📰 Many Intel & AMD Laptop Improvements Merged For Linux 7.1
As usual in recent years, there were many x86 platform driver changes merged this cycle for benefiting modern AMD Ryzen and Intel Core (Ultra) laptops. A variety of new features and laptop hardware support additions were merged for Linux 7.1...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-x86-Platform-Drivers
#amd #intel #linux
As usual in recent years, there were many x86 platform driver changes merged this cycle for benefiting modern AMD Ryzen and Intel Core (Ultra) laptops. A variety of new features and laptop hardware support additions were merged for Linux 7.1...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-x86-Platform-Drivers
#amd #intel #linux
Phoronix
Many Intel & AMD Laptop Improvements Merged For Linux 7.1
As usual in recent years, there were many x86 platform driver changes merged this cycle for benefiting modern AMD Ryzen and Intel Core (Ultra) laptops
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📰 LACT 0.9 Released With UI Updates, Voltage-Frequency Curve Editor For NVIDIA
LACT, one of the leading open-source solutions to provide a graphics card management GUI that works across AMD / NVIDIA / Intel graphics hardware on Linux, is out with a major update this weekend...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/LACT-0.9-Released
#amd #intel #linux #opensource
LACT, one of the leading open-source solutions to provide a graphics card management GUI that works across AMD / NVIDIA / Intel graphics hardware on Linux, is out with a major update this weekend...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/LACT-0.9-Released
#amd #intel #linux #opensource
Phoronix
LACT 0.9 Released With UI Updates, Voltage-Frequency Curve Editor For NVIDIA
LACT, one of the leading open-source solutions to provide a graphics card management GUI that works across AMD / NVIDIA / Intel graphics hardware on Linux, is out with a major update this weekend.
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📰 The New Linux Kernel AI Bot Uncovering Bugs Is A Local LLM On Framework Desktop + AMD Ryzen AI Max
Earlier this month on Phoronix we were the first to draw attention to a new fuzzing tool / AI bot uncovering kernel bugs by Greg Kroah-Hartman, the "second in command" for Linux kernel development and stable maintainer. Greg has now shared more light on the "gregkh_clanker_t1000" for this tool that has been uncovering more Linux kernel bugs the past few weeks...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Clanker-T1000-AMD-Ryzen-AI-Max
#amd #kernel #linux
Earlier this month on Phoronix we were the first to draw attention to a new fuzzing tool / AI bot uncovering kernel bugs by Greg Kroah-Hartman, the "second in command" for Linux kernel development and stable maintainer. Greg has now shared more light on the "gregkh_clanker_t1000" for this tool that has been uncovering more Linux kernel bugs the past few weeks...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Clanker-T1000-AMD-Ryzen-AI-Max
#amd #kernel #linux
Phoronix
The New Linux Kernel AI Bot Uncovering Bugs Is A Local LLM On Framework Desktop + AMD Ryzen AI Max
Earlier this month on Phoronix we were the first to draw attention to a new fuzzing tool / AI bot uncovering kernel bugs by Greg Kroah-Hartman, the 'second in command' for Linux kernel development and stable maintainer
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📰 RADV Vulkan Driver Adds Memory Protection Using AMD Trusted Memory Zone
The newest Mesa Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" feature enabled by AMD engineers is protected memory support using the Trusted Memory Zone (TMZ) support on newer GPUs...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-RADV-Protected-Memory
#amd
The newest Mesa Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" feature enabled by AMD engineers is protected memory support using the Trusted Memory Zone (TMZ) support on newer GPUs...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-RADV-Protected-Memory
#amd
Phoronix
RADV Vulkan Driver Adds Memory Protection Using AMD Trusted Memory Zone
The newest Mesa Radeon Vulkan driver 'RADV' feature enabled by AMD engineers is protected memory support using the Trusted Memory Zone (TMZ) support on newer GPUs.
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📰 AMD's Lemonade SDK 10.3 Now 10x Smaller By Getting Rid Of Electron
Lemonade as the open-source local AI server backed by AMD and supported across AMD CPUs / GPUs / NPUs on Windows and Linux is out with a big update...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Lemonade-10.3
#amd #linux #opensource
Lemonade as the open-source local AI server backed by AMD and supported across AMD CPUs / GPUs / NPUs on Windows and Linux is out with a big update...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Lemonade-10.3
#amd #linux #opensource
Phoronix
AMD's Lemonade SDK 10.3 Now 10x Smaller By Getting Rid Of Electron
Lemonade as the open-source local AI server backed by AMD and supported across AMD CPUs / GPUs / NPUs on Windows and Linux is out with a big update.
