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Google's agentic AI code review service, Sashiko, has expanded its monitoring to include submissions on the Rust-For-Linux mailing list. Unveiled by Google engineers a few days ago, Sashiko is powered...
Read more →A fix for a long-standing bug affecting AMD GCN 1.0 "Hainan" GPU models has been merged into the Linux 7.0 kernel overnight. This addresses a bug report from 2021 concerning GPU hangs on these aging g...
Read more →Microsoft has today posted a new version of its Linux kernel patches for the WSL.">DXGKRNL driver. This update comes exactly four years after the prior version, addressing the DirectX kernel driver's role i...
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 Linux kernel's extensible scheduler class, BPF programs.">sched_ext, is set to receive a new capability, SCX_ENQ_IMMED, in the upcoming Linux 7.1 release. This functionality is currently queued in the sched_ext ...
Read more →Linux 7.0-rc4 was released today, bringing the kernel closer to its stable debut, anticipated in approximately one month. This latest release candidate integrates critical scheduler updates, which wer...
Read more →Kent Overstreet today released Bcachefs 1.37, the newest feature release for this out-of-tree file-system driver and its user-space tooling. This update brings support for Linux kernel 7.0. A signific...
Read more →NVIDIA today released its 580.142 production branch driver for Linux. This update is noteworthy as it includes the open GPU kernel modules, an ongoing initiative by NVIDIA to enhance integration and t...
Read more →An independently developed open-source Linux kernel module called GreenBoost has been reported today. It aims to augment the dedicated video memory (vRAM) on NVIDIA discrete GPUs by utilizing both sys...
Read more →The upcoming Linux 7.0 kernel will include a new minor performance optimization targeting its event poll "epoll" code. This change, merged today, refines the mechanism for efficient I/O multiplexing a...
Read more →NVIDIA today released its 595.45.04 proprietary driver for Linux systems. This new driver version is now available for download from NVIDIA's official driver portal. Concurrently, the company's open-g...
Read more →AMD today submitted a request for comments (RFC) patch series to the Linux kernel mailing list (LKML) introducing the Dynamic Power and Thermal Configuration Interface (DPTCi) driver. This new driver ...
Read more →The upcoming Linux 7.1 kernel will introduce a new default behavior for handling fatal Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) errors. As reported by Phoronix, systems encountering such erro...
Read more →The second weekly release candidate for Linux 7.0, designated 7.0-rc2, was made available for testing recently. Linus Torvalds commented on the current state of the development cycle, noting, "So I'm ...
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 →Collabora recently announced that support for Rockchip's VDPU381 and VDPU383 video decoders has been merged into the upstream Linux kernel. This integration brings mainline H.264 and HEVC decode capab...
Read more →NVIDIA has released version 580.126.20 of its open GPU kernel modules, providing an update to the open-source component of its Linux GPU drivers. This release builds upon the development of the 580 se...
Read more →Linus Torvalds announced the release of Linux 7.0-rc1 today, marking the conclusion of the kernel's merge window for the upcoming stable release. This version bump to 7.0 follows Torvalds' practice of...
Read more →The performance "perf" subsystem tooling for Linux 7.0 received updates last Saturday, February 21, 2026. These changes were merged as the Linux 7.0 merge window is nearing its close, ahead of the 7.0...
Read more →Last week, the Linux 7.0 kernel merge window saw the main feature pull for Rust programming language updates. This officially concluded Rust's "experimental" phase for Linux kernel and driver programm...
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 →Linux block maintainer and IO_uring lead developer Jens Axboe recently utilized Claude AI to debug performance issues within the AHCI/SCSI code when using IO_uring. This collaboration led to the devel...
Read more →Phoronix has reported early performance regressions for Intel Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake" processors when tested with development builds of Linux 7.0. Benchmarking was conducted ahead of the up...
Read more →NVIDIA today, February 19, 2026, released the 580.126.18 version of its Open GPU Kernel Vulkan Dev Beta Driver. This update follows the 580.94.17 beta driver that was made available last month. The 58...
Read more →More Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) changes have been committed to the AMDGPU LLVM back-end, further detailing the GFX1170 GPU target. This GFX1170 part, initially spotted earlier this month, is d...
