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      EFS File-System Slated For Removal With Linux 7.3 After 20+ Years Unmaintained

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 2 July 2026

    The EFS file-system was used for non-ISO9660 CD-ROMs and disk partitions on SGI IRIX before IRIX 6.0 switched over to XFS. Inside the Linux kernel has been a read-only EFS file-system driver without a maintainer for 20+ years while for Linux 7.3 it's expected to be removed...
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      Linux Kernel Developers Again Discussing AI Agent Attribution - Potentially Dropping It

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 2 July 2026

    When AI/LLM agents are used in the creation of Linux kernel patches, the policy for a while now has been that it should be specified using an "Assisted-by" tag as part of the patches/commits. But Linux kernel developers this week have been discussing whether to revise that policy or to potentially eliminate it...
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      RISC-V RVV Vector Performance Benchmarks With The SpacemiT K3 SoC

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 2 July 2026

    Since May we have been benchmarking the SpacemiT K3 RISC-V SoC as one of the first to market RISC-V chips supporting the RVA23 profile. The SpacemiT K3 has shown how far RISC-V performance has come in the past half decade and one of the promising elements of this modern RISC-V SoC with its X100/A100 cores is supporting the RISC-V Vector Extension "RVV" 1.0. In this article are some initial benchmarks looking specifically at the RISC-V RVV 1.0 performance impact in different supported software.
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      Intel Posts Initial GCC Compiler Patches For AI Compute Extensions "ACE"

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 2 July 2026

    The x86 Ecosystem Advisory Group led by Intel and AMD recently firmed up the AI Compute Extensions (ACE) specification for optimizing x86 for AI computation tasks around matrix multiplication and the like for machine learning workloads. The cross-vendor ACE extension is ultimately a successor to Intel's Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX). Posted to the GCC mailing list today by Intel engineers are the initial patches in preparing the compiler support for ACE...
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      Vibe Coded X11 Server Written In Rust Adds Xinerama, FreeBSD Support & Other Features

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 2 July 2026

    One month ago we reported on YSERVER as a modern X11 server written in Rust with the help of Claude Code. Since then YSERVER has continued to advance in supporting more X11 functionality thanks to the help of Claude Code (AI) and out today is version 1.3 o this display server...
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      KDE Plasma Affected By Arbitrary Code Execution To Break Sandboxes With "Open New Window"

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 2 July 2026

    A security disclosure has been made public today for a yet-to-be-patched arbitrary code execution vulnerability with the KDE Plasma desktop...
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      Linux Looking To Retire A Number Of Old ARM Platforms In Early 2027

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 2 July 2026

    It's not only old x86 i486 CPU support being removed from the Linux kernel but a number of older ARM platforms and features are on the chopping block too. A proposal has been laid out for deprecating and then removing a number of outdated ARM platforms and features from the Linux kernel in early 2027...
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      FFmpeg Introduces Vulkan APV Encoder

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 2 July 2026

    Back in May the FFmpeg project introduced Vulkan-accelerated decoding for the APV video format. The Advanced Professional Video (APV) codec was being handled using Vulkan shaders in a similar way to how FFmpeg implemented Vulkan acceleration for Apple ProRes. Now there is Vulkan-accelerated APV encoding too...
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      Rusticl OpenCL Driver Improving Hardware Utilization In Mesa 26.2

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 2 July 2026

    Red Hat engineer Karol Herbst has landed his latest optimization work to Rusticl in Mesa 26.2. The latest effort for this Rust-based OpenCL driver that works across Gallium3D drivers is around better hardware utilization...