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      Imagination Driver To Support The TI AM62P SoC In Linux 6.20~7.0

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15 January 2026

    Sent out today was the latest DRM-Misc-Next pull request of new material ahead of the next kernel cycle either Linux 6.20 or 7.0 depending upon what Linus Torvalds decides to call it...
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      Whisper.cpp 1.8.3 Delivers A "12x Performance Boost" With Integrated Graphics

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15 January 2026

    Whisper.cpp as the open-source high performance inference project built around OpenAI's Whisper and from the same developers as Llama.cpp / GGML is out with a big new release. Whisper.cpp 1.8.3 is capable of delivering a 12x performance boost for systems with integrated AMD and Intel graphics...
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      D7VK 1.2 Released For Improving Direct3D 6 Front-End

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15 January 2026

    Started last year was D7VK as a project bringing Direct3D 7 implemented over the Vulkan API for enjoying better performance and support for legacy Windows games on Linux, akin to DXVK and VKD3D-Proton for newer versions of Direct3D over Vulkan that is used by Valve's Steam Play (Proton). Back in December D7VK added a Direct3D 6 front-end for allowing even older game titles to be accelerated using the modern Vulkan API. Today D7VK 1.2 is out for furthering the D3D6 support...
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      libvirt 12.0 Released - Bhyve ARM64 Support & Other Improvements For The BSD Hypervisor

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15 January 2026

    Libvirt 12.0 released today as this open-source virtualization API for management across different virtualization technologies/hypervisors. With libvirt 12.0, improving Bhyve as the FreeBSD hypervisor was a big focus...
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      Linux Patches Bring Mainline Kernel Support For The ASUS IPMI Expansion Card

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15 January 2026

    DeviceTree patches worked on recently allow for the mainline Linux kernel to run on the ASUS "Kommando" IPMI Expansion Card. This is interesting for opening up new possibilities for this external IPMI/BMC expansion card but too bad that less than three years after launching it's difficult to find...
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      oVirt 4.5.7 Released After Two Years With New OS & CPU Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15 January 2026

    The oVirt 4.5.7 open-source virtualization management platform released this week after not seeing any new releases in two years. While Red Hat had started the oVirt open-source project for which their Red Hat Virtualization platform is based, since they shifted that to maintenance mode to focus on the Red Hat OpenShift platform and stopped contributing to oVirt, it's been up to the open-source community to keep it going...
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      Raspberry Pi AI HAT+ 2 Released & Designed For Running GenAI Models

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15 January 2026

    In late 2024 the folks at Raspberry Pi announced the Raspberry Pi AI HAT+ as an AI accelerator capable of 26 TOPS and costing $110 for pairing with Raspberry Pi single board computers. Today they announced the much more capable Raspberry Pi AI HAT+ 2 that can begin to take on some generative AI "GenAI" models...
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      Another RADV Ray-Tracing Merge Lands Some Additional Gains For Mesa 26.0

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15 January 2026

    Separate from the Mesa merge request talked about earlier today for new RADV code that can deliver 10x faster ray-tracing pipeline compilation for this open-source Radeon Vulkan driver, another merge request landed today in Mesa 26.0 that was also carried out by Valve contractor Natalie Vock. That second merge request now in Mesa 26.0 delivers some additional gains for at least some ray-tracing games on RDNA3 and RDNA4 GPUs...
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      GRUB 2.14 Bootloader Released With EROFS Support, Shim Loader Protocol

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 January 2026

    More than two years after the release of GRUB 2.12, GRUB 2.14 shipped today as the newest feature release of this widely-used bootloader on Linux systems and elsewhere...