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Comprehensive AMD SEV vTPM Support in Linux Kernel 6.16 Enhances Confidential Computing lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

Comprehensive AMD SEV vTPM Support in Linux Kernel 6.16 Enhances Confidential Computing - LinuxConfig

Linux kernel 6.16 introduces comprehensive AMD SEV vTPM support, enhancing virtual machine security and confidential computing capabilities with hardware-backed attestation and secure boot verification.
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Bcachefs To Remove Its Experimental Label In Linux 6.18 - If It's Still In The Kernel

With the Linux 6.17 merge window now open, Bcachefs file-system lead developer Kent Overstreet has submitted his planned changes for this next kernel version. But we await to see how Linus Torvalds will respond...
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Bcachefs To Remove Its Experimental Label In Linux 6.18 - If It's Still In The Kernel

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Linux 6.16's New "X86_NATIVE_CPU" Option Enhances I/O & Some Graphics/Gaming Workloads

With the newly-released Linux 6.16 kernel there is the new X86_NATIVE_CPU build option if wanting to optimize your kernel build for your local CPU in use. Enabling CONFIG_X86_NATIVE_CPU is setting the "-march=native" compiler optimizations for the kernel build in an effort to ensure peak performance/optimizations for the local system. Here are some ben…
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Linux 6.16's New "X86_NATIVE_CPU" Option Enhances I/O & Some Graphics/Gaming Workloads

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Ubuntu To Keep Up-To-Date With Linux Kernel Versions During Development

Last year Canonical established a policy to always ship the latest Linux kernel version at Ubuntu release time which for the upcoming Ubuntu 25.10 will mean shipping with Linux v6.17. But during the Ubuntu development cycles they typically don't aggressively update to new interim versions tracking upstream, except that will now change to allow for better kernel te…
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Ubuntu To Keep Up-To-Date With Linux Kernel Versions During Development

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Runtime PM For The V3D Raspberry Pi Driver Will Finally Lower The GPU Clock When Idle

While the Broadcom V3D driver has been part of the mainline kernel for supporting the graphics found on recent Raspberry Pi boards, currently it doesn't support run-time power management. The lack of runtime PM has meant the GPU clock remains at full-speed even while idle...
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Runtime PM For The V3D Raspberry Pi Driver Will Finally Lower The GPU Clock When Idle

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Intel QAT Accelerators Being Demoted On Linux By FSCRYPT: Bug Prone & Slow

Intel's accelerator efforts in recent generations of Xeon processors have been challenging to say the least. From limited software support and configuration obstacles to some current-generation accelerators not being safe for VM use due to security issues to having to deal with higher latency and other nuances if wanting to achieve decent performance. One of the…
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Intel QAT Accelerators Being Demoted On Linux By FSCRYPT: Bug Prone & Slow

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Linux 6.17 Power Management Refines Async Suspend/Resume, Adds More Intel Hardware

Among the number of early pull requests submitted in advance for the Linux 6.17 merge window were all the power management updates as well as to related areas like ACPI and thermal control drivers...
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Linux 6.17 Power Management Refines Async Suspend/Resume, Adds More Intel Hardware

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Rockchip NPU Driver "Rocket" Expected By Linux 6.18, Mesa 25.3 Brings User-Space Code

The open-source, reverse-engineered Rockchip NPU driver "Rocket" developed by Tomeu Vizoso will soon be in the mainline kernel. The Rocket Gallium3D driver was also merged today for Mesa 25.3 in the user-space code for their AI accelerator support...
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Rockchip NPU Driver "Rocket" Expected By Linux 6.18, Mesa 25.3 Brings User-Space Code

The open-source, reverse-engineered Rockchip NPU driver 'Rocket' developed by Tomeu Vizoso will soon be in the mainline kernel
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Ubuntu 25.10 TPM-Backed Full Disk Encryption Will Be Considered Experimental

