📰 Linux Patches Posted For Initial Enablement Of The Apple A18 Pro + MacBook Neo
In addition to Linux developers focused on Apple Silicon being busy enabling functionality for the M3 and newer SoCs under the Linux kernel, there are also developers working on enabling the A18 Pro SoC used by the new, budget-friendly MacBook Neo laptop. Patches were posted this week for initial enablement of the A18 Pro and the MacBook Neo Device Tree... But even with these patches, the Linux support is still severely limited for now...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Apple-A18-Pro-MacBook-Neo-Patch
#kernel #linux
In addition to Linux developers focused on Apple Silicon being busy enabling functionality for the M3 and newer SoCs under the Linux kernel, there are also developers working on enabling the A18 Pro SoC used by the new, budget-friendly MacBook Neo laptop. Patches were posted this week for initial enablement of the A18 Pro and the MacBook Neo Device Tree... But even with these patches, the Linux support is still severely limited for now...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Apple-A18-Pro-MacBook-Neo-Patch
#kernel #linux
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Linux Patches Posted For Initial Enablement Of The Apple A18 Pro + MacBook Neo
In addition to Linux developers focused on Apple Silicon being busy enabling functionality for the M3 and newer SoCs under the Linux kernel, there are also developers working on enabling the A18 Pro SoC used by the new, budget-friendly MacBook Neo laptop
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📰 Linux 7.3-rc2 Released Following Another Busy Week
After the Linux 7.3 merge window concluded last weekend, today we are up to the Linux 7.3-rc2 test kernel release in working toward the stable v7.3 kernel during the second half of October...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-rc2-Released
#kernel #linux
After the Linux 7.3 merge window concluded last weekend, today we are up to the Linux 7.3-rc2 test kernel release in working toward the stable v7.3 kernel during the second half of October...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-rc2-Released
#kernel #linux
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Linux 7.3-rc2 Released Following Another Busy Week
After the Linux 7.3 merge window concluded last weekend, today we are up to the Linux 7.3-rc2 test kernel release in working toward the stable v7.3 kernel during the second half of October.
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📰 Nouveau Preparations For HDMI 2.1 DSC, AMD HDMI FreeSync Fixes For Linux 7.4
Last week's set of DRM-Misc-Next changes submitted to DRM-Next with targeting the upcoming Linux 7.4 kernel cycle features HDMI 2.1 related work for both the AMDGPU kernel driver as well as the Nouveau open-source NVIDIA driver...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.4-DRM-Misc-Next-1
#amd #kernel #linux #opensource
Last week's set of DRM-Misc-Next changes submitted to DRM-Next with targeting the upcoming Linux 7.4 kernel cycle features HDMI 2.1 related work for both the AMDGPU kernel driver as well as the Nouveau open-source NVIDIA driver...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.4-DRM-Misc-Next-1
#amd #kernel #linux #opensource
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Nouveau Preparations For HDMI 2.1 DSC, AMD HDMI FreeSync Fixes For Linux 7.4
Last week's set of DRM-Misc-Next changes submitted to DRM-Next with targeting the upcoming Linux 7.4 kernel cycle features HDMI 2.1 related work for both the AMDGPU kernel driver as well as the Nouveau open-source NVIDIA driver.
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📰 Linux Preps For New AMD Zen 6 BTB CTX Isolation Security Feature
A recently posted Linux kernel patch has revealed a new security improvement with Zen 6 processors...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Preps-AMD-BTB-CTX
#amd #kernel #linux
A recently posted Linux kernel patch has revealed a new security improvement with Zen 6 processors...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Preps-AMD-BTB-CTX
#amd #kernel #linux
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Linux Preps For New AMD Zen 6 BTB CTX Isolation Security Feature
A recently posted Linux kernel patch has revealed a new security improvement with Zen 6 processors.