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📰 AMD Introducing New Linux Driver For Their Halo Box: For Its RGB LED Light Bar
AMD CEO Lisa Su back at CES 2026 showed off the Ryzen AI Halo box as a mini PC built around their excellent Strix Halo SoC. The Ryzen AI halo box is to serve as an AI development platform to compete with the likes of NVIDIA's DGX Spark and Dell GB10. This week is the first time I am seeing new Linux driver activity specifically referencing this exciting AMD "Halo Box" system...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Halo-Box-RGB-LED-Driver
#amd #linux
AMD CEO Lisa Su back at CES 2026 showed off the Ryzen AI Halo box as a mini PC built around their excellent Strix Halo SoC. The Ryzen AI halo box is to serve as an AI development platform to compete with the likes of NVIDIA's DGX Spark and Dell GB10. This week is the first time I am seeing new Linux driver activity specifically referencing this exciting AMD "Halo Box" system...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Halo-Box-RGB-LED-Driver
#amd #linux
Phoronix
AMD Introducing New Linux Driver For Their Halo Box: For Its RGB LED Light Bar
AMD CEO Lisa Su back at CES 2026 showed off the Ryzen AI Halo box as a mini PC built around their excellent Strix Halo SoC
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📰 AMD Posts Newest Linux Patches To Accelerate Page Migration For Better Performance
Posted to the Linux kernel mailing list this week was the newest revision of a patch series originally started in early 2025 by a NVIDIA engineer for accelerating page migration. Now being worked on by AMD engineers, this accelerated page migration via batch copies and hardware offloading continues to show promising results...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Accelerated-Page-Migration-v4
#amd #kernel #linux
Posted to the Linux kernel mailing list this week was the newest revision of a patch series originally started in early 2025 by a NVIDIA engineer for accelerating page migration. Now being worked on by AMD engineers, this accelerated page migration via batch copies and hardware offloading continues to show promising results...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Accelerated-Page-Migration-v4
#amd #kernel #linux
Phoronix
AMD Posts Newest Linux Patches To Accelerate Page Migration For Better Performance
Posted to the Linux kernel mailing list this week was the newest revision of a patch series originally started in early 2025 by a NVIDIA engineer for accelerating page migration
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📰 GCC 16.1 Released With AMD Zen 6 Support, Algol 68 & Many C/C++ Improvements
GCC 16.1 is now available as the first stable release of GCC 16 as this year's major open-source GNU compiler feature release...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/GCC-16.1-Released
#amd #gnu #opensource
GCC 16.1 is now available as the first stable release of GCC 16 as this year's major open-source GNU compiler feature release...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/GCC-16.1-Released
#amd #gnu #opensource
Phoronix
GCC 16.1 Released With AMD Zen 6 Support, Algol 68 & Many C++ Improvements
GCC 16.1 is now available as the first stable release of GCC 16 as this year's major open-source GNU compiler feature release.
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📰 Mesa Developers Consider Branching Off Some Older GPU Drivers - Including AMD R300/R600
Mike Blumenkrantz of Valve's Linux graphics team has ignited a discussion over potentially shifting some of Mesa's older GPU drivers into a new legacy Git branch in order to better support the more modern OpenGL and Vulkan drivers without having to worry about breaking the legacy drivers and to allow for better cleaning of the Mesa codebase. Among the drivers that could be impacted are the ATI/AMD R300 and R600 drivers and many smaller drivers...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-Considering-Amber-2
#amd #linux
Mike Blumenkrantz of Valve's Linux graphics team has ignited a discussion over potentially shifting some of Mesa's older GPU drivers into a new legacy Git branch in order to better support the more modern OpenGL and Vulkan drivers without having to worry about breaking the legacy drivers and to allow for better cleaning of the Mesa codebase. Among the drivers that could be impacted are the ATI/AMD R300 and R600 drivers and many smaller drivers...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-Considering-Amber-2
#amd #linux
Phoronix
Mesa Developers Consider Branching Off Some Older GPU Drivers - Including AMD R300/R600
Mike Blumenkrantz of Valve's Linux graphics team has ignited a discussion over potentially shifting some of Mesa's older GPU drivers into a new legacy Git branch in order to better support the more modern OpenGL and Vulkan drivers without having to worry…
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📰 Star Labs Releases Coreboot Firmware 26.05 with New Features for Its Linux PCs
Star Labs releases Firmware 26.05 with support for AMD Cezanne models like Star Labs Byte Mk I and StarBook Mk VI, and Coreboot support for Star Labs Byte Mk I.
🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/star-labs-releases-firmware-26-05-with-new-features-for-its-linux-pcs
#amd #linux
Star Labs releases Firmware 26.05 with support for AMD Cezanne models like Star Labs Byte Mk I and StarBook Mk VI, and Coreboot support for Star Labs Byte Mk I.
🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/star-labs-releases-firmware-26-05-with-new-features-for-its-linux-pcs
#amd #linux
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📰 AMD's GAIA Defaults To Better Model, Continued Improvements For Local AI
AMD software engineers on Friday released a new version of GAIA "Generative AI Is Awesome" as their open-source software for Windows and Linux leveraging the Lemonade SDK and aiming to make it easy to build AI agents on your PC with all local AI processing across AMD's CPUs, GPUs, and NPUs...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-GAIA-0.17.5
#amd #linux #opensource
AMD software engineers on Friday released a new version of GAIA "Generative AI Is Awesome" as their open-source software for Windows and Linux leveraging the Lemonade SDK and aiming to make it easy to build AI agents on your PC with all local AI processing across AMD's CPUs, GPUs, and NPUs...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-GAIA-0.17.5
#amd #linux #opensource
Phoronix
AMD's GAIA Defaults To Better Model, Continued Improvements For Local AI
AMD software engineers on Friday released a new version of GAIA 'Generative AI Is Awesome' as their open-source software for Windows and Linux leveraging the Lemonade SDK and aiming to make it easy to build AI agents on your PC with all local AI processing…
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📰 Expanded AMD HDMI 2.1 support is coming to Linux
One area that's lacking on Linux right now is support for later versions of HDMI with AMD GPUs, but it seems expanded features are coming.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.
🔗 Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/05/expanded-amd-hdmi-2-1-support-is-coming-to-linux/
#amd #linux
One area that's lacking on Linux right now is support for later versions of HDMI with AMD GPUs, but it seems expanded features are coming.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.
🔗 Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/05/expanded-amd-hdmi-2-1-support-is-coming-to-linux/
#amd #linux
GamingOnLinux
Expanded AMD HDMI 2.1 support is coming to Linux
One area that's lacking on Linux right now is support for later versions of HDMI with AMD GPUs, but it seems expanded features are coming.
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📰 GCC 16 Compiler Delivering Some Decent Performance Gains Over GCC 15
With the GCC 16.1 compiler released last Thursday, I have begun running more compiler benchmarks on this first GCC 16 stable feature release. GCC 16 comes heavy on new changes in being the annual feature release and delivering changes from AMD Zen 6 and Arm AGI CPU support to new C++ features and even the Algol 68 programming language front-end.
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/review/gcc-16-benchmarks
#amd #arm
With the GCC 16.1 compiler released last Thursday, I have begun running more compiler benchmarks on this first GCC 16 stable feature release. GCC 16 comes heavy on new changes in being the annual feature release and delivering changes from AMD Zen 6 and Arm AGI CPU support to new C++ features and even the Algol 68 programming language front-end.
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/review/gcc-16-benchmarks
#amd #arm
Phoronix
GCC 16 Compiler Delivering Some Decent Performance Gains Over GCC 15
With the GCC 16.1 compiler released last Thursday, I have begun running more compiler benchmarks on this first GCC 16 stable feature release.
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📰 AMD Preps Linux For CPPC HighestFreq Feature Coming With Future ACPI Spec
An improvement on the way for the AMD P-State Linux CPU frequency scaling driver and the Linux ACPI Collaborative Processor Performance Control (CPPC) code at large is supporting a new "HighestFreq" register to be standardized by a future revision of the ACPI specification...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-CPPC-HighestFreq
#amd #linux
An improvement on the way for the AMD P-State Linux CPU frequency scaling driver and the Linux ACPI Collaborative Processor Performance Control (CPPC) code at large is supporting a new "HighestFreq" register to be standardized by a future revision of the ACPI specification...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-CPPC-HighestFreq
#amd #linux
Phoronix
AMD Preps Linux For CPPC HighestFreq Feature Coming With Future ACPI Spec
An improvement on the way for the AMD P-State Linux CPU frequency scaling driver and the Linux ACPI Collaborative Processor Performance Control (CPPC) code at large is supporting a new 'HighestFreq' register to be standardized by a future revision of the…
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📰 AMD Geode CPU Support Being Orphaned By Linux
For those with fond memories of the AMD Geode x86 embedded processors, the Linux kernel is set to orphan these since discontinued and obsolete CPUs...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Geode-Orphaned-By-Linux
#amd #kernel #linux
For those with fond memories of the AMD Geode x86 embedded processors, the Linux kernel is set to orphan these since discontinued and obsolete CPUs...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Geode-Orphaned-By-Linux
#amd #kernel #linux
Phoronix
AMD Geode CPU Support Being Orphaned By Linux
For those with fond memories of the AMD Geode x86 embedded processors, the Linux kernel is set to orphan these since discontinued and obsolete CPUs.
