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      Linus Torvalds: "The AI Slop Issue Is *NOT* Going To Be Solved With Documentation"

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 8 January 2026

    The Linux kernel developers for months now have been debating proposed guidelines for tool-generated submissions to the Linux kernel. As part of the "tools", the main motivator for this documentation has been around the era of AI and large language models with coding assistants and more. Torvalds made some remarks on the Linux kernel mailing list around his belief in focusing the documentation on "tools" rather than explicitly focusing on AI, given the likelihood of AI-assisted contributions continuing regardless of documentation...
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      Linux Patches Enable Intel GPU Firmware Updating From Non-x86 Systems

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 8 January 2026

    The modern Intel Xe kernel graphics driver was designed from the start to be more broadly compatible with non-x86 architectures given their discrete graphics processors being front and center, unlike the legacy i915 kernel graphics driver being very x86 minded. While this allows running Intel Arc Graphics on ARM or RISC-V, there are some other kinks still being ironed out with using Intel graphics in the non-x86 world. One of those limitations currently being worked through is the lack of GPU firmware updating on non-x86 systems...
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      Etnaviv Driver Wires Up PPU Flop Reset Support Needed By Some Vivante Hardware

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 8 January 2026

    Sent out today was the latest batch of drm-misc-next changes to DRM-Next for staging ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.20~7.0 kernel cycle. The reverse-engineered Etnaviv DRM driver for Vivante graphics/NPU hardware has added a new "PPU flop reset" feature gleaned off studying the downstream vendor kernel driver...
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      Linux Kernel Considers Linking The Relocatable x86 Kernel As PIE In 2026

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 8 January 2026

    To allow for additional security hardening of the Linux kernel, a patch series has been updated more than one year later to link the relocatable x86_64 kernel as Position Independent Executable (PIE) code...
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      FEX 2601 Brings Various Fixes, Improvements For Wine & DXVK/VKD3D-Proton

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 8 January 2026

    FEX, the open-source emulator for running x86 and x86_64 binaries on AArch64 (ARM64) Linux and that is sponsored by Valve and to be used by the Steam Frame, is out with a new monthly feature release...
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      AMD Linux GPU Driver Improvement Coming For DP-HDMI Dongles

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 7 January 2026

    For those using a DisplayPort to HDMI dongle currently with the AMDGPU Linux kernel graphics driver may find some higher resolutions / modes unavailable. Fortunately, a fix is on the way for dealing with this situation due to an oversight in the kernel driver...
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      Intel FSP Improvements With Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake"

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 7 January 2026

    While for years open-source firmware enthusiasts have been after an open-source Firmware Support Package "FSP" for Intel CPUs and back during Raja Koduri's tenure at Intel it sounded like it might happen, it has yet to happen. But at least with the forthcoming Intel Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake" there are some FSP improvements...
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      Dell Pro Max GB10 vs. AMD Ryzen AI Max+ Framework Desktop For Llama.cpp, OpenCL & Vulkan Compute

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 7 January 2026

    Over the past number of weeks the Dell Pro Max with GB10 has been undergoing a lot of testing at Phoronix. This NVIDIA GB10 powered mini PC with its 20 Arm cores (10 x Cortex-X925, 10 x Cortex-A725) and Blackwell GPU offers a lot of combined compute potential for AI and other workloads. In this article is a look at how the Dell Pro Max with GB10 competes with AMD's Ryzen AI Max+ 395 "Strix Halo" within the Framework Desktop SFF PC.
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      Next-Gen AMD Server SoCs To Enjoy Firmware-Agnostic Platform Configuration Approach

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 7 January 2026

    Next-generation AMD server SoCs -- presumably the AMD EPYC "Venice" on Zen 6 -- is poised to introduce a firmware-agnostic platform configuration platform configuration change method/format. This is This aims to improve server platform interoperability and eliminate redundant configuration efforts for different firmware solutions...