📰 AVX-512 xor_gen For Linux Updated & Looking Real Good For RAID Arrays
Being worked on the past few months for the Linux kernel has been an AVX-512 optimized version of xor_gen() that is used for generating and validating parity blocks such as with Linux's software RAID 5 and RAID 6 arrays. The latest iteration of AVX-512 xor_gen() was posted today and shows some impressive results on AMD Zen 5 hardware...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AVX-512-xor-gen-v5
#amd #kernel #linux
Being worked on the past few months for the Linux kernel has been an AVX-512 optimized version of xor_gen() that is used for generating and validating parity blocks such as with Linux's software RAID 5 and RAID 6 arrays. The latest iteration of AVX-512 xor_gen() was posted today and shows some impressive results on AMD Zen 5 hardware...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AVX-512-xor-gen-v5
#amd #kernel #linux
Phoronix
AVX-512 xor_gen For Linux Updated & Looking Real Good For RAID Arrays
Being worked on the past few months for the Linux kernel has been an AVX-512 optimized version of xor_gen() that is used for generating and validating parity blocks such as with Linux's software RAID 5 and RAID 6 arrays
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📰 Linux Kernel 7.1 Reaches End of Life, It’s Time to Upgrade to Linux Kernel 7.2
Linux kernel 7.1 reached end of life and all users are now recommended to upgrade their systems to the latest Linux 7.2 kernel series as soon as possible.
🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/linux-kernel-7-1-reaches-end-of-life-its-time-to-upgrade-to-linux-kernel-7-2
#kernel #linux
Linux kernel 7.1 reached end of life and all users are now recommended to upgrade their systems to the latest Linux 7.2 kernel series as soon as possible.
🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/linux-kernel-7-1-reaches-end-of-life-its-time-to-upgrade-to-linux-kernel-7-2
#kernel #linux
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📰 Grml 2026.09 Linux Distro Is Out with Linux Kernel 7.1, Based on Debian 14 Forky
Grml 2026.09 GNU/Linux distribution is now available for download based on Debian Testing/Forky and powered by Linux kernel 7.1. Here’s what’s new!
🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/grml-2026-09-linux-distro-is-out-with-linux-kernel-7-1-based-on-debian-14-forky
#debian #distro #gnu #kernel #linux
Grml 2026.09 GNU/Linux distribution is now available for download based on Debian Testing/Forky and powered by Linux kernel 7.1. Here’s what’s new!
🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/grml-2026-09-linux-distro-is-out-with-linux-kernel-7-1-based-on-debian-14-forky
#debian #distro #gnu #kernel #linux
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📰 Linux 7.4 To Improve Apple Silicon Audio Support & Its "Impossible" Power Management
The Apple Silicon audio driver code within the Linux kernel is preparing to make use of the recent shared GPIO infrastructure for allowing multiple drivers / kernel components to nicely share the same GPIO lines. This should help clean things up in the mainline kernel for the Apple Silicon audio support and with a cleaner architecture than the current downstream Asahi Linux code...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Apple-Audio-Shared-GPIO
#kernel #linux
The Apple Silicon audio driver code within the Linux kernel is preparing to make use of the recent shared GPIO infrastructure for allowing multiple drivers / kernel components to nicely share the same GPIO lines. This should help clean things up in the mainline kernel for the Apple Silicon audio support and with a cleaner architecture than the current downstream Asahi Linux code...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Apple-Audio-Shared-GPIO
#kernel #linux
Phoronix
Linux 7.4 To Improve Apple Silicon Audio Support & Its "Impossible" Power Management
The Apple Silicon audio driver code within the Linux kernel is preparing to make use of the recent shared GPIO infrastructure for allowing multiple drivers / kernel components to nicely share the same GPIO lines
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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. 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
Phoronix
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
Phoronix
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
Phoronix
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
Phoronix
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
Phoronix
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
Phoronix
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
Collabora | Open Source Consulting
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
Phoronix
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
Phoronix
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
Phoronix
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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📰 Intel BFF Driver Slated For Linux 7.4 Introduction
Last month I covered Intel posting a new driver named "BFF" for the Linux kernel. This BFF driver is for a new hardware feature debuting with next-gen Diamond Rapids processors for better dealing with aging CPU silicon where some bits may become stuck over time...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-BFF-Driver-For-Linux-7.4
#intel #kernel #linux
Last month I covered Intel posting a new driver named "BFF" for the Linux kernel. This BFF driver is for a new hardware feature debuting with next-gen Diamond Rapids processors for better dealing with aging CPU silicon where some bits may become stuck over time...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-BFF-Driver-For-Linux-7.4
#intel #kernel #linux
Phoronix
Intel BFF Driver Slated For Linux 7.4 Introduction
Last month I covered Intel posting a new driver named 'BFF' for the Linux kernel
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📰 Ubuntu 24.04.5 LTS Is Now Available for Download with Linux 7.0 and Mesa 26.2
Ubuntu 24.04.5 LTS (Noble Numbat) is now available for download powered by Linux kernel 7.0 and Mesa 26.2 graphics stack from Ubuntu 26.04 LTS (Resolute Raccoon).
🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/ubuntu-24-04-5-lts-is-now-available-for-download-with-linux-7-0-and-mesa-26-2
#kernel #linux #ubuntu
Ubuntu 24.04.5 LTS (Noble Numbat) is now available for download powered by Linux kernel 7.0 and Mesa 26.2 graphics stack from Ubuntu 26.04 LTS (Resolute Raccoon).
🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/ubuntu-24-04-5-lts-is-now-available-for-download-with-linux-7-0-and-mesa-26-2
#kernel #linux #ubuntu
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📰 Linux Kernel is Getting Ready to Purge 55,00 Lines of Old 32-bit Arm Platform Code
These thirteen patches would delete the deprecated platform code, and the driver cleanup will follow later.
🔗 Source: https://feed.itsfoss.com/link/24361/17444682/linux-kernel-old-arm-code-removal
#arm #kernel #linux
These thirteen patches would delete the deprecated platform code, and the driver cleanup will follow later.
🔗 Source: https://feed.itsfoss.com/link/24361/17444682/linux-kernel-old-arm-code-removal
#arm #kernel #linux
It's FOSS
Linux Kernel is Getting Ready to Purge 55,00 Lines of Old 32-bit Arm Platform Code
These thirteen patches would delete the deprecated platform code, and the driver cleanup will follow later.
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📰 Building Tyr in Rust, part 3: Managing GPU memory
Tyr’s latest Rust GPU kernel driver work puts GPU memory management in place, from VM binding and GPUVM to GEM-backed buffers and firmware boot, moving key pieces upstream before tackling synchronization next.
🔗 Source: https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/blog/2026/08/26/building-tyr-in-rust-part-3-managing-gpu-memory/
#kernel #rust
Tyr’s latest Rust GPU kernel driver work puts GPU memory management in place, from VM binding and GPUVM to GEM-backed buffers and firmware boot, moving key pieces upstream before tackling synchronization next.
🔗 Source: https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/blog/2026/08/26/building-tyr-in-rust-part-3-managing-gpu-memory/
#kernel #rust
Collabora | Open Source Consulting
Building Tyr in Rust, part 3: Managing GPU memory
Tyr’s Rust GPU driver gains core memory-management support, including GPUVM, GEM buffers, and firmware boot, as upstream work continues toward synchronization.
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📰 Patches Ready For AMDGPU HDMI 2.1 Enabled By Default With Linux 7.4 With FreeSync, VRR & ALLM
Linux 7.4 is now set to reach the elusive milestone of HDMI 2.1 support for the AMDGPU kernel graphics driver. After the HDMI Forum previously rejected HDMI 2.1 for the AMDGPU open-source driver implementation going back years, earlier this year something changed -- widely speculated to be with Valve's involvement -- that HDMI 2.1 patches began appearing for the AMDGPU driver. With the upcoming Linux 7.
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.4-AMDGPU-HDMI-2.1-Go
#kernel #linux #opensource
Linux 7.4 is now set to reach the elusive milestone of HDMI 2.1 support for the AMDGPU kernel graphics driver. After the HDMI Forum previously rejected HDMI 2.1 for the AMDGPU open-source driver implementation going back years, earlier this year something changed -- widely speculated to be with Valve's involvement -- that HDMI 2.1 patches began appearing for the AMDGPU driver. With the upcoming Linux 7.
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.4-AMDGPU-HDMI-2.1-Go
#kernel #linux #opensource
Phoronix
Patches Ready For AMDGPU HDMI 2.1 Enabled By Default With Linux 7.4 With FreeSync, VRR & ALLM
Linux 7.4 is now set to reach the elusive milestone of HDMI 2.1 support for the AMDGPU kernel graphics driver
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📰 Linux's IO_uring Sees Some "Crazy" Patches That Deliver Very Nice Improvements
Linux block subsystem maintainer and IO_uring lead developer Jens Axboe continues to uncover new opportunities for making the wonderful IO_uring framework even more performant within the Linux kernel. For ending out the week he's posted some "crazy" patches delivering some significant gains...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-IO-uring-Crazy-Friday
#kernel #linux
Linux block subsystem maintainer and IO_uring lead developer Jens Axboe continues to uncover new opportunities for making the wonderful IO_uring framework even more performant within the Linux kernel. For ending out the week he's posted some "crazy" patches delivering some significant gains...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-IO-uring-Crazy-Friday
#kernel #linux
Phoronix
Linux's IO_uring Sees Some "Crazy" Patches That Deliver Very Nice Improvements
Linux block subsystem maintainer and IO_uring lead developer Jens Axboe continues to uncover new opportunities for making the wonderful IO_uring framework even more performant within the Linux kernel
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