aum Posted February 15, 2021 Share Posted February 15, 2021 Latest Linux kernel 5.11 release is code-named the “Valentine’s Day Edition” (Image credit: Christian Wiediger / Shutterstock) The latest release of the Linux kernel features some impressive performance enhancements for AMD hardware. Released over the valentine’s day weekend, Linux kernel 5.11 fixed a major performance regression that impacted the AMD Zen architecture. Thanks to the fix, Zen-based processors such as Ryzen and EPYC have been benchmarked as being faster out of the box than on previous kernels. Also debuting in the release is support for AMD “Van Gogh” and “Dimgrey Cavefish” GPUs. The semiconductor company has recently put out a number of Linux-related job postings, and the improvements to AMD hardware in the latest release is further evidence that the chip giant is actively working to improve support for its hardware on Linux. Other changes Apart from AMD-related improvements, the latest release also features lots of enhancements related to Intel hardware. Some of the highlights are support for the set of security-related instruction code known as Intel Software Guard Extensions (SGX) and the Intel Integer Scaling (IS) graphics support that is particularly useful for pixel art games. There’s also support for wireless routers that feature Intel WiFi 6GHz Band (WiFi 6E). At the same time, Intel WiMax support has been demoted and is destined to the same fate as the recently orphaned Itanium support. As usual there are several other tweaks and enhancements for everything from file system improvements to bug fixes in the Xen hypervisor. You can download the release and compile it yourself or wait for it to make its way into the official repositories of the major distros soon. Source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mood Posted February 15, 2021 Share Posted February 15, 2021 Linux 5.11 is out with AMD and Intel improvements (and Linus Torvalds is happy) Linus Torvalds releases Linux kernel version 5.11 with plenty of support updates for Intel, AMD and Arm-based hardware. Linux kernel creator Linus Torvalds has announced availability of the Linux kernel version 5.11, marking the first stable kernel release for 2021. The version arrived on Sunday's Valentine's Day with only a small amount of changes from the previous seventh release candidate (RC). It's been in development since before December and brings support for Intel's Software Guard Extensions (SGX), a hardware-isolated trusted execution environment for applications to store and process secrets in enclaves. As noted by Linux news site Phoronix, SGX support in the Linux kernel has taken years to achieve. Linux 5.11 also brings better AMD performance and power-management support for AMD's Zen-based CPUs, thanks to patches from Google engineers. Torvalds seemed pleased with this stable release as there were no major hitches since RC7. "In fact, it's a smaller-than-average set of commits from rc7 to final, which makes me happy. And I already have several pull requests lined up for tomorrow, so we're all set for the merge window to start," noted Torvalds announcing the release over the weekend. "But in the meantime – and yes, I know it's Valentine's Day here in the US – maybe give this release a good testing before you go back and play with development kernels. All right?" Linux 5.11 also brings additional support to Arm devices, including wider support for various Chromebooks. Source: Linux 5.11 is out with AMD and Intel improvements (and Linus Torvalds is happy) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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