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      AMD Preps More AIE4 NPU Hardware Enablement For AMDXDNA Driver In Linux 7.2

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 May 2026

    Since March we have been seeing patches from AMD software engineers beginning to enable their next-generation "AIE4" NPU platform under Linux. We still don't know for sure when this AIE4 NPU will premiere for sure in new Ryzen AI products, but the Linux enablement continues coming along nicely for the AMDXDNA accelerator driver...
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      Intel's Cache Aware Scheduling Inches Closer To Being Merged For Linux

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 May 2026

    I have been writing about the Cache Aware Scheduling work led by Intel engineers on the Linux kernel for more than a year. I've also tested out Cache Aware Scheduling on both Intel and AMD CPUs with the patched Linux kernel to great success. And thus very happy to see the Cache Aware Scheduling patches inching closer to the mainline Linux kernel...
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      KDE Plasma 6.7 Beta Released With Plasma Big Screen, Union Modules

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 May 2026

    In working toward the stable Plasma 6.7 desktop release in mid-June, out today is the first beta of KDE Plasma 6.7...
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      New AMDGPU Driver Pull Request For Linux 7.2 Preps For HDML 2.1 FRL

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 May 2026

    Sent out on Wednesday was the latest AMDGPU/AMDKFD driver pull request of new feature code ready for DRM-Next as the staging area ahead of the upcoming Linux 7.2 kernel. This doesn't yet land the HDMI 2.1 enablement work that's finally been taking place but it is preparing for that with the FRL register headers now in place as part of this merge...
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      Linux's KVM With CET Virtualization Is Causing Some Hosts To Hang

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 May 2026

    Introduced to the Linux kernel last year was Control-flow Enforcement Technology "CET" virtualization for modern AMD and Intel CPUs. This complements CET that has existed in Linux for quite some time but it's new now to the KVM virtualization world, but some yet to be diagnosed problems are causing some hosts to hang when making use of this virtualization security feature...
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      Older AMD GPUs Score Another Open-Source Driver Win From Valve: DRM Format Modifiers

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 May 2026

    Timur Kristóf of Valve's Linux open-source graphics driver team isn't done driving new improvements to aging AMD GCN 1.0/1.1 era graphics cards on Linux. Beyond enhancing display support for older APUs, transitioning GCN 1.0/1 GPUs from the legacy Radeon driver to modern AMDGPU driver, and a host of other fixes and optimizations for these old GPUs going back to the Radeon HD 7000 series, he has another notable addition that was announced today. These original GCN graphics cards with pending patches to the AMDGPU kernel driver and Mesa user-space can now allow for DRM format modifiers...
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      Linux Driver Posted For Intel Silicon Security Engine Interface "ISSEI"

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13 May 2026

    Since Intel Meteor Lake has been the Intel Silicon Security Engine to serve as a silicon root-of-trust for secure firmware loading, boot measurements, and similar functionality. This Intel Silicon Security Engine has been built on with Lunar Lake and Panther Lake as well as set to take on more importance with future Intel hardware platforms. We are now seeing a Linux driver come for this silicon RoT with the Intel Silicon Security Engine Interface (ISSEI)...
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      Fragnesia Made Public As Latest Linux Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13 May 2026

    Following last week's disclosure of the Dirty Frag vulnerability for the Linux kernel, which only finished being patched up in mainline on Monday, Fragnesia is now public as a similar local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerability...
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      GCC 16 Produces Faster Binaries Than GCC 15, Competitive Race With LLVM Clang 22

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13 May 2026

    GCC 16.1 released at the end of April as the latest major, annual feature release to the GNU Compiler Collection. Early benchmarks showed some nice leads for GCC 16 over GCC 15. Continued testing of the new GCC 16 compiler has continued to show overall better performance of the resulting binaries than using GCC 15 on the same hardware and same compiler flags. That led many to wonder about the GCC 16 performance up against the latest LLVM/Clang open-source compiler, which is the focus of today's benchmarking showdown.