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      Intel Graphics Driver Preps For UHBR DP Tunnels With Linux 7.1

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16 March 2026

    A round of Intel graphics driver updates were sent today to DRM-Next in staging ahead of April's Linux 7.1 merge window. The changes in this pull aren't too particularly exciting with a lot of code refactoring and other work, but there are preparations made for supporting UHBR DP tunnels...
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      Lenovo Legion Go HID Drivers Queued Ahead Of Linux 7.1

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16 March 2026

    The work by Derek Clark on enhancing the Lenovo Legion Go gaming handheld support for Linux continues panning out nicely. The latest driver effort, the creation of the Lenovo Legion Go and Go S Series HID Drivers to help with controller configuration, is set to be introduced in Linux 7.1...
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      Linux 7.1 To Retire UDP-Lite - Allows For Better Performance With Cleansed Code

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16 March 2026

    The upcoming Linux 7.1 kernel cycle is set to retire UDP-Lite support. The UDP-Lite protocol allowed for partial checksums where potentially damaged/corrupted packets are still delivered to the application. Since the Linux 2.6.20 days there has been UDP-Lite support but the kernel is now set to retire it given breakage that has persisted for years and cleaning up the networking code can yield a performance advantage for non-UDP-Lite users...
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      RADV Driver Lands Another Optimization: "Missing In RADV For A Very Long Time"

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16 March 2026

    A four year old optimization idea for the RADV driver was scratched off the TODO list last week for next quarter's Mesa 26.1 release...
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      AMD Preps More Graphics Driver Code For Linux 7.1

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16 March 2026

    Last week yet more AMDGPU kernel graphics driver updates were submitted to DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 7.1 merge window happening in April...
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      Linux 7.0-rc4 Released With Hang Fixes, Resolves At Least One Performance Regression

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15 March 2026

    We are down to about one month to go until the Linux 7.0 stable release and out today is Linux 7.0-rc4...
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      Bcachefs 1.37 Released With Linux 7.0 Support, Erasure Coding Stable & New Sub-Commands

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15 March 2026

    Kent Overstreet today released Bcachefs 1.37 as the newest feature release to this out-of-tree file-system driver and user-space tooling for this next-gen, copy-on-write file-system...
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      Linux 7.0 Lands Improvements To Deal With Upcoming Rust Changes, Build Reproducibility

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15 March 2026

    Merged to mainline yesterday for Linux 7.0 were yet more Rust changes in preparing for upcoming Rust releases as well as enhancing the kernel build reproducibility when engaging the Rust code...
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      Hangs & Performance Regression On Large Systems Fixed For Linux 7.0-rc4

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15 March 2026

    This week's "sched/urgent" pull request was sent out today of scheduler updates for the ongoing Linux 7.0 cycle. Notable this week are fixing some hangs as well as a possible performance regression on large systems...