Intel's AVX10.2 Patches Merged For GCC 15 To Drop 256-bit Rounding & AVX10.2-256 Options What a week. Last week Intel published a new AVX10 whitepaper where they dropped the optional 512-bit support of AVX10.2 and confirmed future P and E cores will have AVX10.2-512 support unconditionally. A very welcome change by Intel albeit late in rushing to get patches out to change that behavior ahead of the GCC 15 stable compiler release as well as working similar changes into the LLVM Clang compiler. As of today those GNU Compiler Collection patches have been merged to prepare for AVX10.2 always having 512-bit support available...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/....Intel-AVX10.2-256-Me

Linux 6.14 Released With Working NTSYNC Driver, AMD Ryzen AI Accelerator Support There was a hiccup yesterday with no Linux 6.14 release or 6.14-rc8 otherwise... Linus Torvalds has a very good track record of sticking to his Sunday release regiment. Yet yesterday was quiet. Today though Linus Torvalds released the Linux 6.14 kernel as the newest stable version. Linux 6.14 is what's set to go on and power Ubuntu 25.04, Fedora 42, and other spring 2025 Linux distribution releases...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.14

AMD Lands LLVM Flang Fortran Runtime Support For Compiling Directly On The GPU An AMD engineer has landed experimental support within the LLVM codebase for building Flang-RT on GPUs. Flang-RT being the run-time for LLVM's modern Fortran "Flang" compiler and in turn this effort working to allow more Fortran code to easily run on GPUs with capable LLVM back-ends...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/....AMD-Flang-RT-Build-O

New FWCTL Subsystem Submitted For Linux 6.15 Assuming no objections from Linus Torvalds, the now open Linux 6.15 merge window could introduce a brand new subsystem: fwctl...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.15-fwctl

Btrfs Adding Fast/Realtime Zstd Compression & Other Performance Optimizations David Sterba of SUSE sent in all of the Btrfs file-system updates today for the now-open Linux 6.15 kernel merge window. There are some new performance optimizations, new and faster Zstd compression level options, and other changes slated to be included for this CoW file-system in Linux 6.15...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.15-Btrfs