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      Linux 7.2 To Support Realtek RTL8159 10GbE USB Ethernet

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16:03

    The Realtek RTL8159 has been appearing in some 10G-rated USB network adapters at online retailers, some for less than $100 USD. But currently the RTL8159 is only supported by Realtek's out-of-tree Linux kernel driver, but fortunately there will be mainline support coming with the Linux 7.2 kernel this summer...
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      AMD RadeonSI Code Reorganized To Support Multimedia-Only Driver Builds

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15:21

    Merged today to Mesa 26.2-devel was a reorganization of the AMD RadeonSI Gallium3D driver code to better separate the graphics and multimedia acceleration code from the rest of the driver...
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      Flattened Image Tree 1.0 Specification For Embedded Linux Systems

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14:26

    The Flattened Image Tree "FIT" 1.0 specification was recently finalized for this container format used by U-Boot on embedded systems for providing various boot components like DTBs, the Linux kernel image, and more into a single file...
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      AMD Instinct MI350P: PCIe Add-In Card For High Performance Open-Source AI/Compute

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13:00

    While there is the AMD Instinct MI400 series coming this year, today AMD announced an interesting and arguably overdue offering for the Instinct MI350 series: the MI350P. The AMD Instinct MI350P is a PCIe add-in-card to add Instinct MI350 compute capabilities to existing PCIe 5.0 air-cooled servers as an alternative to the Open Accelerator Module (OAM) currently used by the Instinct MI350 series.
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      Linux Drivers For The AMD Elan SoCs From The 1990s On Track For Retirement

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12:20

    Merged for the current Linux 7.1 cycle was beginning to phase out the Intel 486 processor support from the mainline kernel moving forward. That initial step with Linux 7.1 was dropping the various Kconfig options to allow compiling Linux kernel builds for targeting various i486 platforms. As part of that, the AMD Elan SoC configuration patches were dropped. The next step is proceeding on the AMD Elan side with beginning to remove the actual driver code...
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      KDE Plasma 6.7 To Provide A Much Better Experience For CPU-Based Rendering

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:29

    KDE developer Xaver Hugl has whipped up another nice improvement for the upcoming Plasma 6.7 desktop release. Due to QtWidgets still relying on CPU-based rendering and finding the performance subpar with Wayland shared memory "wl_shm" usage, Xaver has leveraged UDMABUF for avoiding excess buffer copies to provide a much more fluid experience when dealing with CPU-based rendering / shared memory usage on KDE under Wayland...
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      New GCC Back-End Proposed For WebAssembly

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:17

    When it comes to compiling C/C++ code to WebAssembly (WASM), LLVM/Clang and other LLVM-based tooling has dominated the space. Nearly a decade ago was a proposal for a GCC WebAssembly back-end that ultimately never ended up being merged while now there is a new proposal for a WebAssembly back-end for the GNU toolchain...
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      SR-IOV Support Appears To Be Coming For Next-Gen Ryzen AI NPUs

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:06

    AMD recently upstreamed Linux support for their next-gen AIE4 NPU. That next-gen AMD NPU support is expected to premiere in Linux 7.2 while this week an interesting new patch series has surfaced for SR-IOV support with those upcoming neural processing units...
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      Rust-Written Redox OS Sees Improvements For Running On Real Hardware

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 0:22

    Redox OS is out with its status report for April 2026. During the past month this open-source, Rust-based operating system written from scratch has seen improvements for running on real hardware as well as a wide variety of other improvements for bettering this original OS project...