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      AMD Zen 6 Client HSMP Patches Points To "Ryzen Master" Functionality On Linux

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14:03

    In an interesting twist, patches this week posted to the Linux kernel mailing list are enabling AMD Zen 6 client desktop and laptop SoCs for the HSMP driver. Up to now the AMD HSMP Linux driver was just used for modern EPYC server processors while now we are seeing this HSMP driver supporting the upcoming Medusa and Olympic Ridge client platforms... Including mentions of overclocking and even noting "Ryzen Master" as the Windows-only software for overclocking and system management...
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      Xen 4.22 Released With AMD Zen 5 BLT Support, Improved RISC-V Virtualization

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13:45

    The Xen Project today released Xen 4.22 as the newest feature release of this open-source hypervisor popular for open-source virtualization in automotive systems and other embedded use-cases as well as the cloud...
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      Huawei Considers Open-Sourcing A Half-Hearted Mesa Vulkan Driver

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:18

    A Huawei engineer posted to the Mesa mailing list today over potentially upstreaming a Vulkan driver they have developed for an in-house GPU. However, at least in current form, this new in-house GPU Vulkan driver is likely dead in the water from being upstreamed into Mesa...
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      Patches Posted To Improve Linux Media Acceleration On Intel Alchemist GPUs

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:05

    The Intel Arc A-Series graphics (DG2) remains in a bit of an awkward state on Linux due to the transition period moving from the i915 kernel driver to more modern and feature capable Xe kernel driver. It's only post-Alchemist where the Intel Xe driver is officially supported and used by default while those opting for the Xe driver with the A-Series can often enjoy better performance and functionality. Except one of the caveats in using the Xe driver on Alchemist GPUs has been the lack of proper media acceleration support...
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      Five Proposals Now Being Weighed For Debian AI/LLM Usage

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9:47

    Last week Debian developers began considering a general resolution over AI large language model (LLM) usage within the Debian project. They are now up to weighing five different proposals for how to permit or block AI/LLM usage in the Debian space...
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      Intel Media Driver & VPL GPU Runtime 2026Q2 Updates Continue Prepping For Nova Lake

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9:38

    Over the past few Intel VA-API Media Driver releases we have seen preparations made for Nova Lake video acceleration. That has continued today with the Intel Media Driver and Intel oneVPL GPU Runtime releases today with their new quarterly feature releases...
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      COSMIC Epoch 1.5 Brings More Fixes & Improvements To System76's Desktop

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 0:21

    The System76 and Pop!_OS developers continue quickly iterating on their Rust-based COSMIC desktop environment...
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      DRM Format Modifiers For Old AMD GPUs Coming With Linux 7.3: Thanks Valve

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18 hours ago

    Sent out today was another week's worth of features and other code changes to the AMDGPU kernel graphics driver and AMDKFD kernel compute driver. We are nearing the cut-off of new feature material for next month's Linux 7.3 kernel but there is some nice feature work in store for this week...
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      Steam Client Adds HDR Streaming On Steam Deck OLED, AV1 Video Streaming

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 hours ago

    Today's Steam client beta update brings some new game streaming enhancements for Linux gamers...