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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-14 22:24:05)
Linux Kernel Graphics Driver Proposed For GlandaGPU: An Open-Source Soft GPU Core
A new Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) kernel graphics driver has been sent out for GlandaGPU, an open-source custom 3D graphics core designed in VHDL and running on FPGA hardware...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GlandaGPU-Linux-Driver-RFC
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-14 22:09:06)
Intel IGC 2.38.2 Brings Latest Round Of Graphics Compiler Improvements
Ahead of the next Intel Compute Runtime release, IGC 2.38.2 was released today as the newest feature update to this open-source graphics compiler used by Intel iGPU/dGPU hardware on both Windows and Linux...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-IGC-2.38.2
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-14 21:09:05)
Intel Vulkan Driver Now Supports H.265 10-bit Video Encoding
Hyunjun Ko with Igalia continues advancing the Vulkan Video capabilities of the Intel open-source "ANV" Vulkan driver for Linux systems...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Vulkan-Video-10-bit-H265
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-14 19:54:06)
Linux Dealing With Apple's Wild Mess Of Sensors On Apple Silicon SoCs
While there has been the Apple System Management Controller "SMC" hardware monitoring driver with the intent on exposing battery/power stats as well as thermal and more for Apple Silicon SoCs on Linux, it hasn't yet been working out properly on the mainline kernel. Between missing Device Tree nodes to the hodgepodge mess of sensors between the different Apple M-Series SoCs, it's a mess...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Apple-Wild-Mess-Sensors-Linux
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-14 19:24:05)
Haiku Merges NVMM For Initial Virtualization Support, But It Doesn't Yet Fully Work
The BeOS-inspired Haiku open-source operating system project has published their June 2026 status report. In the past month the developers merged their NVMM VM monitor support, hardware driver improvements, and progressed toward the upcoming Haiku sixth beta release...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Haiku-June-2026
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-14 19:09:06)
"Light" GRUB Alternative Package For Confidential Computing Approved For Fedora 45
A month ago there was a change proposal raised for offering a "light" version of the GRUB2 bootloader for use in confidential computing environments. While there were some differing views on the matter for this alternative, stripped-down GRUB package as opposed to just using other bootloaders like systemd-boot, ultimately, the proposal is now approved...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GRUB-Light-Approved-Fedora-45
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-14 18:54:05)
Weston 16.0 Compositor Released With HDR Improvements, Vulkan Fixes
Overnight the Weston 16.0 release occurred as the latest milestone for this reference Wayland compositor...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wayland-Weston-16.0
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-14 09:54:07)
New Linux Patches Aim To Better Handle Multiple Swap Devices
For those having Linux systems with multiple swap devices, such as for swap tiering or layered swap handling, a set of patches posted today for the Linux kernel are looking to improve the situation...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Improve-Multi-Swap-Device
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-14 02:09:02)
Graviton5 Outperforming Intel Xeon Granite Rapids But Falls Short Of AMD EPYC Turin
Following the recent GA of the AWS M9g series as the first instances powered by the new Graviton5 CPUs, I recently ran benchmarks looking at Graviton4 vs. Graviton5 CPU performance. There was very nice generational gains for the new AWS Graviton processors with the shift from Arm Neoverse-V2 to Neoverse-V3 cores and from DDR5-5600 to DDR5-8800 memory, among other improvements. For those …
https://www.phoronix.com/review/graviton5-epyc-xeon
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-13 22:39:28)
FreeBSD Desktop Installer Option Working Through NVIDIA Driver Handling, Licensing
Alfonso Siciliano, who has been one of the FreeBSD developers leading the effort on adding a KDE-based desktop option to the FreeBSD installer, provided an update on recent work around adding integrating this desktop option...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-Desktop-Install-NVIDIA
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-13 19:54:05)
GNOME OS Creating "Test Center" As Its Take On Apple TestFlight For Experiment Software
GNOME developers working on GNOME OS have received funding from Germany's Prototype Fund to work on creating the GNOME OS "Developer Tool Suite" or also tentatively called their "Test Center" to help in testing experimental applications/libraries in a modern Linux computing world with systemd-sysext, Buildstream, and other newer tech...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-OS-Test-Center
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-13 19:40:04)
Reworked System Call Entry Handling Slated For Linux 7.3
Stemming from looking at a proposed Linux kernel patch to alter the Linux kernel's system call number handling, veteran Linux kernel developer Thomas Gleixner went down a rabbit hole of the kernel's system call entry handling to make a number of clean-ups and improvements to the code. That rework to the system call entry handling is now expected to land for the Linux 7.3 kernel cycle...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rework-Sysclal-Entry-Linux-7.3
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-13 19:09:09)
Raspberry Pi 5 IOMMU Driver Being Worked On For The Mainline Linux Kernel
While the Raspberry Pi 5 is already over two and a half years old, one of the missing elements of its support from the mainline Linux kernel has been the IOMMU driver. We are now seeing Raspberry Pi's downstream IOMMU driver being adapted for mainline with hopes of getting it into the upstream kernel...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Raspberry-Pi-5-IOMMU-Driver
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-13 19:09:07)
Cloud Hypervisor 53 Released With Offloaded Snapshot/Restore Daemon
Cloud Hypervisor 53.0 is now available for this open-source, Rust-based VMM focused on cloud workloads and modern security needs. Originally started at Intel, Cloud Hypervisor continues seeing new development these days by Microsoft, Meta, Arm, and other organizations...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Cloud-Hypervisor-53
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-13 07:24:07)
Linux 7.2-rc3 Released: Close To The "New Normal"
