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Linux 6.14 To Add Support For SpacemiT's "Energy Efficient AI" RISC-V CPUs

The upcoming Linux 6.14 kernel is poised to introduce initial support for SpacemiT platforms, the Chinese computing chip company developing "next-generation RISC-V high-performance CPUs." For this next Linux kernel release the SpaceMiT Key Stone K1 oct...

2025-01-17 10:02

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LibreOffice 25.2 RC2 For Last Minute Testing This Updated Free Software Office Suite

LibreOffice 25.2 RC2 is out today with the official release of this updated open-source office suite coming in just about two weeks...

2025-01-17 08:35

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Fedora 42 Boot Splash Screen Looks To Workaround GPU Drivers Taking Too Long To Load

Linux kernel graphics drivers have been growing too much in size that they are taking too long to load at boot time for quickly lighting up the display to present the nice Plymouth boot splash experience. This has led to situations of the Plymouth boot...

2025-01-17 07:02

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AMDXDNA Submitted For Linux 6.14 With Kernel Accelerator/Graphics Driver Updates

Due to Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) lead maintainer David Airlie of Red Hat going on holidays the next two weeks, he's preemptively submitted the DRM/accelerator feature pull request ahead of the Linux 6.14 merge window officially opening...

2025-01-17 06:38

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In Case You Wondered, RADV Doesn't Work On AMD CDNA Instinct Accelerators

Samuel Pitoiset of Valve's Linux graphics driver team landed some changes on Thursday to the open-source RADV driver within Mesa around GPU checks for the hardware supported by this popular AMD Vulkan driver on Linux systems...

2025-01-17 06:14

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RadeonSI UVD/VCE Video Acceleration Improvements Merged For Mesa 25.0

At the start of the new year I talked about patches improving AMD Radeon video encode/decode for older GPUs. That work to the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver's UVD and VCE support has now been merged ahead of the Mesa 25.0 code branching coming up in just ov...

2025-01-17 05:59

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PCI Express 7.0 Remains On Track For 2025, v0.7 Spec Published

Back in 2022 the PCI Express 7.0 specification was announced with hitting 128 GT/s and planned availability in 2025. Since then they have been iterating on the spec with PCI-SIG members and today they announced the PCI Express 7.0 v0.7 specification...

2025-01-16 20:25

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The Most Exciting Kernel Optimizations, New Hardware Support & Other Linux 6.13 Features

With Linus Torvalds expected to release Linux 6.13 stable this coming Sunday, 19 January, here's a reminder about the most exciting features, performance optimizations, and new hardware support arriving for this first major kernel release of 2025...

2025-01-16 10:58

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Intel Arc B570 Graphics Performance On Linux

Last month when Intel formally introduced Battlemage graphics their initial products in the B-Series were the B570 and B580 graphics cards. The B580 went on sale in December and we've been busy testing the B580 on Linux since while today the embargo ex...

2025-01-16 09:00

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AMDGPU VirtIO Native Context Merged: Native AMD Driver Support Within Guest VMs

An exciting change was just merged into Mesa 25.0 that has been about two years in the making... AMDGPU native context support for VirtIO to allow for using native OpenGL and Vulkan graphics drivers within guest virtual machines for better performance...

2025-01-16 08:43

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Fedora KDE Plasma Edition Aims To Appeal To Multimedia Enthusiasts & Content Creators

Back in November it was decided that the Fedora KDE Desktop Spin would be promoted to the same tier as the GNOME-based Fedora Workstation. Fedora KDE as an "Edition" status for Fedora 42 will now be on the same level as Fedora Workstation Edition. More...

2025-01-16 07:03

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CXL Address Translation Support For AMD Zen 5 Sees Linux Patches

A set of Linux kernel patches posted by AMD engineers last week are working on enhancing the CXL address translation support between the HPA decoder and system physical memory addresses. These patches get that CXL address translation support working fo...

2025-01-16 06:48

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AT_EXECVE_CHECK Submitted For Linux 6.14 To Help With Consistent Security

In anticipation of the Linux 6.14 merge window opening next week if Linux 6.13 releases as expected this coming Sunday, Google engineer Kees Cook has already sent out pull requests to Linus Torvalds of new feature code he's been aligning for the v6.14 ...

2025-01-16 06:27

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Expanding Web Camera Support Among Newer Intel Laptops Planned For Fedora 42

Red Hat engineer Hans de Goede wrote a blog post a few days ago around the Intel IPU6 and newer web camera support still being a challenge on Linux. While various Intel IPU6 open-source code has been upstreamed, there remain differences with a number o...

2025-01-16 06:13

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GCC Goes Ahead With The ARM64 ILP32 Deprecation

As a follow-up to the recent news around GCC considering deprecating ARM64 ILP32 support, the free software developers have indeed decided to move ahead in deprecating this 32-bit ABI for ARM64...

2025-01-16 06:02

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Fedora 42 Is Looking At Switching To EROFS For Its Live Media

A change proposal filed today for the in-development Fedora 42 is looking at making use of the EROFS file-system for all of the live media images...

2025-01-15 20:35

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Tiny Corp Nearing "Completely Sovereign" Compute Stack For AMD GPUs With Tinygrad

George Hotz' Tiny Corp that develops the Tinygrad neural network framework and sells the Tinybox NVIDIA and AMD powered AI workstations is nearing a "completely sovereign" software stack for GPU compute on AMD...

2025-01-15 16:54

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Tiny Corp Closing In On "Completely Sovereign" Compute Stack For AMD GPUs With Tinygrad

George Hotz' Tiny Corp that develops the Tinygrad neural network framework and sells the Tinybox NVIDIA and AMD powered AI workstations is nearing a "completely sovereign" software stack for GPU compute on AMD...

2025-01-15 16:49

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Intel THC Drivers To Be Submitted For Linux 6.14

The upcoming Linux 6.14 kernel cycle is poised to introduce support for Intel THC... The Touch Host Controller IP block found in the PCH of modern Intel laptops for dealing with touchscreen, touchpads, and similar functionality...

2025-01-15 14:49

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NVMe PCI Endpoint Function Target Driver Coming To Linux 6.14

An interesting new driver set to premiere in the upcoming Linux 6.14 kernel is the NVMe PCI Endpoint Function Target code authored by Western Digital...

2025-01-15 10:45

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