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      Linux 7.0 Networking: Prepping For WiFi 8 UHR While Dropping Last Parallel Port Ethernet Driver

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 February 2026

    The Linux 7.0 networking pull request showcases two extremes and the diversity and robustness of the open-source kernel ecosystem. Linux 7.0 is laying the groundwork for WiFi 8 Ultra-High Reliability (UHR) support while this kernel version is also bidding farewell to the last Ethernet driver for use over parallel printer ports...
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      Linux 7.0 Brings A Significant Improvement For Workqueue Rescuer

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 February 2026

    The Linux kernel's workqueue for async task handling within a dedicated kernel thread is seeing some useful improvements with Linux 7.0...
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      Linux 7.0 Performance Events Prep For Intel Xeon Diamond Rapids

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 February 2026

    The performance "perf" events changes for the Linux 7.0 kernel are continuing to prepare for next-generation Xeon Diamond Rapids processors as the successor to current Xeon 6 Granite Rapids...
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      Intel Is Making It Easier In Linux 7.0 To Monitor Energy Use For A Group Of Tasks

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 February 2026

    Intel has upstreamed some Resource Control "resctrl" improvements to Linux 7.0 for enhanced telemetry monitoring. This is the good kind of telemetry with this new code being useful for being able to monitor how much energy or work is attributed to a group of tasks / process IDs on the system...
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      Linux 7.0 Removes Support For Signing Modules With Insecure SHA-1

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 February 2026

    The Linux 7.0 kernel has removed support for signing kernel modules using SHA-1 as it's no longer considered secure but existing SHA-1 signed modules can still be loaded...
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      Media Driver Updates Merged For Linux 7.0 - Still Without The AMD ISP4 Driver

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 February 2026

    All of the media subsystem driver updates have been merged for the in-development Linux 7.0 kernel and brings some new work around AV1 acceleration as well as other driver updates...
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      Linux 7.0 Graphics Drivers See New AMD Hardware, Intel Xe SR-IOV + Multi-Device SVM

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 February 2026

    The massive set of Linux kernel graphics/display driver Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) updates were sent out and merged today for the Linux 7.0 kernel. This also includes the growing work around accelerator "accel" drivers for AI NPUs and the like...
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      Linus Torvalds Rejects MMC Changes For Linux 7.0 Cycle: "Complete Garbage"

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11 February 2026

    The Linux MultiMediaCard "MMC" subsystem was set to see some new hardware support, optimized support for secure erase/trim on some eMMCs, and a variety of other improvements. But all of the MMC changes are rejected and will be for the duration of the Linux 7.0 cycle due to an apparent lack of testing and vetting via linux-next that led Linus Torvalds to calling it "complete garbage" and "untested crap"...
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      Linux Kernel Graphics Driver Development Now Experimenting With AI Code Review

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11 February 2026

    Well known open-source Linux graphics driver developer David Airlie of Red Hat, who is the co-maintainer of the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) kernel graphics/display drivers and accelerator "accel" drivers, announced experimental work on AI-drive code/patch review for these open-source kernel drivers...