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      HDMI 2.1 Display Stream Compression "DSC" Also Ready For AMDGPU Linux Driver

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17:30

    At the beginning of the month was the surprise milestone of AMD posting AMDGPU kernel driver patches for HDMI 2.1 Fixed Rate Link (FRL) support. The HDMI FRL patches have since been updated to also enable HDMI 2.1's Display Stream Compression (DSC) functionality for higher resolutions and higher refresh rates with the open-source AMDGPU driver...
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      Redesigned Thelio Major Elevates System76's All-AMD, Open-Source Linux Workstation

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16:40

    A few weeks back we reviewed the redesigned System76 Thelio Mira with a brand new chassis design and powered by the AMD Ryzen 9000 series. This was an interesting Linux-powered desktop manufactured in Colorado while for those needing a bit more performance, since then the redesigned Thelio Major launched. The new System76 Thelio Major provides an updated Thelio case design like Mira while comes packed with the AMD Ryzen Threadripper 9000 series and AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 graphics for delivering a very powerful, all-AMD and open-source high-end Linux workstation.
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      GNOME's Help Viewer Updated Due To Flatpak Sandbox Escape Vulnerability

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14:36

    GNOME's help viewer, Yelp, last year was impacted by a serious security issue for arbitrary file reads. There's a new vulnerability affecting the GNOME help viewer that led to the Yelp 49.1 release to address a possible Flatpak sandbox escape vector...
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      Intel IGC 2.34.4 Compiler Brings Many Improvements

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13:20

    The Intel Graphics Compiler "IGC" 2.34.4 release is out today as this compiler used by the Intel Compute Runtime for Level Zero and OpenCL compute on Intel graphics hardware plus is also used as the graphics shader compiler under Windows...
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      F2FS Preparing FSERROR Reporting Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12:26

    Introduced in Linux 7.0 was FSERROR as generic I/O error reporting infrastructure. Linux to that point had no standardized mechanism for reporting metadata corruption or file I/O errors to user-space with each file-system doing its own thing. The Flash-Friendly File-System (F2FS) is now the latest Linux file-system preparing for FSERROR usage...
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      Linux 7.2 To Add Support For Switchtec PCIe Gen6 Switches

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11:14

    The upcoming Linux 7.2 kernel will be adding support for Microchip's Switchtec PCIe Gen6 switches...
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      AMD Ryzen AI & Intel NPU Drivers Adding New Power Features With Linux 7.2

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:19

    Last week's drm-misc-next pull request of new Direct Rendering Manager and accelerator driver feature material destined for Linux 7.2 include some new power management control features both for the AMD Ryzen AI and Intel NPU drivers...
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      Sculpt OS 26.04 Can Finally Be Used To Self-Host For Developing/Building Genode

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:01

    Sculpt OS as the general purpose operating system built off the Genode OS Framework is out with a new feature release...
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      Linux 7.0.6 Released To Finish Mitigating the Dirty Frag Vulnerability

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9:51

    Linux 7.0.6 is out as stable this morning to finish mitigating the Dirty Frag vulnerability that was made public last week...