Linus Torvalds now favors Ampere Arm chip over Apple Silicon …
May 15, 2024 · Linux kernel creator Linus Torvalds has recently upped his game in testing Arm64 Linux. He initially began Arm64 Linux builds on an Apple Silicon MacBook Air, but now, thanks to a more...
Linus Torvalds Is Doing More ARM64 Linux Testing Now That He …
May 14, 2024 · Torvalds is now personally building more ARM64 Linux kernels for testing now that he has an Ampere workstation/server for testing with its many Armv8 cores.
Linus Torvalds uses an Arm-powered M2 MacBook Air to release …
Aug 1, 2022 · Torvalds is running Linux on his M2 MacBook with the help of Asahi Linux, a distribution that has been working to reverse-engineer Apple's hardware.
Ampere Preparing The ARM64 Linux Kernel To Support Higher
Nov 29, 2023 · Ampere Computing has sent out its latest patch attempt at increasing the number of Arm CPU cores supported by the mainline Linux kernel. As it stands at the moment the 64-bit ARM mainline Linux kernel build supports 256 cores, which can be exceeded with Ampere's new AmpereOne processors in a multi-socket configuration.
ARM64 Updates Submitted For The Linux 6.11 Kernel
Jul 12, 2024 · Due to the ARM64 maintainer for the Linux kernel going on holiday, the ARM64 port updates have been submitted ahead of the opening of the Linux 6.11 merge window that will likely be on Monday or otherwise the following week depending upon if a 6.10-rc8 is warranted.
Linux geeks cheer as Arm wrestles x86 - The Register
Jun 24, 2024 · AlmaLinux and upstream kernel support for Raspberry Pi 5, plus a forthcoming high-performance Arm64 Tuxedo laptop. Encouraging noises are coming from multiple directions around Linux support for both current and next-generation Arm64 kit.
Firefox Nightly Now Available for Linux on ARM64
Apr 19, 2024 · After launching the Firefox Nightly .deb package, feedback highlighted a demand for ARM64 builds. In response, we’re excited to now offer Firefox Nightly for ARM64 as both .tar archives and .deb packages.
Arm64 on GitHub Actions: Powering faster, more efficient build …
Jun 3, 2024 · GitHub is ecstatic to unveil Arm Ⓡ -based Linux and Windows runners for GitHub Actions are now in Public Beta. This new addition to our suite of hosted runners provides power, performance and sustainability improvements for all your GitHub Actions jobs.
Linux 6.7 release – Main changes, Arm, RISC-V, and MIPS …
Jan 8, 2024 · Arm changes in Linux 6.7. There were many updates and changes to the Arm architecture in Linux 6.7: Enable or disable 32-bit emulation on x86-64 kernels with the ia32_emulation= command-line parameter for improved security when 32 …
Yes, you can have too many CPU cores - Tom's Hardware
Nov 30, 2023 · Back in 2021, a patch was sent out proposing the ARM64 CPU core limit be increased to 512, but Linux maintainers denied it because no CPU hardware was available at the time with more than 256...
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