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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 600/700 "Kepler" GPUs Now Vulkan 1.2 Conformant With NVK

Yet more feature code continues piling in for the Mesa 25.2 release due out next month and days ahead of the feature freeze. Hitting Mesa Git this evening is now treating NVIDIA Kepler GPUs as Vulkan 1.2 conformant following the Vulkan 1.2 CTS passing with the NVK open-source driver paired with the Nouveau kernel driver...
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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 600/700 "Kepler" GPUs Now Vulkan 1.2 Conformant With NVK

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Additional AMD RDNA3 & RDNA4 Ray-Tracing Improvements For Mesa 25.2 RADV

Ahead of the Mesa 25.2 feature freeze and code branching expected later this week, some additional ray-tracing optimizations were merged today for the Radeon "RADV" Vulkan driver. These latest RADV ray-tracing improvements benefit the latest Radeon RX 9000 series "RDNA4" the most but there are also some optimizations too for RDNA3 class GPUs...
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Additional AMD RDNA3 & RDNA4 Ray-Tracing Improvements For Mesa 25.2 RADV

Ahead of the Mesa 25.2 feature freeze and code branching expected later this week, some additional ray-tracing optimizations were merged today for the Radeon 'RADV' Vulkan driver
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Intel Enabling SR-IOV For Battlemage Graphics Cards With Linux 6.17

The upcoming Linux 6.17 kernel is going to be an especially nice release for users of modern Intel graphics hardware on Linux. The very latest feature being enabled for this next Linux kernel version is SR-IOV for Battlemage GPUs to vastly enhance the Intel Linux graphics experience in virtualized environments...
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Intel Enabling SR-IOV For Battlemage Graphics Cards With Linux 6.17

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LibreOffice Office Suite Lands Built-In Support For Bitcoin Currency lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

LibreOffice Office Suite Lands Built-In Support For Bitcoin Currency

Merged yesterday to the latest development code for the LibreOffice open-source office suite is now recognizing Bitcoin 'BTC' as a supported currency for use within the Calc spreadsheet program and elsewhere within this cross-platform free software o…
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Broadcom BCM5770X Networking Driver Support Heading To Linux 6.17

One month ago there was the report on Phoronix of the Broadcom "BNGE" open-source driver being published for forthcoming BCM5770X networking chipsets. That new Broadcom BNGE driver is now set to be introduced in the upcoming Linux 6.17 kernel for supporting the new Broadcom wired networking hardware at up to 800 Gigabit speeds...
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Broadcom BCM5770X Networking Driver Support Heading To Linux 6.17

One month ago there was the report on Phoronix of the Broadcom 'BNGE' open-source driver being published for forthcoming BCM5770X networking chipsets
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LLVM 22 Compiler Enters Development With LLVM 21 Now Branched

The LLVM 21 compiler stack was branched today as release preparations get underway for shipping this next half-year compiler release as stable in late August or early September. In turn that now opens up LLVM 22 for development...
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LLVM 22 Compiler Enters Development With LLVM 21 Now Branched

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GTK3 Port Of The Kernel's gconfig Utility Appears Ready For Linux 6.17

Last month patches were posted for porting the Linux kernel's "gconfig" graphical kernel configuration utility from GTK2 to GTK3. It looks like those patches for the GTK3-ified gconfig are ready for upstreaming come Linux 6.17...
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GTK3 Port Of The Kernel's gconfig Utility Appears Ready For Linux 6.17

Last month patches were posted for porting the Linux kernel's 'gconfig' graphical kernel configuration utility from GTK2 to GTK3
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Intel ANV Driver Now Exposes Vulkan Video AV1 Decode On Battlemage & Lunar Lake

While the Intel Media SDK with VA-API has long supported accelerated video decoding, the latest Mesa 25.2 development code has now landed support for AV1 decoding using the Vulkan Video API with the Intel ANV driver for Xe2 Battlemage / Lunar Lake graphics and Gfx125 Xe graphics too...
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Intel ANV Driver Now Exposes Vulkan Video AV1 Decode On Battlemage & Lunar Lake

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Latest Intel Engineering Layoffs Lead To An Intel Linux Driver Being Orphaned