Read more →A new patch series was sent out for review this weekend, aiming to significantly enhance Linux system hibernation performance. The proposed changes are particularly beneficial for systems utilizing sl...
Read more →The HID subsystem changes were merged into the Linux 7.0 kernel this week, marking an expansion in supported human interface devices. This update brings official support for Rock Band 4 guitars from b...
Read more →NVIDIA has provided open-source contributions this week to enhance the existing Nouveau kernel driver. The posted patches aim to bring up support for the NVIDIA GA100 GPU, leveraging the GPU System Pr...
Read more →Collabora recently detailed its significant contributions to the ongoing development of Linux Kernel 6.19. The company's 21 developers contributed 125 patches, focusing on key areas for graphics and s...
Read more →All memory management (MM) related patches have been merged into the ongoing Linux 7.0 kernel merge window. These updates, integrated recently, are set to be part of the upcoming kernel release. Phoro...
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 →On February 11, 2026, significant updates to the Linux 7.0 kernel scheduler were merged. These changes introduce a new Time Slice Extension feature, alongside continued efforts in performance optimiza...
Read more →The Linux 7.0 kernel merge window commenced today, bringing initial significant changes. Christian Brauner's VFS pull requests were merged, introducing the NULLFS and OPEN_TREE_NAMESPACE features. NUL...
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 →Linus Torvalds has confirmed that the next major release of the Linux kernel will be version 7.0. The announcement came following the recent release of Linux 6.19 stable, with Torvalds stating he "off...
Read more →A Linux kernel engineer at Microsoft, Hamza Mahfooz, is developing a Kernel Mode-Setting (KMS) recovery mechanism for Linux display drivers. Mahfooz, who previously contributed to the AMDGPU Linux dis...
Read more →The Linux 6.19 stable kernel is anticipated to be released tomorrow, February 9, 2026. This upcoming kernel version is set to integrate several new features. Phoronix highlighted that these additions ...
Read more →The Intel Xe Linux driver is set to restore D3cold power state support for most Battlemage GPUs with the upcoming Linux 7.0 kernel cycle. This change loosens a restriction that was implemented approxi...
Read more →The forthcoming Linux 7.0 kernel is expected to resolve bugs preventing the Mesa NVK driver from utilizing large page support and compression within the Nouveau kernel driver. This functionality, whic...
Read more →The forthcoming Linux 7.0 kernel is being prepared to integrate support for Microsoft's "Turn On Display" ACPI Device Specific Method (DSM). This notification method was initially introduced by Micros...
Read more →Linux 6.19-rc8 was released today, February 2, 2026, marking an extended development cycle for the upcoming kernel version. This additional release candidate emerged "not due to any scary bugs but rat...
Read more →NVIDIA yesterday released version 580.94.17 of its open-gpu-kernel-modules via GitHub. This particular release is a Vulkan Developer Beta Driver. As per NVIDIA, these beta drivers "primarily focus on ...
Read more →Linux 6.19-rc7 was released today, January 26, 2026, keeping the kernel on schedule for its official stable release two weeks from now. This release candidate includes a few important fixes. An additi...
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. ...
Read more →Intel Linux engineers have developed a pending patch aimed at significantly improving NVMe storage performance on high core count processors. The optimization targets situations where multiple CPUs sh...
Read more →The HP-WMI driver is slated to receive manual fan control support for select HP OMEN and Victus S-Series gaming laptops in the upcoming Linux 6.20~7.0 kernel cycle. This enhancement will enable Linux ...
Read more →On Friday, AMD submitted another set of patches for its AMDGPU kernel graphics driver and AMDKFD kernel compute driver. These driver improvements have been queued in DRM-Next, a staging area for kerne...
Read more →A patch has been queued into the x86/cpu Git branch for the upcoming Linux 7.0 kernel cycle, which enables Intel Transactional Synchronization Extensions (TSX) by default. This change applies to capab...
Read more →The upcoming Linux 7.0 kernel cycle is slated to provide expanded GPU temperature reporting capabilities for Intel graphics cards. This enhancement specifically targets the Intel Xe driver, which will...
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