Arch Linux: Recent news updates
Plasma 6.4.0 will need manual intervention if you are on X11
On Plasma 6.4 the wayland session will be the only one installed when the users does not manually specify kwin-x11.
With the recent split of kwin into kwin-wayland and kwin-x11, users running the old X11 session needs to manually install plasma-x11-session, or they will not be able to login. Currently pacman is not able to figure out your personal setup, and it wouldn't be ok to install plasma-x11-session and kwin-x11 for every one using Plasma.
tldr: Install plasma-x11-session if you are still using x11
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(author: Tomaz Canabrava)
Plasma 6.4.0 will need manual intervention if you are on X11
On Plasma 6.4 the wayland session will be the only one installed when the users does not manually specify kwin-x11.
With the recent split of kwin into kwin-wayland and kwin-x11, users running the old X11 session needs to manually install plasma-x11-session, or they will not be able to login. Currently pacman is not able to figure out your personal setup, and it wouldn't be ok to install plasma-x11-session and kwin-x11 for every one using Plasma.
tldr: Install plasma-x11-session if you are still using x11
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(author: Tomaz Canabrava)
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AMD's Freshly-baked MI350: An Interview with the Chief Architect
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Telegraph | source
(author: George Cozma)
AMD's Freshly-baked MI350: An Interview with the Chief Architect
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Telegraph | source
(author: George Cozma)
Telegraph
AMD's Freshly-baked MI350: An Interview with the Chief Archi…
Hello you fine Internet folks,At AMD's Advancing AI 2025, I had the pleasure of interviewing Alan Smith, AMD Senior Fellow and Chief Instinct Architect, about CDNA4 found in the MI350 series of accelerators. Hope y'all enjoy! Transcript below has been edited…
Arch Linux: Recent news updates
linux-firmware >= 20250613.12fe085f-5 upgrade requires manual intervention
With
Unfortunately, this coincided with upstream reorganizing the symlink layout of the NVIDIA firmware, resulting in a situation that Pacman cannot handle. When attempting to upgrade from
To progress with the system upgrade, first remove
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(author: Jan Alexander Steffens)
linux-firmware >= 20250613.12fe085f-5 upgrade requires manual intervention
With
20250613.12fe085f-5, we split our firmware into several vendor-focused packages. linux-firmware is now an empty package depending on our default set of firmware.Unfortunately, this coincided with upstream reorganizing the symlink layout of the NVIDIA firmware, resulting in a situation that Pacman cannot handle. When attempting to upgrade from
20250508.788aadc8-2 or earlier, you will see the following errors:linux-firmware-nvidia: /usr/lib/firmware/nvidia/ad103 exists in filesystem
linux-firmware-nvidia: /usr/lib/firmware/nvidia/ad104 exists in filesystem
linux-firmware-nvidia: /usr/lib/firmware/nvidia/ad106 exists in filesystem
linux-firmware-nvidia: /usr/lib/firmware/nvidia/ad107 exists in filesystem
To progress with the system upgrade, first remove
linux-firmware, then reinstall it as part of the upgrade:# pacman -Rdd linux-firmware
# pacman -Syu linux-firmware
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(author: Jan Alexander Steffens)
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TIL: 查看包含某个 commit 的最近 tag
可以用来判断某个 commit 被包含在哪个版本里
可以用来判断某个 commit 被包含在哪个版本里
git describe --contains <commit-hash>
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Blackwell: Nvidia’s Massive GPU
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Telegraph | source
(author: Chester Lam)
Blackwell: Nvidia’s Massive GPU
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Telegraph | source
(author: Chester Lam)
Telegraph
Blackwell: Nvidia’s Massive GPU
Nvidia has a long tradition of building giant GPUs. Blackwell, their latest graphics architecture, continues that tradition. GB202 is the largest Blackwell die. It occupies a massive 750mm2 of area, and has 92.2 billion transistors. GB202 has 192 Streaming…