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      New Linux Patch Improved NVMe Performance +15% With CPU Cluster-Aware Handling

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 20 January 2026

    Intel Linux engineers have been working on enhancing the NVMe storage performance with today's high core count processors. Due to situations where multiple CPUs could end up sharing the same NVMe IRQ(s), performance penalties can arise if the IRQ affinity and the CPU's cluster do not align. There is a pending patch to address this situation. A 15% performance improvement was reported with the pending patch...
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      Linux 6.19 ATA Fixes Address Power Management Regression For The Past Year

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 20 January 2026

    It's typically rare these days for the ATA subsystem updates in the Linux kernel to contain anything really noteworthy. But today some important fixes were merged for the ATA code to deal with a reported power management regression affecting the past number of Linux kernel releases over the last year. ATAPI devices with dummy ports weren't hitting their low-power state and in turn preventing the CPU from reaching low-power C-states but thankfully that is now resolved with this code...
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      System76 Continues Driving More Improvements Into The COSMIC Desktop

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 20 January 2026

    Following the December launch of Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS and the first major COSMIC desktop release, System76 software engineers have continued making improvements to their Rust-based desktop environment...
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      AMD Making It Easier To Install vLLM For ROCm

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 20 January 2026

    Deploying vLLM for LLM inference and serving on NVIDIA hardware can be as easy as pip3 install vllm. Beautifully simple just as many of the AI/LLM Python libraries can deploy straight-away and typically "just work" on NVIDIA. Running vLLM atop AMD Radeon/Instinct hardware though has traditionally meant either compiling vLLM from source yourself or AMD's recommended approach of using Docker containers that contain pre-built versions of vLLM. Finally there is now a blessed Python wheel for making it easier to install vLLM without Docker and leveraging ROCm...
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      LLVM Adopts "Human In The Loop" Policy For AI/Tool-Assisted Contributions

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 20 January 2026

    Following recent discussions over AI contributions to the LLVM open-source compiler project, they have come to an agreement on allowing AI/tool-assisted contributions but that there must be a human involved that is first looking over the code before opening any pull request and similar. Strictly AI-driven contributions without any human vetting will not be permitted...
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      Support For More Bluetooth Guitars & Other HID Changes Ahead Of Linux 6.20~7.0

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 20 January 2026

    A lot of HID subsystem updates have been queuing up ahead of the Linux 6.20~7.0 merge window in February. There is a lot of new hardware support on the way along with quirks for some existing hardware support ranging from laptop keyboard issues to enabling support for more PS4/PS5 guitars under Linux...
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      Patches Ready For Linux 7.0 To Enable Intel GPU Firmware Updates On Non-x86 Systems

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 20 January 2026

    Patches are now positioned to go into the upcoming Linux 6.20~7.0 kernel cycle for supporting Intel discrete GPU firmware updating on non-x86 systems...
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      Fedora 44 Feature Approved For Better Windows On ARM Laptop Experience

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 20 January 2026

    A change proposal has been cleared by the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee "FESCo" for providing a nice out-of-the-box experience for Windows on ARM laptops namely the recent Snapdragon X1 laptops and will also be important for the upcoming Snapdragon X2 laptops too...
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      Adreno Gen 8 Vulkan Graphics Merged For Mesa 26.0 To Support The Snapdragon X2

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 20 January 2026

    Merged in time for the upcoming Mesa 26.0 release is the merging of Vulkan driver support for the Qualcomm Adreno Gen 8 graphics support that is notably used by the new Snapdragon X2 laptop SoCs as well as the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5...