Updated Intel Patches For Cache Aware Scheduling Net A 44% Win For AMD EPYC
13 October 2025 - Cache Aware Scheduling

In the works the past number of months has been cache-aware load balancing / cache aware scheduling support for Linux. The latest iteration of those patches by Intel were posted this weekend and are enjoying the most uplift on AMD EPYC Genoa and newer platforms.

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LineageOS for Raspberry Pi Update
2025-10-14
#RaspberryPi #LineageOS

Release tag:
LineageOS 23.0 20251014

Assets:
lineage-23.0-20251014-UNOFFICIAL-KonstaKANG-rpi4-atv-ota.zip (629.3 MB)
lineage-23.0-20251014-UNOFFICIAL-KonstaKANG-rpi5-atv-ota.zip (633.7 MB)

Linux 6.19 Will Continue With More Rust Graphics Driver Preparations
14 October 2025 - Linux 6.19 DRM-Misc-Next First

Even prior to the recent ending of the Linux 6.18 merge window and its many new features, the first "drm-misc-next" pull request of new material intended for Linux 6.19 was already submitted for inclusion to DRM-Next.

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Amazon AWS Working On Linux "PCSC" To Help With Dense SR-IOV Deployments
14 October 2025 - PCI Configuration Space Cache (PCSC)

A low-level Linux kernel improvement being worked on by engineers at Amazon Web Services (AWS) is for introducing a PCI Configuration Space Cache "PCSC" to help with dense SR-IOV deployments that can end up hitting significant overhead with the current Linux kernel.

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Clash Meta for Android Update
2025-10-14
#Clash #ClashMeta #Android

Release tag:
v2.11.18

Assets:
cmfa-2.11.18-meta-arm64-v8a-release.apk (24.8 MB)
cmfa-2.11.18-meta-armeabi-v7a-release.apk (25.1 MB)
cmfa-2.11.18-meta-universal-release.apk (60.8 MB)
cmfa-2.11.18-meta-x86-release.apk (26.0 MB)
cmfa-2.11.18-meta-x86_64-release.apk (25.8 MB)
output-metadata.json (2.5 KB)

RealVNC Viewer Update
2025-10-14
#RealVNCViewer

Build version:
7.15.1

Download:
Windows (EXE x86/x64)
Windows (Standalone EXE x86)
Windows (Standalone EXE x64)
Windows (MSI installers)
Mac OS (DMG)
Linux (DEB x64)
Linux (RPM x64)
Linux (Standalone x64)
Linux (EXE x64)
Raspberry Pi (DEB armhf)
Raspberry Pi (Standalone armhf)
Raspberry Pi (DEB arm64)
Raspberry Pi (Standalone arm64)

Raspberry Pi4 bootloader EEPROM Stable Update
2025-10-15
#RaspberryPi #eeprom

Build date:
20251014

Changelog:
https://github.com/raspberrypi/rpi-eeprom/blob/master/firmware-2711/release-notes.md

Download:
pieeprom-2025-10-14.bin

Size:
512.0 KB

Mysterious Intrigue Around An x86 "Corporate Entity Other Than Intel/AMD"
16 October 2025 - New x86 Opcodes

Posted to the Linux kernel mailing list and GNU Binutils mailing list today is an intriguing message from a longtime x86/x86_64 expert around a "a corporate entity other than Intel/AMD" using some x86 opcodes not used by AMD or Intel processors.

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Linux Graphics Driver Fixes Readied For Linux 6.18-rc2
17 October 2025 - Linux 6.18-rc2

Ahead of the Linux 6.18-rc2 release on Sunday, the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) fixes for the week were sent out today. There is the usual assortment of different kernel graphics driver fixes, mostly with the Intel and AMD drivers as usual. In particular a few Intel driver fixes make this week's pull worth mentioning.

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New Linux Kernel Patches From Intel Delivering +18% Database Performance
17 October 2025 - Linux MM CID Patches

In addition to the recent Linux kernel patches out of Intel for Cache Aware Scheduling for better performance, separately, another interesting new patch series was sent out this week for the Linux kernel. The patches rework some low-level Linux kernel memory management code and at least for database workloads the early benchmarks are showing possible 14~18% faster database performance with PostgreSQL.

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AES-GCM Crypto Performance Up To ~74% Faster For AMD Zen 3 With Linux 6.19
17 October 2025 - Faster AES-GCM Crypto

Improvements to the Linux kernel's AES-GCM Galois/Counter Mode crypto block cipher code will yield up to 74% faster performance for AMD Zen 3 processors with the Linux 6.19 kernel in the new year.

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Google Clang Prebuilt Update
#clang

Commit

Download tar.gz:
clang 21.0.0 (based on r574158) from build 14278474