Linux 7.2-rc3 is now available for testing in working toward the stable Linux 7.2 kernel version coming up in August...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-rc3-Released
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-13 05:40:25)
Linux 7.2 Enabling UltraRISC RISC-V Support In The Default Kernel Build
Similar to Linux 7.2 enabling Eswin SoC support by default in the RISC-V "defconfig" kernel build, UltraRISC RISC-V coverage is also now being enabled by default for RISC-V kernel builds in Linux 7.2...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-UltraRISC-RISC-V
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-12 20:09:06)
HFI BIOS Aims To Provide A POST-Like Power On Screen & BIOS Setup Utility For RISC-V
The Harmonic Firmware Initiative "HFI" is trying to provide a generic, standardized power-on firmware experience for RISC-V boards. Akin to the x86 world with having immediate graphics card initialization to provide a display while the system is booting and also having a BIOS setup utility for system configuration, HFI is trying to do the same for the RISC-V world...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Harmonic-Firmware-Initiative
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-12 19:39:28)
Linux 7.2-rc3 Bringing Fixes For The SEGA Dreamcast Drivers In 2026
It wasn't on my bingo card for the week but merged to Git ahead of today's Linux 7.2-rc3 kernel release are a number of fixes for the SEGA Dreamcast drivers...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-rc3-SEGA-Dreamcast
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-12 19:24:06)
Realtek RTL8723BS WiFi Linux Driver Hardened Against Malicious WiFi Access Points
The staging driver fixes that were sent out this week ahead of the Linux 7.2-rc3 release is predominantly made up of hardening the Realtek RTL8723BS WiFi driver. In particular, a number of fixes for addressing out-of-bounds behavior when connecting to "bad" WiFi hosts...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Realtek-RTL8723BS-WiFi-Bad-APs
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-11 23:39:18)
Debian 13.6 Released To Ship All The Latest Security Fixes, Reverts GeoIP Database
Debian 13.6 is out today as the newest point release of Debian Trixie to ship the latest security fixes and other maintenance updates...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Debian-13.6-Released
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-11 22:24:05)
Linux 7.3-rc3 Bringing Display Detection Improvement To Help Some Multi-GPU Systems
Sent out today was this week's round of x86 (x86_64) fixes ahead of the Linux 7.3-rc3 kernel test candidate due out on Sunday...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-rc3-Multi-GPU-Fix
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-11 19:24:04)
LLVM Merges x86 LFI "Lightweight Fault Isolation" Target For In-Process Sandboxing
Stanford researchers have been developing Lightweight Fault Isolation "LFI" compiler passes and targets for LLVM as a means of efficient, native code sandboxing. The AArch64 LFI target was previously upstreamed while this week the x86/x86_64 LFI target was also upstreamed for this means of in-process sandboxing...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/LLVM-x86-LFI-Merged
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-11 19:09:13)
KDE Developers Continue Landing More Features For Plasma 6.8
KDE developers continue to be very busy this summer landing more features for the upcoming Plasma 6.8 desktop...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Plasma-6.8-Spectacle-Audio
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-11 17:09:06)
Mesa's Rusticl Now Enables Arm Mali Panfrost Driver Support By Default
A change upstreamed to Mesa by an Arm engineer now enables the Panfrost Gallium3D driver for Arm Mali graphics to work with the Rusticl driver by default...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-Rusticl-Panfrost-Default
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-11 09:54:07)
Wine 11.13 Better Supports Input Pointers, Improved Keyboard Scancode Mapping For X11
Wine 11.13 is out today as the newest bi-weekly development release for this open-source software enabling support for running Windows games and applications on Linux...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-11.13-Released
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-11 09:39:25)
Pop!_OS Rolls Out Its "Frosted Glass" Desktop Style For COSMIC
System76 developers have for the past number of weeks been working on developing a "frosted glass" appearance for the COSMIC desktop environment featured on their Pop!_OS Linux distribution. For Pop!_OS users this frosted glass feature is now available and will become more widespread for other Linux distributions once the next COSMIC release is formally tagged...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/COSMIC-Frosted-Glass-Arrives
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-11 00:54:02)
KDE Plasma 6.7 X11 vs. Wayland Session Gaming Performance For NVIDIA On CachyOS
With KDE Plasma 6.7 now having seen a few point releases to further polish this last version with X11 support ahead of Plasma 6.8 going Wayland-only, here are some NVIDIA Linux gaming benchmarks between the X11 and Wayland sessions on Plasma 6.7.2 using the popular Arch Linux based CachyOS.
https://www.phoronix.com/review/plasma-67-wayland-cachyos
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-10 22:40:21)
Linux 7.3 Enabling Second Graphics Pipe For Modern AMD APUs
AMD on Thursday sent out another round of AMDGPU kernel graphics driver and AMDKFD kernel compute driver updates to DRM-Next of new feature material ahead of the Linux 7.3 merge window...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-Second-Pipe-GFX11-APU
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-10 19:40:05)
Linux DT Patches Provide Very Basic Support For Apple M3 Pro / Max / Ultra
Upstreamed for the Linux 7.2 kernel was initial support for booting Linux on the Apple M3 SoC devices. But just the barebones suppport for booting with not yet any accelerated graphics or other typical function needed for daily use of M3 Apple devices on Linux, just booting to a console. Now this work is complemented by additional Device Tree patches for also booting M3 Pro / Max / Ultra devices …
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-DT-Apple-M3-Pro-Max-Ultra
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-10 19:24:07)
HiZ Plane Optimization Merged For Intel Vulkan Linux Driver For Some Performance Benefit
After two years being on the TODO list for a possible performance optimization, the Intel open-source "ANV" Vulkan driver has now merged an HiZ plane optimization that can yield up to a few percent frame-rate improvement for Linux gaming/graphics on newer Intel integrated and discrete graphics hardware...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-HiZ-Plane-Optimization
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