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      AMDGPU HDMI 2.1 FRL To Be Initially Disabled-By-Default

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21:34

    One of the most exciting developments in recent times for the open-source AMDGPU kernel graphics driver is HDMI 2.1 FRL support for the AMDGPU driver along with Display Stream Compression support as they work toward providing full HDMI 2.1 support for this open-source AMD Radeon driver. The details how AMD managed to pull this feat off given prior resistance from the HDMI Forum remains to be confirmed, but it's moving ahead and out today is the latest iteration of the HDMI 2.1 FRL+DSC patches...
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      The Very Exciting Cache Aware Scheduling Looks Like It Will Land For Linux 7.2

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19:44

    As a very exciting development ahead of the Linux 7.2 kernel merge window opening in about one month's time, it looks like the long-awaited Cache Aware Scheduling support will finally be merged! CONFIG_SCHED_CACHE has made it into a TIP branch with all the Cache Aware Scheduling code for helping with Linux performance on modern CPUs sporting multiple last level caches...
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      Firefox 153 Nightly Rolls Out New Settings UI

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16:50

    The latest nightly builds of Firefox 153 have rolled out a new appearance for the browser's settings area...
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      Initial Benchmarks Of The SpacemiT K3 RVA23 RISC-V CPU With The K3 Pico-ITX

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15:43

    One of the RISC-V SoCs we have been most looking forward to this year is the SpacemiT K3 that features the X100 RISC-V cores that are RVA23 compliant and among the first readily available RVA23 RISC-V platform for running on the likes of Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. In this article is a preview of some very early benchmarks of the SpacemiT K3 with the new Pico-ITX single board computer offering.
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      Patches Trying To Bring Mainline Linux Support For The Infineon/Intel XMM6260 Modem

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14:25

    While it has been nearly seven years since Apple acquired the Intel Mobile Communications' smartphone modem business and fifteen years since Intel acquired the wireless solutions division of Infineon, in 2026 we might see mainline Linux kernel support for the out-of-date XMM6260 modem...
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      RHEL 10.2 Released With New AI Command Line Assistance

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13:51

    Red Hat today announced the releases of both Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.2 as well as RHEL 9.8...
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      Greg KH Calls For More Rust Linux Developers

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12:29

    Greg Kroah-Hartman took time away from his duties as Linux's second-in-command as stable maintainer, various subsystem maintainer, and recent hobby of using AI/LLMs for uncovering Linux kernel bugs to present at the Rust Week conference...
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      HP Now Sponsoring The Linux Vendor Firmware Service / Fwupd

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:32

    That didn't take long. Mere days after Dell and Lenovo began sponsoring the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) as premiere sponsors in contributing $100k+ annually to this open-source firmware updating initiative, HP is also now a premiere sponsor...
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      FFmpeg Introduces Vulkan Accelerated Decoding For APV Video

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:25

    FFmpeg already supports CPU-based decoding for Samsung's APV as the Advanced Professional Video Codec. FFmpeg also has APV encode support too while now an interesting addition was merged this week: Vulkan-based acceleration for APV...