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      Linux 7.0 Performance Events Prep For Intel Xeon Diamond Rapids

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 February 2026

    The performance "perf" events changes for the Linux 7.0 kernel are continuing to prepare for next-generation Xeon Diamond Rapids processors as the successor to current Xeon 6 Granite Rapids...
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      Intel Is Making It Easier In Linux 7.0 To Monitor Energy Use For A Group Of Tasks

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 February 2026

    Intel has upstreamed some Resource Control "resctrl" improvements to Linux 7.0 for enhanced telemetry monitoring. This is the good kind of telemetry with this new code being useful for being able to monitor how much energy or work is attributed to a group of tasks / process IDs on the system...
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      Linux 7.0 Removes Support For Signing Modules With Insecure SHA-1

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 February 2026

    The Linux 7.0 kernel has removed support for signing kernel modules using SHA-1 as it's no longer considered secure but existing SHA-1 signed modules can still be loaded...
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      Media Driver Updates Merged For Linux 7.0 - Still Without The AMD ISP4 Driver

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 February 2026

    All of the media subsystem driver updates have been merged for the in-development Linux 7.0 kernel and brings some new work around AV1 acceleration as well as other driver updates...
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      Linux 7.0 Graphics Drivers See New AMD Hardware, Intel Xe SR-IOV + Multi-Device SVM

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 February 2026

    The massive set of Linux kernel graphics/display driver Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) updates were sent out and merged today for the Linux 7.0 kernel. This also includes the growing work around accelerator "accel" drivers for AI NPUs and the like...
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      Linus Torvalds Rejects MMC Changes For Linux 7.0 Cycle: "Complete Garbage"

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11 February 2026

    The Linux MultiMediaCard "MMC" subsystem was set to see some new hardware support, optimized support for secure erase/trim on some eMMCs, and a variety of other improvements. But all of the MMC changes are rejected and will be for the duration of the Linux 7.0 cycle due to an apparent lack of testing and vetting via linux-next that led Linus Torvalds to calling it "complete garbage" and "untested crap"...
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      Linux Kernel Graphics Driver Development Now Experimenting With AI Code Review

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11 February 2026

    Well known open-source Linux graphics driver developer David Airlie of Red Hat, who is the co-maintainer of the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) kernel graphics/display drivers and accelerator "accel" drivers, announced experimental work on AI-drive code/patch review for these open-source kernel drivers...
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      Sabayon Linux Creator Now Developing Gentoo-Based, Immutable matrixOS

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11 February 2026

    Longtime Linux users may recall the Sabayon Linux distribution that was Gentoo-based and focused on a nice out-of-the-box experience from the mid 2000s through 2019 before fading away after 2018. Sabayon Linux creator Fabio Erculiani wrote in to Phoronix today to announce he's begun working on a new Linux distribution called matrixOS...
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      Mesa 26.0 Released With Much Better Radeon Ray-Tracing, Many Vulkan Driver Improvements

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11 February 2026

    Mesa 26.0 was just officially released as this quarter's new feature release for these open-source OpenGL / Gallium3D and Vulkan drivers used commonly on Linux systems and elsewhere like within the confines of Microsoft's WSL...