📰 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

📰 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

📰 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

📰 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

📰 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

📰 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

📰 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

📰 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'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

📰 Intel Linux NPU Driver Only Now Officially Supports Ubuntu 26.04 LTS

Releasing on Friday was the Intel Linux NPU Driver 1.38 as the user-space open-source driver components for leveraging the Core Ultra Neural Processing Unit (NPU) under Linux in conjunction with the upstream IVPU kernel accelerator driver...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Linux-NPU-Driver-1.38

#intel #kernel #linux #opensource #ubuntu

📰 Debian 13.7 Released with 107 Security Updates and 106 Bug Fixes

Debian 13.7 is out with 107 security updates and 106 bug fixes, plus installer, kernel ABI, Cinnamon, glibc, and package updates.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/debian-13-7-released-with-107-security-updates-and-106-bug-fixes/

#debian #kernel

📰 KaOS 2026.09 Released with Dinit, Niri, and Noctalia 5.1

KaOS 2026.09 is out with a Dinit-based system, Niri 26.04, Noctalia 5.1, Linux kernel 7.1, and Limine as the default bootloader.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/kaos-2026-09-released-with-dinit-niri-and-noctalia-5-1/

#kernel #linux

📰 BFS File-System Being Removed For Linux 7.4

The latest upstream file-system to be removed from the mainline Linux kernel is... BFS...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/BFS-Filesystem-To-Be-Removed

#kernel #linux

📰 Zstd Improvement For Linux 7.4 To Avoid Redundant Initialization

In addition to Usama Arif's recent Linux patches for addressing a major inefficiency within the Linux kernel's Zstd compression code, he also has a separate patch series destined for Linux 7.4 to further enhance the Zstd compression/decompression performance by avoiding redundant initialization...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Zstd-Linux-7.4-Avoid-Redundant

#kernel #linux