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      AMD InterWave ISA Sound Card Driver Seeing New Linux Patches In 2026

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 7 April 2026

    For those that like to make remarks about AMD "fine wine" especially when it comes to open-source Linux drivers and/or nostalgic about feature work on really old hardware, to much amusement there are new patches today for the AMD InterWave ISA sound card from the 1990s...
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      Ubuntu 26.04 Provides More Performance For AMD Ryzen AI Max "Strix Halo"

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 7 April 2026

    Last week I provided benchmarks to quantify how the AMD Strix Halo graphics performance has evolved since launch one year ago, in today's article is a look at how the Zen 5 CPU performance with the flagship Ryzen AI Max+ 395 has evolved under Linux in the year since these exciting APUs began making their way to high-end laptops and desktops. Complementing the nice Radeon 8060S performance gains are also some nice CPU performance benefits quantified when using Ubuntu 26.04.
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      Intel QAT Driver With Linux 7.1 Adding Zstd Offload Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 7 April 2026

    The Intel QuickAssist "QAT" driver for the mainline Linux 7.1 kernel is adding support for Zstd offloading across QuickAssist Gen 4 / Gen 5 / Gen 6 accelerators for Zstandard compression as well as Zstandard decompression (limited there to the latest Gen 6 hardware)...
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      Linux's Second-In-Command Turns To New Fuzzing Tools For Uncovering Kernel Bugs

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 7 April 2026

    Greg Kroah-Hartman, the main Linux stable kernel maintainer and typically viewed as the second-in-command to the Linux kernel development, has turned to new "gregkh_clanker_t1000" fuzzing tooling to help uncover new kernel bugs...
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      Framework Reports More Memory Cost Increases, Some Good News For Framework 16

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 7 April 2026

    Framework Computer on Monday issued their latest update concerning the ongoing price increases for memory and solid state drives affecting the industry. There has been some more price increases, signs of some temporary reprieve, and then a bit of good news on pricing for select Framework hardware...
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      AMD ISP4 Driver On Track To Be Merged For Linux 7.2

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 7 April 2026

    It looks like with the Linux 7.2 kernel later in the year the AMD ISP4 driver will finally be merged to mainline. This driver is needed for the web camera on the HP ZBook Ultra G1a Strix Halo laptop and other future AMD Ryzen laptops...
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      RISC-V XIP Linux Feature Being Removed After It Keeps Breaking For Months At A Time

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 7 April 2026

    Introduced in Linux 5.13 back in 2021 was eXecute In Place "XIP" support for RISC-V that allows for the kernel image to be executed from ROM. The intent is on allowing the kernel to run from non-volatile storage like NOR flash that is directly addressable by the CPU and to reduce RAM usage. But after RISC-V XIP support is broken for months at a time, the feature is now set to be retired from the mainline kernel...
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      Mesa Granted Permanent Updates Exception For Fedora Linux

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 7 April 2026

    It doesn't change too much in practice with how Mesa updates typically have been handled under Fedora Linux, but now it's officially documented: Mesa graphics drivers have a permanent updates exception so new Mesa versions can be shipped as updates in Fedora stable releases...
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      Lemonade 10.1 Released For Latest Improvements For Local LLMs On AMD GPUs & NPUs

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 7 April 2026

    Following last month's Lemonade SDK 10.0 release that finally makes AMD Ryzen AI NPUs under Linux useful for running large language models (LLMs) where as before the Linux build could only target GPUs, released on Monday was Lemonade 10.1 with more enhancements to this local LLM solution...