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Attack Vector Controls Land In Linux 6.17 To Better Control CPU Security Mitigations

1. Srpen 2025 - 17:13
The Attack Vector Controls work is now in Linux 6.17 for those new tuning knobs worked on by AMD engineer David Kaplan to make it more straight-forward for Linux server administrators and power users to more easily select the CPU security mitigations relevant to their system(s) and intended workloads...

Vulkan 1.4.324 Adds Experimental AMD Extension To Help With Ray-Tracing

1. Srpen 2025 - 14:00
Vulkan 1.4.324 is out today as the first Vulkan API specification update in two weeks with a variety of clarifications/corrections plus a new extension from AMD...

More Intel Driver Maintainer Changes In Linux 6.17

1. Srpen 2025 - 13:44
Following the recent Intel driver being orphaned due to layoffs at the company and other Intel Linux engineering changes due to the ongoing restructuring at the company, for the Linux 6.17 kernel there are some additional Intel driver maintainer changes spotted...

Intel IPU7 Driver Merged For Linux 6.17 For Webcams On Lunar Lake & Panther Lake Laptops

1. Srpen 2025 - 11:36
The media subsystem updates were submitted and subsequently merged on Thursday for the ongoing Linux 6.17 merge window. There are several notable media changes for Linux 6.17 but arguably most prominent is the IPU7 driver entering staging for working on web camera support for Intel Lunar Lake and next-generation Panther Lake laptops...

EXT4 Shows Wild Gains With Better Block Allocation Scalability In Linux 6.17

1. Srpen 2025 - 11:06
The EXT4 file-system enhancements for Linux 6.17 were merged on Thursday and bring better scalability to the block allocation code as well as fixing the file-system's large folios support. The scalability work can show some wild gains in select areas...

Framework 12, Clear Linux Going EOL, AMD EPYC Performance & Other Excitement In July

1. Srpen 2025 - 11:00
During last month on Phoronix were 276 original news articles and another 15 featured reviews/benchmark articles around our forte of Linux hardware. Even with the summer here there has been no slowdown in interesting hardware running on Linux and the pace of innovation happening around open-source software...

Linux 6.17 EDAC Code Supports Several Newer Intel CPUs

1. Srpen 2025 - 10:35
The Error Detection And Correction "EDAC" driver improvements were merged earlier this week for the ongoing Linux 6.17 merge window and with that comes a number of Intel hardware platforms now being supported...