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      Linux Begins Seeing Early Preparations For PCIe 7.0

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13:56

    While we are on the horizon of seeing PCI Express 6.0 devices, there are already early Linux kernel patches beginning to surface for PCI Express 7.0...
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      Linux 7.0 Brings Apple Type-C PHY, Snapdragon X2 & Rockchip HDMI 2.1 FRL Additions

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13:14

    Ahead of the Linux 7.0 merge window ending this weekend, the PHY updates were merged this week for this next major kernel release. There are some notable PHY additions particularly for Apple Silicon USB Type-C support as well as additions for Qualcomm's new Snapdragon X2 laptop SoCs...
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      Ubuntu 26.04 Begins Its Feature Freeze

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11:20

    Canonical engineer Utkarsh Gupta announced today on the behalf of the Ubuntu Release Team that the Ubuntu 26.04 "Resolute Raccoon" has entered its feature freeze...
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      Cloud Hypervisor 51 Brings Performance Improvements, Better QCOW2 v3 Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11:06

    Cloud Hypervisor 51 is now available for this Rust-based VMM focused on secure cloud computing. For what began as an Intel open-source project years ago is continuing to be largely led by Microsoft, Cyberus Tech, Tencent, Ant Group, and others...
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      Mesa KosmicKrisp Driver Is Coming To iOS, More Performance & Vulkan 1.4 Expected

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:57

    Last year LunarG announced KosmicKrisp as a new Vulkan implementation atop Apple's Metal API. Initially targeting macOS, KosmicKrisp since was merged to Mesa and has evolved quite nicely as a modern implementation of Vulkan-on-Metal for Apple Silicon. It continues moving ahead with an eye for iOS, more performance optimizations, and completing Vulkan 1.4 support...
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      USB Driver For Google Tensor SoCs, UCSI Thunderbolt Alt Mode In Linux 7.0

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:45

    All of the Thunderbolt/USB driver changes were merged this week for the nearly-over Linux 7.0 merge window...
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      Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Moving To OpenJDK 25 By Default

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16 hours ago

    It's not too surprising but the upcoming Ubuntu 26.04 Long Term Support release will be transitioning to OpenJDK 25 as its default Java version...
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      Intel Vulkan Driver Lands One-Line Change That Can Bring Minor Performance Benefits

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 hours ago

    Merged today to Mesa 26.1 Git is a one-line change to the Intel "ANV" Vulkan driver that is showing to deliver some slight performance benefits or up to 3% noted in some select games...
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      Turbostat With Linux 7.0 Can Report New L2 Cache Statistics

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 hours ago

    The Turbostat command-line utility for reporting processor frequency and idle statistics along with other useful information for AMD and Intel CPUs can now report some L2 cache stats for recent Intel CPUs beginning with Linux 7.0...