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      Open-Source Nouveau Performance With Linux 7.0 + NVK Mesa 26.1-dev vs. NVIDIA Linux Driver

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16:00

    As a few months have passed since our prior round of testing the fully open-source NVIDIA Linux driver stack with the Nouveau kernel driver and Mesa NVK Vulkan driver plus Zink, here is a fresh round of benchmarks using Linux 7.0 and Mesa 26.1-dev compared to the open-source stack shipped by Ubuntu 25.10 (Linux 6.17 + Mesa 25.2) for showing how far the open-source NVIDIA driver has progressed the past few months. Plus testing against the NVIDIA official Linux graphics driver for putting that Nouveau/NVK performance into perspective.
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      Ubuntu Will Switch To ntpd-rs As Its Next Rust System Component

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14:30

    Canonical engineers are planning a switch to ntpd-rs as the newest Rust-based system component for Ubuntu Linux for handling time synchronization...
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      AMD Announces The Ryzen 9 9950X3D2

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13:47

    AMD this morning finally announced the long-rumored Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 flagship processor with 3D V-Cache for both of the CCDs...
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      Intel Xe Driver In Linux 7.1 Enabling THP For Device Pages As A Big SVM Win

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11:05

    Sent out today was a new batch of "drm-xe-next" material of Intel Xe kernel graphics driver improvements ready for the upcoming Linux 7.1 kernel cycle. Standing out in this pull is enabling Transparent Hugepages (THP) support for drm_pagemap as a big win for those making use of Shared Virtual Memory (SVM) for GPU compute and the like...
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      Fedora 45 Aims For IPv6-Mostly Support Out-Of-The-Box

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:32

    One of the early features for Fedora 45 that was approved this week is enabling IPv6-mostly support within NetworkManager for a more modern out-of-the-box network experience...
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      NXP Neutron NPU Kernel Driver Blocked For Now By A Closed-Source User-Space Blob

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:19

    Last month NXP posted open-source Linux kernel driver patches for their Neutron NPU accelerator. The NXP Neutron NPU aims to help with edge AI applications and this neural processing unit is found in their different SoCs. Unfortunately, their GitHub repository for the user-space software ends up containing a binary-only blob that will end up delaying plans on getting this driver into the mainline Linux kernel...
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      An Enticing Optimization For Linux Memory Reclaim On Today's Multi-Core Platforms

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:10

    A new set of Linux kernel patches for batch TLB flushing for dirty folios within the kernel's vmscan path were recently floated on the Linux kernel mailing list. This batch TLB flushing optimization for dirty folios during memory reclaim can be a significant performance win with today's multi-core hardware...
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      ASUS Armoury & HP WMI Drivers Add More Laptops Ahead Of Linux 7.0-rc6

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 0:29

    Merged today was another round of platform-drivers-x86 changes for the ongoing Linux 7.0 cycle. There are bug fixes plus some new hardware support additions that make this merge notable. Due to the new hardware support amounting to just device IDs and not risking existing hardware support, it's fine for merging at this late stage of Linux 7.0 development...
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      Fedora 45 Plan Approved For Web Frontend To Linux's "Blue Screen of Death" DRM Panic

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 hours ago

    With just a few weeks to go until the official Fedora 44 release, there is already feature planning and activity beginning for Fedora 45 that will be released toward the end of 2026. Among the early feature approvals is a new web front-end feature to the DRM Panic "Blue/Black Screen of Death" functionality with a specialized QR code for kernel errors...