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February 9, 2024
While the Linux kernel has seen increased activity around dropping old/unused hardware drivers and other support, for old hardware that is still proven to be used on upstream Linux kernel releases does stick around and even will see the occasional fix..
February 9, 2024
It looks like next-generation RDNA4 graphics will feature a new iteration of the Video Core Next (VCN) for accelerated video encode/decode
February 9, 2024
Merged for Mesa 24.1 is Teflon for Etnaviv NPU driver support in enabling reverse-engineered, open-source driver support for VeriSilicon NPU IP similar to the long-standing Etnaviv Gallium3D graphics support for Vivante graphics
February 9, 2024
Vulkanised 2024 took place this week in Sunnyvale, California as the 6th go at this Vulkan Developer Conference
February 9, 2024
Webcamera support on recent generations of Intel laptops have tended to be a mess due to the Intel IPU6 requiring an out-of-tree kernel driver and a proprietary user-space component
February 9, 2024
While AMD ships pre-built ROCm/HIP stacks for the major enterprise Linux distributions, if you are using not one of them or just want to be adventurous and compile your own stack for building HIP programs for running on AMD GPUs, one of the AMD Linux developers has written a how-to guide.
February 9, 2024
Along with the recently merged Intel OpenGL and Vulkan driver support for Arrow Lake next-generation Core processors with Mesa 24.1, it looks like the i915 kernel graphics driver support for Arrow Lake will be all-set with the upcoming Linux 6.9 kernel cycle.
February 8, 2024
There's been recent reports that Microsoft is bringing sudo to Windows as discovered in recent Windows 11 Insider previews
February 8, 2024
Asynchronous device shutdown support for the Linux kernel has been pursued in the past as with hyperscalers like Google having too many NVMe storage devices can slow the shutdown/reboot process
February 8, 2024
As the first of Arm Mali firmware to be added to the linux-firmware.git repository, the Gen10 Mali 'Panthor' firmware has been added as part of the effort on the new open-source Panthor DRM kernel driver currently working its way upstream.