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      DragonFlyBSD Now Allows Optional AMD GCN 1.1 Support In AMDGPU Driver

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 20 January 2026

    DragonFlyBSD's AMDGPU kernel graphics driver continues to be a port of the AMDGPU Linux kernel driver. Their latest porting effort for AMD graphics on DragonFlyBSD is now enabling optional support for the GCN 1.1 "Sea Islands (CIK) graphics processors on this modern alternative to the prior Radeon kernel driver...
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      X.Org Server May Create A New Selective Git Branch With Hopes Of A New Release This Year

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 20 January 2026

    A proposal has been laid out for a new X.Org Server "main" Git branch to house their development going forward and cleaning up the development lapses over the past few years. Ultimately the hope is for having a new cleaned-up X.Org Server and XWayland Git branch for shipping new releases in 2026...
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      New Patches From Valve Bring AMDGPU Power Management Improvements For Old GCN 1.0 GPUs

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 January 2026

    Last year Valve contractor Timur Kristóf managed to improve the AMDGPU driver enough for old GCN 1.0 Southern Islands and GCN 1.1 Sea Islands GPUs that with Linux 6.19 AMDGPU is now the default for those GPUs with better performance, RADV Vulkan out-of-the-box, and other benefits. He isn't done though improving the old GCN 1.0/1.1 era GPU support on this modern AMDGPU kernel driver - a new patch series posted today brings some power management fixes...
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      OPEN_TREE_NAMESPACE To Provide A Security & Performance Win For Dealing With Containers

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 January 2026

    A new feature expected to be merged for the upcoming Linux 7.0 kernel cycle is adding an OPEN_TREE_NAMESPACE flag for the open_tree() system call. This OPEN_TREE_NAMESPACE option can provide a nice performance win with added security benefits if you are dealing a lot with containerized workloads on Linux...
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      Mozilla Now Providing RPM Packages For Firefox Nightly Builds

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 January 2026

    In late 2023 Mozilla began providing Debian packages of Firefox Nightly builds complete with an APT repository. Those on Debian/Ubuntu distributions have a much easier path for enjoying Firefox Nightly since then and now Mozilla engineers are providing similar RPM builds of Firefox nightly too...
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      CAKE_MQ Slated For Linux 7.0 To Adapt SCH_CAKE For Today's Multi-Core World

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 January 2026

    Queued into the Linux networking subsystem's "net-next" branch ahead of the Linux 6.20~7.0 merge window next month is cake_mq as a multi-queue aware variant of the sch_cake network scheduler. The intent with cake_mq is to better scale the network traffic rate shaper across multiple CPU cores...
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      How NVIDIA GB10 Performance With the Dell Pro Max GB10 Compares To The GH200

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 January 2026

    Earlier this month we looked at the Dell Pro Max GB10 performance up against AMD's Ryzen AI Max+ "Strix Halo" with the superior performance for the green team for performance and power efficiency. For those wondering how the Dell Pro Max GB10 performance comes up for the much talked about NVIDIA GH200, here are some comparison benchmarks.
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      Revocable Resource Management Appears On Track For Linux 7.0

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 January 2026

    A new feature that appears ready for introduction in the upcoming Linux 6.20~7.0 kernel cycle is revocable resource management...
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      New Patches Provide HDMI VRR & Auto Low Latency Mode Gaming Features For AMD Linux GPU Driver

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 January 2026

    Support for newer HDMI features in the open-source AMD Linux graphics driver have been limited due to being blocked by the HDMI Forum. There are though some new HDMI gaming features being enabled via new AMDGPU kernel driver patches that are coming outside of AMD and based on public knowledge and/or "trying things out until they work/break" for functionality like HDMI Variable Refresh Rate (VRR) and Auto Low Latency Mode...