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Mesa 25.2 Released With Many Improvements For RADV, Intel & NVK Drivers

6. Srpen 2025 - 18:46
Mesa 25.2 is now available as the newest quarterly feature release for this set of open-source Linux graphics drivers predominantly for OpenGL, Vulkan, and video acceleration support on the Linux desktop...

Intel Xe Enabling SR-IOV PF By Default, Marking Driver As "Broken" For Non-4K Kernels

6. Srpen 2025 - 15:25
On top of all the Linux 6.17 kernel graphics driver feature changes that landed last week like promoting Panther Lake's Xe3 graphics to on-by-default, SR-IOV for Battlemage GPUs, multi-GPU preparations, Wildcat Lake enablement work, and more, some additional Intel Xe kernel graphics driver changes were submitted today for merging to Linux 6.17 in the coming days...

AlmaLinux Introduces Native NVIDIA Support Using Open-Source Kernel Driver

6. Srpen 2025 - 14:59
The AlmaLinux project announced today that there is now "native" NVIDIA graphics driver support for AlmaLinux 10 and AlmaLinux 9 using NVIDIA's open-source kernel modules that are now conveniently packaged in an AlmaLinux repository for easy usage complete with NVIDIA's closed-source user-space packages like CUDA...

Linux 6.17 Fixes A Performance Bottleneck In The Futex Code

6. Srpen 2025 - 13:50
Merged last week for Linux 6.17 were the FUTEX locking changes that include addressing an observed performance bottleneck...

Btrfs Sees Urgent Fix Following Recent Reports Of Log Tree Corruption

6. Srpen 2025 - 13:11
On Linux 6.15.3+ there have been increased reports of log tree corruption being hit by users of the Btrfs file-system. Fortunately, a fix has now been submitted for Linux 6.17 Git and then for back-porting to the recent stable kernel versions...

Valve's ACO Compiler Used By AMD Drivers Optimize Scheduling Heuristic For Newer GPUs

6. Srpen 2025 - 11:30
Merged today for Mesa 25.3-devel to benefit the RADV Vulkan and RadeonSI Gallium3D AMD drivers are improved scheduling heuristics for the ACO compiler back-end developed by Valve...

Linux 6.17 Optimizes khugepaged For ARM64 With Huge "16x" Impact For One Code Path

6. Srpen 2025 - 11:20
Andrew Morton this week sent in some additional memory management "MM" changes for the Linux 6.17 to complement last week's many MM patches from new optimizations to more DAMON features. Most notable with this secondary set of patches are khugepaged optimizations that especially help ARM64 Linux systems...

GTK3 Version Of gconfig Merged For Linux 6.17

6. Srpen 2025 - 10:59
All of the Kbuild changes were merged today for the Linux 6.17 kernel. Most notable with the Kbuild changes is the gconfig graphical utility for configuring the Linux kernel configuration now being ported from GTK2 to GTK3...