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      Linux 7.1 To Prevent Intel NPUs From Being Exhausted By Single Programs

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 March 2026

    The Intel IVPU accelerator driver will be introducing limits on Intel NPU resource usage by non-root user-space programs beginning with the Linux 7.1 kernel...
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      AMD HSMP Linux Driver Preps For Zen 6 EPYC With Finer Power Controls

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 March 2026

    The AMD Host System Management Port (HSMP) Linux driver that provides access to various system management features on modern EPYC server processors is preparing for the upcoming EPYC Zen 6 "Venice" processors...
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      Intel GMA500 "Poulsbo" Driver Still Seeing New Open-Source Activity In 2026

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 March 2026

    Approaching twenty years after Intel's Poulsbo platform began giving Linux users nightmares due to its Imagination PowerVR SGX graphics IP that blocked open-source 3D driver support, the GMA500 driver that ended up coming about to provide open-source display support at least is still seeing occasional upstream activity for the Linux kernel...
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      libavif 1.4 Released For Advancing AVIF Image Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 March 2026

    The Alliance For Open Media on Wednesday released libavif 1.4, the latest version of this reference library for encoding and decoding AV1 Image File Format (AVIF) content...
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      Intel Xe Linux Driver Ready With Fix For Brand New Lenovo ThinkPad T14 Gen 7 Laptop

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 March 2026

    This week at MWC 2026, Lenovo announced the ThinkPad T14 Gen 7 as one of their new Intel Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake" powered laptops alongside other products. With Panther Lake running rather well on Linux, the new ThinkPad T14 G7 should be in good standing on Linux and especially with a pending Xe graphics driver fix that is on the way...
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      Notice: Brief Downtime Expected Overnight

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 March 2026

    Just a heads up that some brief downtime to Phoronix.com is expected overnight during the replacement of an NVMe drive in the RAID array for this web server...
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      FEX 2603 Released With A Partial Fix For The Steam GUI Crashing On AArch64

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 March 2026

    FEX 2603 as the Valve-sponsored open-source project allowing Linux x86/x86_64 binaries to run on AArch64 Linux -- including the likes of Steam and various games as will become important with the Steam Frame -- is now out with its newest monthly release...
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      Intel Begins Preparations For Xe3P Upstreaming To Open-Source OpenGL & Vulkan Drivers

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 4 March 2026

    Following the mainline Linux kernel beginning to see Xe3P graphics enablement for upcoming Nova Lake integrated graphics as well as the Crescent Island AI inference accelerator, Intel's Mesa OpenGL "Iris" and Vulkan "ANV" drivers are preparing to begin laying out their Xe3P driver support...
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      AMD EPYC Achieves 5G/6G RAN Performance Leadership With New OCUDU Project

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 4 March 2026

    Announced this week at Mobile World Congress (MWC) by the Linux Foundation was the establishing of the OCUDU Ecosystem Foundation for advancing open-source AI-RAN (Radio Access Network) innovations. OCUDU is building a reference platform and innovations around 5G and early 6G network solutions. With OCUDU being benchmark-friendly, I have been putting the early code through some performance tests on current AMD EPYC and Intel Xeon server platforms.