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      Valve & AMD Developers Delivered The Most Code Contributions To Mesa In 2025

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 January 2026

    A developer from Valve working on the RADV Vulkan driver was once again the most prolific contributor to Mesa in 2025 followed by AMD's Marek Olšák with continued improvements around RadeonSI and Gallium3D...
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      Radeon RADV Driver Lands Another Ray-Tracing Improvement: 30% Faster On RDNA2

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 January 2026

    Konstantin Seurer as one of the open-source developers working on the RADV driver for Valve has landed another ray-tracing performance optimization for the upcoming Mesa 26.0 release...
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      Apple SMC Power Driver Posted For Linux Kernel To Finally Expose Battery Stats

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 January 2026

    The newest open-source Apple Silicon driver being submitted for review in working toward its inclusion in the mainline Linux kernel is the Apple Silicon SMC power driver for being able to expose MacBook battery power metrics as well as AC power adapter status reporting under Linux...
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      Patches Posted Seeking To Mainline Support For The Acer Swift SFA14-11 Snapdragon Laptop

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 January 2026

    Patches posted to the Linux kernel mailing list are hoping to provide mainline support for the Acer Swift SFA14-11 laptop powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon X1 Elite X1E78100 SoC...
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      Intel Xe Driver Preps THP Support For "Significant" SVM Performance Gains

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 January 2026

    Intel engineer Francois Dugast today sent out the new patch series for enabling Transparent Hugepages (THP) support within the drm_pagemap code with a focus on the Intel Xe kernel driver usage. This enabling of THP support and in turn 2MB pages by the Xe driver is yielding "significant" performance improvements when using Shared Virtual Memory (SVM) such as for GPU compute workloads...
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      Linux Kernel AES Library Seeing Improvements For Better Performance & More

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 January 2026

    A set of 36 patches sent out overnight is making big improvements to the Linux kernel's AES library. The patches allow for making use of the kernel's existing architecture-optimized AES code for better performance, that code is also constant-time, lower memory use, and all-around a nice improvement over the status quo...
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      There Is No One Left On Debian's Data Protection Team

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 January 2026

    Besides Debian's aging bug tracker interface, another challenge as the Debian Linux distribution project begins 2026 is that all volunteers have left their Data Protection Team. The Debian Data Protection Team deals with General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) issues and related data protection/privacy related matters...
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      AMD RDNA4 With RADV Now Support New Performance Counters For Better Profiling

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 January 2026

    Merged back in December for Mesa 26.0 was RADV now supporting some new performance counters to help game developers and open-source driver developers. That new performance counter support aligned with the AMD GPUOpen Radeon GPU Profiler 2.6 release. At first those new performance counters were wired up for RDNA1 through RDNA3.5 GPUs while now the support has arrived for the latest RDNA4 GPUs...
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      GCC 16 Lands Support For Using Picolibc

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 January 2026

    While veteran open-source developer Keith Packard is known for his X.Org Server contributions over many years, another more recent open-source creation of his is Picolibc as a C library for embedded systems. As the latest achievement on that front, merged this weekend to the GCC 16 compiler codebase is support for using Picolibc...