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📰 LLVM Merges Support For AMD's RMPCHKD, RMPREAD & RMPOPT Instructions
With the Linux kernel still working toward landing support for AMD's RMPOPT optimization for helping to reduce overhead on SEV-SNP enabled servers, the LLVM/Clang compiler has in turn prepped for the milestone by landing support for the RMPOPT, RMPREAD, and RMPCHKD instructions for Zen 5 and newer...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/LLVM-Zen5-Zen6-RMPOPT
#amd #kernel #linux
With the Linux kernel still working toward landing support for AMD's RMPOPT optimization for helping to reduce overhead on SEV-SNP enabled servers, the LLVM/Clang compiler has in turn prepped for the milestone by landing support for the RMPOPT, RMPREAD, and RMPCHKD instructions for Zen 5 and newer...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/LLVM-Zen5-Zen6-RMPOPT
#amd #kernel #linux
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LLVM Merges Support For AMD's RMPCHKD, RMPREAD & RMPOPT Instructions
With the Linux kernel still working toward landing support for AMD's RMPOPT optimization for helping to reduce overhead on SEV-SNP enabled servers, the LLVM/Clang compiler has in turn prepped for the milestone by landing support for the RMPOPT, RMPREAD, and…
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📰 The Linux Kernel Planning To Remove Around ~55k Lines Of Old ARM Platform Code
For the current Linux 7.3 kernel many older 32-bit ARM platforms are deprecated and in turn orphaning hundreds of drivers only relevant to those out-of-date ARM platforms. The removal of that now deprecated code is planned for the next kernel cycle or two...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Dropping-Old-ARM-Ahead
#arm #kernel #linux
For the current Linux 7.3 kernel many older 32-bit ARM platforms are deprecated and in turn orphaning hundreds of drivers only relevant to those out-of-date ARM platforms. The removal of that now deprecated code is planned for the next kernel cycle or two...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Dropping-Old-ARM-Ahead
#arm #kernel #linux
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The Linux Kernel Planning To Remove Around ~55k Lines Of Old ARM Platform Code
For the current Linux 7.3 kernel many older 32-bit ARM platforms are deprecated and in turn orphaning hundreds of drivers only relevant to those out-of-date ARM platforms
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📰 Building GPU Drivers in Rust: Tyr at RustConf 2026
Join us in Montreal for the 10th edition of RustConf! Catch our talk on Tyr, the new Rust kernel driver for Arm Mali GPUs.
🔗 Source: https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/building-gpu-drivers-in-rust-tyr-at-rustconf-2026.html
#arm #kernel #rust
Join us in Montreal for the 10th edition of RustConf! Catch our talk on Tyr, the new Rust kernel driver for Arm Mali GPUs.
🔗 Source: https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/building-gpu-drivers-in-rust-tyr-at-rustconf-2026.html
#arm #kernel #rust
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Building GPU Drivers in Rust: Tyr at RustConf 2026
Join us this Thursday to learn about Tyr, a GPU drvier for the kernel!
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📰 AI Made A Lot Of "Hideous" Code But Found Major Bottlenecks For Faster Linux Compilation
An ARM Linux engineer leveraged AI/LLMs to help uncover some improvements to "significant speed up" the Linux kernel build times. In the process the LLM used generated "a lot of code, much of it hideous" but in the end was used to find some very significant time savings for faster kernel builds via more task parallelization in different areas of the kernel build process...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AI-To-Faster-Linux-Kernel-Comp
#arm #kernel #linux
An ARM Linux engineer leveraged AI/LLMs to help uncover some improvements to "significant speed up" the Linux kernel build times. In the process the LLM used generated "a lot of code, much of it hideous" but in the end was used to find some very significant time savings for faster kernel builds via more task parallelization in different areas of the kernel build process...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AI-To-Faster-Linux-Kernel-Comp
#arm #kernel #linux
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AI Made A Lot Of "Hideous" Code But Found Major Bottlenecks For Faster Linux Compilation
An ARM Linux engineer leveraged AI/LLMs to help uncover some improvements to 'significant speed up' the Linux kernel build times
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📰 Experimental Patches Get Nouveau+NVK Working On NVIDIA DGX Spark GB10
Red Hat's David Airlie has managed another open-source graphics engineering feat... Getting the Nouveau reverse-engineered kernel graphics driver and Mesa NVK Vulkan driver running on the GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip with the DGX Spark system...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Experiment-Nouveau-NVIDIA-GB10
#kernel #opensource
Red Hat's David Airlie has managed another open-source graphics engineering feat... Getting the Nouveau reverse-engineered kernel graphics driver and Mesa NVK Vulkan driver running on the GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip with the DGX Spark system...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Experiment-Nouveau-NVIDIA-GB10
#kernel #opensource
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Experimental Patches Get Nouveau+NVK Working On NVIDIA DGX Spark GB10
Red Hat's David Airlie has managed another open-source graphics engineering feat..
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📰 A Nice Improvement Coming For Faster Btrfs Zstd Decompression
In addition to the still-pending kernel work for improving the in-kernel Zstd code, sepaarately the Btrfs file-system driver has an improvement on the way in its decompression code path for the Zstd transparent file-system compression...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Btrfs-Zstd-Faster-Decompress
#kernel
In addition to the still-pending kernel work for improving the in-kernel Zstd code, sepaarately the Btrfs file-system driver has an improvement on the way in its decompression code path for the Zstd transparent file-system compression...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Btrfs-Zstd-Faster-Decompress
#kernel
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A Nice Improvement Coming For Faster Btrfs Zstd Decompression
In addition to the still-pending kernel work for improving the in-kernel Zstd code, sepaarately the Btrfs file-system driver has an improvement on the way in its decompression code path for the Zstd transparent file-system compression.
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