📰 Linux Lands Fix For Its "Subtly Wrong" Page Fault Handling Code For The Past 5 Years

Merged today for the Linux 6.19 Git kernel and then in turn for back-porting to prior Linux kernel series is making the x86 page fault handling code disable interrupts properly. Since 2020 it turns out the handling was subtly wrong but now corrected by Intel...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.19-Page-Fault-Code-Fix

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📰 LACT 0.8.4 Brings Improved Overclocking UI For GPUs On Linux

In the absence of any official GUI control panel from AMD or Intel for their graphics cards on Linux, LACT remains a popular choice particularly for AMD Radeon Linux gamers/enthusiasts to manage various aspects of their GPU from a convenient UI. LACT also supports Intel GPUs and some features on NVIDIA GPUs too. Out today is LACT 0.8.4 for further enhancing this third-party GPU driver user interface...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/LACT-0.8.4-Released

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📰 Intel Sends Out Initial Linux Patches For Xe3P_LPG Graphics With Nova Lake P

In recent months Intel Linux engineers have been quite active in preparing for next-gen Nova Lake processors. That work has included initial Xe3P graphics support and enabling display support and related display/graphics functionality. The newest now is enabling Nova Lake P including the Xe3P_LPG graphics support...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Xe3P-LPG-Nova-Lake-P

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📰 Intel ISPC 1.30 Released With AMX Support Added To The Standard Library

Intel ISPC 1.30 is now available as the latest feature update to their Implicit SPMD Program Compiler as a variant of the C programming language to easily target their array of CPUs and GPUs...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-ISPC-1.30-Released

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📰 3mdeb Talks Up AMD openSIL & Open-Source Firmware Efforts For Confidential Compute

Engineers Michał Żygowski and Piotr Król of open-source firmware consulting firm 3mdeb presented at FOSDEM in Brussels on open-source for confidential compute infrastructure. With Intel not making strides to fully open-up their FSP package, the talk was centered around the modern AMD open-source firmware efforts led by their openSIL initiative for open-source CPU silicon initialization to replace AGESA in the Zen 6 timeframe...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/3mdeb-FOSDEM-2026-Firmware

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📰 Intel Releases QATlib 26.02 With New APIs For Zero-Copy DMA

Of Intel's different CPU accelerator IPs, the arguably most useful and with the greatest customer interest remains around QuickAssist Technology (QAT). Intel QAT allows offloading various compression and encryption tasks for better performance. Intel this week released QATlib 26.02 as the newest version of their user-space library for leveraging QuickAssist Technology on capable hardware...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-QATlib-26.02

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📰 Intel Appears To Have Quietly Sunset "On Demand" Software Defined Silicon

Back in 2021 on Phoronix was first to report on Intel preparing Linux patches for a "Software Defined Silicon" feature for activating extra licensed hardware features. That Software Defined Silicon support continued moving forward and was then announced as Intel On Demand with a focus on users being able to pay to activate additional accelerators found on select SKUs but not enabled by default...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-On-Demand-SDSi-Sunset

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📰 GEEKOM A9 Max Review: Mini PC with AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370

Last summer GEEKOM released a pair of mini PCs with the latest Intel and AMD processors: the GEEKOM IT15 with an Intel Core Ultra 9 285H Arrow Lake processor and the GEEKOM A9 Max with an AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 Strix Point processor. When I reviewed the Intel model, I noted that the .

🔗 Source: https://liliputing.com/geekom-a9-max-review-mini-pc-with-amd-ryzen-ai-9-hx-370/

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📰 Intel CPU Microcode 20260210 Brings Security Updates & Functional Fixes

Intel today for Patch Tuesday released several generations worth of CPU microcode updates for addressing multiple security issues and functional issues...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-20260210-Microcode

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📰 Linux 7.0 Graphics Drivers See New AMD Hardware, Intel Xe SR-IOV + Multi-Device SVM

The massive set of Linux kernel graphics/display driver Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) updates were sent out and merged today for the Linux 7.0 kernel. This also includes the growing work around accelerator "accel" drivers for AI NPUs and the like...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.0-Graphics-Drivers

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📰 Lilbits: Android 17 Beta 1, Intel Arc B370 iGPU performance, and a $27 RLCD display with an ESP32-S3 chip

Waveshare is now selling a cheap dev board that combines a 4.2 inch, 400 x 300 pixel RLCD sunlight-readable, black and white “E-paper-like” low-power display with an ESP32-S3 processor featuring support for WiFi and Bluetooth. Available with a battery for $27 or without one for $25, the kit could be an interesting alternative to E .

🔗 Source: https://liliputing.com/lilbits-android-17-beta-1-intel-arc-b370-igpu-performance-and-a-27-rlcd-display-with-an-esp32-s3-chip/

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