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      Mesa 26.0 RADV Lands Dedicated Transfer-Only Queue Using SDMA

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9 January 2026

    There is another open-source Radeon Vulkan driver (RADV) improvement to look forward to in the upcoming Mesa 26.0 release that was worked on by one of Valve's Linux graphics driver developers...
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      QEMU 11.0 Could Finish Removing 32-bit Host CPU Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9 January 2026

    The QEMU emulator already deprecated 32-bit host CPU support while for the QEMU 11.0 release this year they could eliminate the 32-bit host support for good...
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      Linux 6.19-rc5 To Fix Broken Nouveau Driver With Newer NVIDIA GPUs

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9 January 2026

    Now past the end-of-year holidays, this round of Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) fixes for the in-development Linux 6.19 are a bit more meaningful following those light holiday weeks. Sent out today were the DRM fixes for Linux 6.19-rc5 that includes a fix for broken support for newer NVIDIA GPUs on the Nouveau open-source driver...
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      Latest SteamOS Beta Now Includes NTSYNC Kernel Driver

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9 January 2026

    Valve released the SteamOS 3.7.20 beta overnight and with it they are finally building the NTSYNC kernel driver for helping accelerate Windows NT synchronization primitives...
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      Qualcomm Sends Out Linux Patches For RAS Support On RISC-V For Reporting Hardware Errors

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9 January 2026

    The latest work by Qualcomm on the RISC-V CPU architecture is sending out their first non-RFC patch series for enabling Reliability, Availability and Serviceability (RAS) support by making use of the RISC-V RERI specification. This RISC-V RAS support is useful for conveying hardware errors to users and will be especially important with future RISC-V Linux servers...
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      Mesa 26.0 RADV Merges The Big Ray-Tracing Improvement For UE5 Lumen

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 8 January 2026

    The RADV ray-tracing improvement covered earlier this week for some big performance gains for Unreal Engine 5 titles running under Linux thanks to Steam Play has been merged for Mesa 25.0...
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      Logitech MX Anywhere 3S Mouse With Linux 6.19 Now Supports High Resolution Scrolling

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 8 January 2026

    For those that happen to have a Logitech MX Anywhere 3S mouse connected via Bluetooth, the upcoming Linux 6.19 kernel release is enabling HID++ support for it to enjoy high resolution scrolling and other functionality of the updated protocol...
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      Mesa 26.0 Now Supports GPU Hardware Replay With The Intel Xe Kernel Driver

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 8 January 2026

    The Intel Mesa graphics drivers have supported a GPU hardware replay feature for making it easier to reproduce issues. But until now that functionality has only worked with the i915 kernel driver while for Mesa 26.0 the Intel Xe driver will also be supported...
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      Linux 6.18 LTS vs. Liquorix Kernel On AMD Ryzen Threadripper Workstation Performance

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 8 January 2026

    It's been a while since running benchmarks of the Liquorix kernel as an enthusiast-tailored downstream version of the Linux kernel focused on responsiveness for gaming, audio/video production, and other creator/enthusiast workloads. In today's article is a look at how the latest Liquorix kernel derived from Linux 6.18 is competing against the upstream Linux 6.18 LTS kernel on the same system.