Linux Graphics & Gaming News
Collabora's Tyr project reached a significant milestone yesterday, successfully booting the Arm Mali-G610 GPU's Microcontroller Unit (MCU). This achievement leveraged upstream Rust DRM memory-manageme...
Read more →Collabora recently outlined their ongoing work to enable USB-C DisplayPort Alternate Mode support on Linux for Rockchip RK3588 and RK3576 System-on-Chips. This development targets devices such as the ...
Read more →Mesa 26.3 has merged user-space support for DRM format modifiers, targeting AMD GFX6 through GFX8 era GPUs. This work, primarily led by Valve's Timur Kristóf, extends to graphics cards from the origin...
Read more →The Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) subsystem updates have been merged for the ongoing Linux 7.3 merge window. These updates introduce significant graphics driver improvements across a range of hardwar...
Read more →DRM-Next this week received significant Rust core and driver changes targeting the upcoming Linux 7.3 kernel merge window. These updates further advance the open-source NVIDIA GPU driver "Nova," which...
Read more →Google has released an official Arm64 Linux build of its Chrome web browser. This new build is now available through Google's Debian and RPM repositories, offering native support for Arm64-based syste...
Read more →A series of patches introducing a cold reset recovery method for Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) drivers is currently under active development and revision. This effort primarily targets the Intel Xe k...
Read more →Collabora has released Weston 16, the latest version of its reference Wayland compositor. The update focuses on expanding High Dynamic Range (HDR) and color management support, enhancing Perfetto debu...
Read more →Phoronix reported today that a set of patches targeting the Linux kernel's Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) scheduler has demonstrated significant potential for reducing job submission latency. These im...
Read more →The Linux kernel 7.1 has been released, bringing a range of updates across various subsystems. Key improvements in this version include significant enhancements to graphics capabilities, further integ...
Read more →The upcoming Linux 7.1 kernel release is undergoing a significant change in its graphics and accelerator drivers, with a specific DRM ioctl interface being disabled. This interface, which was original...
Read more →Development for the upcoming Linux 7.2 kernel has begun, with the initial "drm-misc-next" pull request submitted to DRM-Next in April. This occurred while the Linux 7.1 merge window was still active. ...
Read more →AMD today submitted a new set of kernel graphics and compute driver changes to DRM-Next. These updates, sent ahead of the Linux 7.1 merge window next month, include further enablement for the GFX12.1 ...
Read more →AMD engineers are actively prototyping a Shared Virtual Memory (SVM) implementation for the AMDGPU driver on Linux. This proof-of-concept leverages the kernel's existing DRM_GPUSVM framework, which is...
Read more →The first DRM-Misc-Next pull request for the upcoming Linux 7.1 kernel was submitted this week, initiating the queue for new kernel graphics and display driver features. This early submission includes...
Read more →The Linux 7.0 kernel recently received its initial round of fixes for its Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) graphics drivers. Merged into Linux 7.0 Git yesterday, on February 21, 2026, these updates prim...
Read more →The extensive set of Linux kernel graphics and display driver updates, known as Direct Rendering Manager or DRM, were merged today, February 12, 2026, for the upcoming Linux 7.0 kernel. This update pa...
Read more →Linux kernel 6.19 was released today, February 09, 2026, by Linus Torvalds, marking the first major kernel release of the year. This version introduces significant updates for GPU users. Older AMD Rad...
Read more →A recently identified oversight in the Linux kernel's Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) graphics driver common code allowed unprivileged users to potentially trigger unbounded kernel memory consumption. ...
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