The latest round of cost-cutting at Intel seems to be having a larger impact on their software engineering efforts than some of their previous rounds of layoffs. In addition to a prominent Linux kernel developer veteran leaving Intel last week where he worked for the past 14 years and responsible for many great upstream improvements, other Intel software enginee…
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Latest Intel Engineering Layoffs Lead To An Intel Linux Driver Being Orphaned

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Google Publishes Updated Proposal For Standardizing Haptic Touchpads On Linux

As part of work going back to 2019, an engineer on Google's Chromium OS team submitted an updated proposal on Monday for seeking to standardize the haptic touchpad support within the Linux kernel...
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Google Publishes Updated Proposal For Standardizing Haptic Touchpads On Linux

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RADV Lands Experimental Host Image Copy Support (VK_EXT_host_image_copy)

Making it into the RADV Vulkan driver ahead of this week's Mesa 25.2 feature freeze is experimental support for the VK_EXT_host_image_copy extension. The Vulkan host image copy extension was worked on by Valve and others for letting applications/games copy data between the host memory and images on the host processor without having to first stage via a GPU-accessible buf…
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RADV Lands Experimental Host Image Copy Support (VK_EXT_host_image_copy)

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New Effort To Upstream LTTng In The Linux Kernel Draws Criticism From Torvalds lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

New Effort To Upstream LTTng In The Linux Kernel Draws Criticism From Torvalds

The LTTng tracing toolkit is twenty years old this year and it's seen significant adoption by different hyperscalers and other notable organizations like IBM and Sony and Siemens beyond basic end-users and administrators for system tracing/debugging
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Old Radeon HD 2000/3000/4000 GPUs Still Seeing Open-Source Driver Fixes In 2025 lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

Old Radeon HD 2000/3000/4000 GPUs Still Seeing Open-Source Driver Fixes In 2025

In addition to last minute feature work on the latest AMD RDNA4 graphics cards ahead of the Mesa 25.2 code branching, there's also some new fixes going into Mesa for the open-source Radeon driver code..
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New Effort To Upstream LTTng In The Linux Kernel Draws Criticism From Torvalds

The LTTng tracing toolkit is twenty years old this year and it's seen significant adoption by different hyperscalers and other notable organizations like IBM and Sony and Siemens beyond basic end-users and administrators for system tracing/debugging. While having many successes over the past two decades, the kernel modules remain outside of the kernel tree. Eve…
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New Effort To Upstream LTTng In The Linux Kernel Draws Criticism From Torvalds

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Intel Xe3 Panther Lake OpenGL & Vulkan Support Now Enabled By Default On Linux

With the upcoming Linux 6.17 kernel the Intel Xe kernel graphics driver is enabling Panther Lake graphics out-of-the-box. Now going along with that Linux 6.17+ support out-of-the-box, the Mesa OpenGL and Vulkan user-space drivers are also ready to declare their Xe3 Panther Lake graphics support by default...
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Intel Xe3 Panther Lake OpenGL & Vulkan Support Now Enabled By Default On Linux

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NanoPi R76S Brings Dual 2.5GbE to Fanless RK3576-Based Router Board lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

NanoPi R76S Brings Dual 2.5GbE to Fanless RK3576-Based Router Board NanoPi R76S Brings Dual 2.5GbE to Fanless RK3576-Based Router Board

Following the NanoPi R3S LTS, FriendlyELEC has launched the NanoPi R76S, a compact router board powered by the Rockchip RK3576. Designed for edge networking and IoT, it features dual 2.5Gbps Ethernet, HDMI, USB 3.2, and AI acceleration.
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New Linux Patches Enable Support For The Snapdragon X1 Powered Microsoft Surface Pro 11

Posted today to the Linux kernel mailing list are a set of nine patches for bringing up support for the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite/Plus powered Microsoft Surface Pro 11 2-in-1 laptop...
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New Linux Patches Enable Support For The Snapdragon X1 Powered Microsoft Surface Pro 11

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(Updated) ALPHA-One Leverages RISC-V StarPro64 for Compact Local LLM Deployment lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

(Updated) ALPHA-One Leverages RISC-V StarPro64 for Compact Local LLM Deployment ALPHA-One 7B Leverages RISC-V StarPro64 for Compact Local LLM Deployment

PINE64 has shared early details of the ALPHA-One 7B, a compact generative AI agent powered by the RISC-V-based StarPro64 SBC. Priced at $329.
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