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      Linux 7.0 Driver Core Changes Bring More Enhancements For Rust Kernel Drivers

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16 February 2026

    Merged a few days ago for the Linux 7.0 kernel were all of the driver core enhancements. As has been the common theme in recent kernel releases, a lot of the driver core code churn revolves around additions for allowing more Rust kernel driver usage...
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      Linux 6.19.2 & Other LTS Kernels Released To Fix Systems Not Booting

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16 February 2026

    Linux 6.19.1 was released earlier today while it's since been replaced by Linux 6.19.2 to address fallout from that first point release with some systems not booting. This also resulted in new LTS kernel releases too due to the problematic code being picked up there too...
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      Arc B390 Graphics With Panther Lake Performing Great On Open-Source Intel Compute Runtime

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16 February 2026

    This month I have been doing a lot of Panther Lake benchmarking under Linux with the Core Ultra X7 358H. One of the areas of much interest has been the Arc B390 Xe3 graphics that have been working nicely out-of-the-box with the Intel open-source driver stack on Linux although there still are some gaps to fill against Windows. Those Intel Arc B390 Linux benchmarks so far have been focused on OpenGL and Vulkan graphics, but what about OpenCL and GPU compute with the open-source Intel Compute Runtime? Today's article is looking at the performance of the Xe3 Panther Lake graphics on the newest Compute Runtime release compared to prior Intel graphics generations and the AMD Ryzen AI competition.
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      Linux 7.0 Better Segregates Legacy CardBus Code To Avoid On Modern PCs

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16 February 2026

    The PCI subsystem updates for Linux 7.0 are aplenty as usual and contain a wide assortment of different fixes and code improvements...
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      Firmware Upstreamed For Supporting The Qualcomm Snapdragon X2's Adreno GPU

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16 February 2026

    Upstreamed last week to the linux-firmware.git repository by Qualcomm was the GPU firmware files needed for enabling the Adreno GPU on the new Snapdragon X2 Elite laptop SoC...
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      OpenRISC With Linux 7.0 Improves Out-Of-The-Box Support For More FPGA Dev Boards

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16 February 2026

    While the OpenRISC project began ten years before RISC-V was started, it hasn't enjoyed the hardware ecosystem successes of the latter but still the upstream Linux kernel support continues moving forward and the ability to run OpenRISC on FPGA developer boards...
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      InputPlumber 0.74 Released With Hardware Support Improvements

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16 February 2026

    InputPlumber 0.74 is now available for this open-source input routing and control daemon for Linux systems. InputPlumber enables combining of multiple input devices, emulating different inputs, and a variety of other features particularly of benefit for Linux gaming...
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      Linux 6.19.1 Released To Ship Some Early Fixes & Device Quirks

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16 February 2026

    For those preferring to wait for the first point release of a new Linux kernel version before upgrading, Linux 6.19.1 is out today to address some early bugs that made it into the Linux 6.19 kernel stable release one week ago...
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      Linux 7.0 Merges The Code To Replace The Tux Boot Logo At Build Time

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16 February 2026

    Linus Torvalds merged the code this weekend that allows easily replacing the Tux penguin boot logo used during the boot process. This new code optionally allows specifying an alternative boot logo at compile/build time...