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Linux's Sole Wireless/WiFi Driver Maintainer Is Stepping Down

30. Leden 2025 - 16:16
Days after a DRM driver developer orphaned his drivers due to health reasons in stepping down, the sole maintainer at large of the Linux wireless (WiFi) drivers is stepping down and without any immediate replacement...

NVIDIA 570.86.16 Beta Linux Driver Published With GeForce RTX 5080 / RTX 5090 Support

30. Leden 2025 - 14:58
The NVIDIA 570.86.16 beta Linux driver was just published in time for the GeForce RTX 5080 and RTX 5090 graphics cards hitting store shelves this morning...

AMD AE4DMA Driver Merged For Linux 6.14

30. Leden 2025 - 13:00
In addition to the AMDXDNA driver being merged for Linux 6.14 for enabling the Ryzen AI NPUs, this next kernel version is introducing another new AMD kernel driver that hasn't been previously covered on Phoronix: AMD AE4DMA...

Intel Linux Graphics Driver Merges "Major Improvement" For Xe3 With VRT Support

30. Leden 2025 - 12:38
The open-source Intel Linux Mesa graphics driver code has merged support for a "major improvement" found with next-gen Xe3 graphics... Variable Register Thread (VRT) as one of the nifty features that will help with Intel integrated and discrete graphics performance...

SoundWire Multi-Lane Support Submitted For Linux 6.14

30. Leden 2025 - 12:20
All of the MIPI SoundWire related updates have been submitted for the in-development Linux 6.14 kernel. SoundWire as a reminder is the standard interface for modern, small audio peripherals...

Linux 6.14 CXL Updates Make Preparations Around Type 2 Support & CXL 3.1

30. Leden 2025 - 10:00
The Compute Express Link (CXL) updates have been sent out and merged for the in-development Linux 6.14 kernel...

Wine Merge Request Opened For NTSYNC In-Process Synchronization With Linux 6.14+

30. Leden 2025 - 2:32
Now that the full-functioning NTSYNC driver is ready for Linux 6.14 for better emulating the Windows NT synchronization primitives on Linux, the merge request has been opened for upstream Wine to land the NTSYNC integration on its side for in-process synchronization...

AMD GPU Operator Announced For Automated Driver Installation & Kubernetes Support

30. Leden 2025 - 2:21
AMD today announced two new software projects to better enhance their software support for Instinct accelerators / graphics deployments within the data center: AMD GPU Operator and AMD Metrics Exporter...

Open-Source RADV Radeon Driver Support For RDNA4: "Should Be Good Enough"

29. Leden 2025 - 21:29
Lead RADV developer Samuel Pitoiset of Valve's Linux graphics driver team has provided some insight into the support expectations for this open-source Radeon Vulkan driver with the upcoming Radeon RX 9070 "RDNA4" graphics cards...

X.Org / FreeDesktop.org Encounters New Cloud Crisis: Needs New Infrastructure Very Soon

29. Leden 2025 - 19:07
About five years ago X.Org / FreeDesktop.org was experiencing a cloud hosting crisis with their cloud costs running out of control after losing free credits for Google Cloud and the continuous integration (CI) testing driving up expenses. They ended up switching public cloud providers over to Equinix. Equinix ended up sponsoring the X.Org Foundation / FreeDesktop.org with their cloud/hosting needs but now on short notice that is coming to an end...

PyTorch 2.6 Delivers FP16 Support For x86 CPUs, Better Intel GPU Experience

29. Leden 2025 - 18:49
PyTorch 2.6 is out today as the newest feature release to this widely-used machine learning library...

Ubuntu Developers Moving From IRC To Matrix For Real-Time Communication

29. Leden 2025 - 16:34
Following a discussion on the Ubuntu development mailing list, Ubuntu developers have decided to adopt Matrix for their official real-time communication channels while deprecating IRC chat...

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Linux GPU Compute Performance

29. Leden 2025 - 15:00
Last week was the review embargo lift on the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 graphics card while today the review embargo lifts on the GeForce RTX 5080, both of which graphics cards are officially available in the retail channel tomorrow (30 January). Due to waiting on the official NVIDIA R570 Linux driver release that is recommended for the RTX 50 series Linux gaming, today's tests at Phoronix are looking at the GeForce RTX 5080 GPU compute performance.

GNU C Library 2.41 Released With New C23 Features, Intel / AMD / Arm CPU Optimizations

29. Leden 2025 - 14:43
As expected, GNU C Library "glibc" 2.41 is now available as the newest half-year feature release to this important C library for Linux systems and other environments...

Bytedance Praises eBPF - Notes 10% Improvement In Network Throughput

29. Leden 2025 - 14:30
Bytedance is praising eBPF as the in-kernel virtual machine for dynamic programs to help speed-up network packet processing, greater tracing and profiling abilities, and a wide-range of other purposes for these dynamic in-kernel programs. By tapping eBPF, Bytedance is reporting a 10% improvement to their networking throughput...

Mesa 25.0 Sees New Driver Code To Further Enhance RadeonSI + ACO

29. Leden 2025 - 12:54
AMD Mesa driver guru Marek Olšák has landed a new set of 48 patches into Mesa 25.0-devel Git for refactoring various AMD-related driver code to work on improving the ACO compiler support within the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver...

Ubuntu's Snapdragon X1 Elite Laptop Support Enables Experimental Hardware Video Decode

29. Leden 2025 - 12:28
Canonical has been maintaining experimental/testing ISOs of Ubuntu Linux for Snapdragon X1 Elite laptops. New ISOs for testing were recently published and allow enabling more features/functionality for these ARM laptops under Ubuntu...

Linux 6.14 NFS Adds Direct I/O With LOCALIO, Attribute Delegation Support

29. Leden 2025 - 12:12
The Network File System (NFS) client and server changes have been merged for the ongoing Linux 6.14 merge window...

LLVM 20 Feature Development Wraps Up With AMX-AVX512, AMX-FP8, AVX10.2 & AMD GFX950

29. Leden 2025 - 11:54
The LLVM 20 compiler stack saw its code branched from the mainline Git codebase last night as release preparations begin for what will be LLVM 20.1 as the inaugural stable release...

Linux 6.14 With Rust: "We Are Almost At The 'Write A Real Driver In Rust' Stage Now"

29. Leden 2025 - 1:26
Greg Kroah-Hartman today sent out the pull request of all the driver core updates for Linux 6.14, which ends up being a big deal for those interested in the prospects of Rust drivers for the Linux kernel...