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      Denial WM: New Wayland Compositor With Flutter Directly Embedded

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 August 2026

    The newest Wayland compositor to talk about and discuss is Denial, a Wayland compositor focused on optimal Arch Linux integration and that embeds the Flutter engine directly into the codebase. Denial makes use of the Rust programming language and leverages Smithay to help in the compositor responsibilities...
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      Cloudflare Announces Open-Source Cloudflare OS As AI "Operating System"

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 August 2026

    Cloudflare today announced the open-sourcing of Cloudflare OS as an "open platform for agents, apps, and work." Cloudflare OS is an AI "operating system" but not in the traditional OS sense...
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      Linux To Avoid Confusing Processor Firmware With Newer Intel CPUs Sporting DEC

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 August 2026

    A patch for the Intel P-State CPU frequency scaling Linux driver is pending to avoid confusing the processor firmware on newer platforms like Intel Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake" where Dynamic Efficiency Control (DEC) is supported...
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      Additional Old Linux Drivers Face Removal Due To Noise From AI/LLM Coding Agents

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 August 2026

    There continues to be a lout of cleaning up of the kernel source tree to deal with noise generated by AI / LLM coding agents sending in reports and patches for old drivers that are likely not actively used by anyone on modern upstream kernel builds. Rather than continuing to carry these old drivers around with the uptick in AI/LLM-generated noise, kernel maintainers are finding it better to just retire the old drivers...
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      AMD Preps HDMI FRL Fixes, New Knob For Disabling Older AMD GPU DCE Display Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 August 2026

    Overnight AMD engineers sent out their latest round of AMDGPU DC display code updates for their Linux driver. This week's round of display code updates include some additional fixes for their recently introduced HDMI FRL (Fixed Rate Link) support as part of the work toward their HDMI 2.1 implementation finally coming together for their open-source, upstream Linux driver...
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      FEX 2608 Released With More Fixes For Running x86_64 Binaries On ARM64

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 August 2026

    FEX 2608 is now available as the newest monthly feature update to this open-source emulator sponsored by Valve for running x86_64 binaries on ARM64, including Steam and Windows games with Steam Play (Proton)...
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      AMD Posts Proposal & Linux Patches For eSPI Subsystem

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 August 2026

    AMD has posted patches proposing a new Linux subsystem for the Enhanced Serial Peripheral Interface (eSPI) standard that was in turn originally developed by Intel. With AMD now making use of eSPI, they are proposing a new subsystem for it within the Linux kernel, which includes a new driver for their hardware...
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      AMD openSIL & Coreboot Pull Requests For Phoenix AM5 Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 4 August 2026

    Last week the 3mdeb firmware consulting firm released the first open-source firmware for a modern AMD Ryzen AM5 platform with their work to port AMD openSIL and Coreboot in their downstream Dasharo flavor to an MSI desktop ATX motherboard. Now that it's working out well, 3mdeb is working to upstream their AM5 platform support and Phoenix SoC support into upstream AMD openSIL as well as Coreboot...
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      NVIDIA Becomes A Premier Sponsor Of LVFS / Fwupd

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 4 August 2026

    Now this is a pleasant and very unexpected surprise... NVIDIA has become the latest premier sponsor of the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS)...