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      Etnaviv Driver Wires Up PPU Flop Reset Support Needed By Some Vivante Hardware

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 days ago - 11:14

    Sent out today was the latest batch of drm-misc-next changes to DRM-Next for staging ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.20~7.0 kernel cycle. The reverse-engineered Etnaviv DRM driver for Vivante graphics/NPU hardware has added a new "PPU flop reset" feature gleaned off studying the downstream vendor kernel driver...
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      Linux Kernel Considers Linking The Relocatable x86 Kernel As PIE In 2026

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 days ago - 10:53

    To allow for additional security hardening of the Linux kernel, a patch series has been updated more than one year later to link the relocatable x86_64 kernel as Position Independent Executable (PIE) code...
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      FEX 2601 Brings Various Fixes, Improvements For Wine & DXVK/VKD3D-Proton

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 days ago - 01:03

    FEX, the open-source emulator for running x86 and x86_64 binaries on AArch64 (ARM64) Linux and that is sponsored by Valve and to be used by the Steam Frame, is out with a new monthly feature release...
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      AMD Linux GPU Driver Improvement Coming For DP-HDMI Dongles

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 days ago - 20:24

    For those using a DisplayPort to HDMI dongle currently with the AMDGPU Linux kernel graphics driver may find some higher resolutions / modes unavailable. Fortunately, a fix is on the way for dealing with this situation due to an oversight in the kernel driver...
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      Intel FSP Improvements With Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake"

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 days ago - 18:24

    While for years open-source firmware enthusiasts have been after an open-source Firmware Support Package "FSP" for Intel CPUs and back during Raja Koduri's tenure at Intel it sounded like it might happen, it has yet to happen. But at least with the forthcoming Intel Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake" there are some FSP improvements...
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      Dell Pro Max GB10 vs. AMD Ryzen AI Max+ Framework Desktop For Llama.cpp, OpenCL & Vulkan Compute

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 days ago - 16:42

    Over the past number of weeks the Dell Pro Max with GB10 has been undergoing a lot of testing at Phoronix. This NVIDIA GB10 powered mini PC with its 20 Arm cores (10 x Cortex-X925, 10 x Cortex-A725) and Blackwell GPU offers a lot of combined compute potential for AI and other workloads. In this article is a look at how the Dell Pro Max with GB10 competes with AMD's Ryzen AI Max+ 395 "Strix Halo" within the Framework Desktop SFF PC.
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      Next-Gen AMD Server SoCs To Enjoy Firmware-Agnostic Platform Configuration Approach

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 days ago - 15:31

    Next-generation AMD server SoCs -- presumably the AMD EPYC "Venice" on Zen 6 -- is poised to introduce a firmware-agnostic platform configuration platform configuration change method/format. This is This aims to improve server platform interoperability and eliminate redundant configuration efforts for different firmware solutions...
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      Radeon RADV Vulkan Driver Is On The Verge Of Another Big Ray-Tracing Performance Gain

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 days ago - 11:18

    Natalie Vock as one of the open-source developers on Valve's Linux graphics team has been spearheading another big ray-tracing performance improvement for the AMD Radeon Vulkan driver. RADV ray-tracing performance improved a lot in 2025 but it's looking like 2026 could be even more exciting...
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      Compiler-Based Context & Locking Analysis On Deck For Linux 7.0 Paired With Clang 22+

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 days ago - 11:05

    A new feature in the queue for likely introduction with the next version of the Linux kernel (Linux 6.20~7.0) is compiler-based context and locking analysis. This kernel code depends on the yet-to-be-released LLVM Clang 22 compiler but can provide some powerful insights to kernel developers...