a new bug-fix release over ROCm 5.6 that shipped back in June. It's rather light on the fixe... | 7 | 1,760,719,004.112886 |
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