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      Linux 7.2-rc6 Working Around Several Buggy Western Digital SATA Drives

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:49

    Merged ahead of tomorrow's Linux 7.2-rc6 kernel test release are several ATA fixes that include a number of device-specific workarounds for some Western Digital SATA drives that have been failing to work on recent versions of the Linux kernel...
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      GNOME Working To Establish An RFC Process, Battling Sloppy AI-Generated Extensions

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:34

    GNOME developers were quite busy in closing out the month of July from continued work on establishing a formal Request For Comments (RFC) process for the project to battling the continued flood of AI-generated GNOME Shell extensions...
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      KDE Plasma 6.8 To Enjoy Huge Performance Gains For Multi-GPU/eGPU Performance

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:18

    It's been a very exciting week in the KDE Plasma 6.8 development space particularly thanks to performance work on bettering KWin's multi-GPU / external GPU handling...
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      Picolibc 1.8.12 Brings Latest Improvements To This Embedded-Focused C Library

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:00

    If the recent release of the GNU C Library glibc 2.44 is too big for your embedded use-cases, Keith Packard continues hacking on Picolibc as his embedded-focused C library. Released overnight was Picolibc 1.8.12 with a variety of improvements for this embedded libc...
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      AMD Begins Posting Display Core Next 6 "DCN6" Linux Patches For RDNA5 GPUs

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 0:29

    AMD closed out the month of July by posting some new AMDGPU Display Core "DC" patches. Most notable with this weekly patch ritual is several patches beginning to establish the foundation for Display Core Next 6 "DCN6" as their next-generation display IP. The patches tie DCN6 to the AMD GFX13 graphics engine, which is anticipated to be for the next-generation RDNA5 graphics processors...
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      AMD Publishes CDNA5 ISA Documentation For Instinct MI455X

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15 hours ago

    Following last week's launch of the AMD Instinct MI455X, AMD has now kept with tradition and provided ISA documentation concerning this latest CDNA5 architecture...
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      The First Open-Source Firmware Released For Modern AMD Ryzen AM5 Platform

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 hours ago

    Last month 3mdeb released their open-source firmware for a modern AMD EPYC motherboard from Gigabyte that was built off the new AMD openSIL project and Coreboot. Today 3mdeb has delivered the first open-source firmware release for a modern AMD Ryzen desktop motherboard with having independently brought their openSIL+Coreboot powered Dasharo stack to the readily available MSI PRO B850-P WIFI...
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      Shotcut 26.7 Video Editor Released With Stock Asset Library

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18 hours ago

    Shotcut 26.7 is out today as the newest feature release to this open-source, cross-platform video editing solution...
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      Nouveau Preparing To Finally Enable Atomic Mode-Setting By Default

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 20 hours ago

    In addition to the Nouveau kernel driver unblocking Vulkan Video H.264 support for the Mesa NVK driver, another feature change on the way is this open-source NVIDIA Linux driver finally preparing to enable atomic mode-setting by default...