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📰 Linux Drivers For The AMD Elan SoCs From The 1990s On Track For Retirement
Merged for the current Linux 7.1 cycle was beginning to phase out the Intel 486 processor support from the mainline kernel moving forward. That initial step with Linux 7.1 was dropping the various Kconfig options to allow compiling Linux kernel builds for targeting various i486 platforms. As part of that, the AMD Elan SoC configuration patches were dropped.
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Elan-Linux-Driver-Removal
#amd #intel #kernel #linux
Merged for the current Linux 7.1 cycle was beginning to phase out the Intel 486 processor support from the mainline kernel moving forward. That initial step with Linux 7.1 was dropping the various Kconfig options to allow compiling Linux kernel builds for targeting various i486 platforms. As part of that, the AMD Elan SoC configuration patches were dropped.
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Elan-Linux-Driver-Removal
#amd #intel #kernel #linux
Phoronix
Linux Drivers For The AMD Elan SoCs From The 1990s On Track For Retirement
Merged for the current Linux 7.1 cycle was beginning to phase out the Intel 486 processor support from the mainline kernel moving forward
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📰 AMD K5 CPUs The Latest To Be Retired With Linux's Aging & Stagnate Hardware Support
Following Linux 7.1 beginning to phase out i486 CPU support and in turn drivers like those for the old AMD Elan SoCs now being removed, for Linux 7.2 the processor support removal is going further to now include some i586 and i686 class processors...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-K5-CPUs
#amd #linux
Following Linux 7.1 beginning to phase out i486 CPU support and in turn drivers like those for the old AMD Elan SoCs now being removed, for Linux 7.2 the processor support removal is going further to now include some i586 and i686 class processors...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-K5-CPUs
#amd #linux
Phoronix
AMD K5 CPUs The Latest To Be Retired With Linux's Aging & Stagnate Hardware Support
Following Linux 7.1 beginning to phase out i486 CPU support and in turn drivers like those for the old AMD Elan SoCs now being removed, for Linux 7.2 the processor support removal is going further to now include some i586 and i686 class processors.
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📰 Star Labs StarFighter Linux Laptop Finally Goes on Sale
Star Labs' StarFighter Linux laptop is now available with Intel and AMD options, coreboot firmware, LVFS updates, and a 16-inch display.
🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/star-labs-starfighter-linux-laptop-finally-goes-on-sale/
#amd #intel #linux
Star Labs' StarFighter Linux laptop is now available with Intel and AMD options, coreboot firmware, LVFS updates, and a 16-inch display.
🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/star-labs-starfighter-linux-laptop-finally-goes-on-sale/
#amd #intel #linux
Linuxiac
Star Labs StarFighter Linux Laptop Finally Goes on Sale
Star Labs' StarFighter Linux laptop is now available with Intel and AMD options, coreboot firmware, LVFS updates, and a 16-inch display.
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📰 HP Z6 G5 A Continues Working Out Well For Linux-Friendly, High-End Workstation
In late 2023 I reviewed the HP Z6 G5 A workstation that at the time was built around the AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7000 series and NVIDIA RTX Ada Generation graphics. More recently, HP has revised the Z6 G5 A workstation for the latest Threadripper PRO 9000 series and NVIDIA RTX PRO Blackwell graphics. HP sent over the upgraded Z6 G5 A workstation that I've been benchmarking the past few weeks.
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/review/hp-z6-g5-a-2026
#amd #linux
In late 2023 I reviewed the HP Z6 G5 A workstation that at the time was built around the AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7000 series and NVIDIA RTX Ada Generation graphics. More recently, HP has revised the Z6 G5 A workstation for the latest Threadripper PRO 9000 series and NVIDIA RTX PRO Blackwell graphics. HP sent over the upgraded Z6 G5 A workstation that I've been benchmarking the past few weeks.
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/review/hp-z6-g5-a-2026
#amd #linux
Phoronix
HP Z6 G5 A Continues Working Out Well For Linux-Friendly, High-End Workstation
In late 2023 I reviewed the HP Z6 G5 A workstation that at the time was built around the AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7000 series and NVIDIA RTX Ada Generation graphics.
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