For the past two years Ubuntu developers have been talking about adding TPM-based full disk encryption to the installer for those wanting to leverage their system's Trusted Platform Module 2.0 capabilities to enhance security. It looks like for Ubuntu 25.10 this October that support will finally be in good shape...
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Ubuntu 25.10 TPM-Backed Full Disk Encryption Will Be Considered Experimental

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Intel Panther Lake Perf Integration Ready For Linux 6.17

The Linux support for Intel's next-generation Panther Lake SoCs appears to be largely set with Linux 6.16 ahead of the Core Ultra Series 3 laptops debuting in the coming months. There are though a few stragglers of Panther Lake support such as the performance events code in Linux 6.17 only now landing the perf integration...
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Intel Panther Lake Perf Integration Ready For Linux 6.17

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GNU Linux-libre 6.16 Fights Firmware In Nouveau, NOVA, Ath12k & Other Drivers

Following the Linux 6.16 kernel release from Sunday evening, GNU Linux-libre 6.16-gnu is now available for that kernel downstream that strips out driver/kernel code dependent upon non-free-software microcode/firmware, the ability to load proprietary kernel modules, and carving out other bits of the Linux kernel not meeting their stringent free software standards...
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GNU Linux-libre 6.16 Fights Firmware In Nouveau, NOVA, Ath12k & Other Drivers

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New Ubuntu Concept Snapdragon X Laptop ISOs Published - Your Mileage May Vary lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

New Ubuntu Concept Snapdragon X Laptop ISOs Published - Your Mileage May Vary

A few days back I wrote about Canonical releasing new Ubuntu 25.04 'Concept' ISOs for the Snapdragon X laptops with the new install images being re-based to the Linux 6.16 kernel and expanding the device support
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Linux 6.16 Released - Better Performance, NVIDIA Blackwell Open-Source & Intel APX

As anticipated the Linux 6.16 kernel was promoted to stable. Linux 6.16 now greets the world with various performance improvements, NVIDIA Hopper and Blackwell open-source GPU driver support in Nouveau, Intel Advanced Performance Extensions (APX) preparations, and many other exciting enhancements...
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Linux 6.16 Released - Better Performance, NVIDIA Blackwell Open-Source & Intel APX

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AMD Kernel Graphics Driver Exceeds 5.9 Million Lines In Linux 6.16

The modern AMD Kernel graphics driver consisting of AMDGPU, the AMDKFD compute code, and associated infrastructure continues to easily be the largest mainline open-source driver. With the Linux 6.16 kernel debuting as stable as soon as later today, the AMD kernel graphics driver cracks the 5.9 million line threshold. In comparison, the entire Linux kernel source tree c…
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AMD Kernel Graphics Driver Exceeds 5.9 Million Lines In Linux 6.16

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Linux 6.17 Introducing Support For The NVIDIA Tegra T264/Thor, New RISC-V SoCs

In advance of the Linux 6.17 merge window expected to open soon following the Linux 6.16 release, all of the SoC updates have been submitted to Linus Torvalds for this next kernel version...
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Linux 6.17 Introducing Support For The NVIDIA Tegra T264/Thor, New RISC-V SoCs

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New Ubuntu Concept Snapdragon X Laptop ISOs Published - Your Mileage May Vary

A few days back I wrote about Canonical releasing new Ubuntu 25.04 "Concept" ISOs for the Snapdragon X laptops with the new install images being re-based to the Linux 6.16 kernel and expanding the device support. But as I found out from my own testing, depending upon the laptop the support was still less than ideal. Since then there have been two more ISO releas…
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New Ubuntu Concept Snapdragon X Laptop ISOs Published - Your Mileage May Vary

A few days back I wrote about Canonical releasing new Ubuntu 25.04 'Concept' ISOs for the Snapdragon X laptops with the new install images being re-based to the Linux 6.16 kernel and expanding the device support
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Linux Will Finally Be Able To Reboot Apple M1/M2 Macs With The v6.17 Kernel lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

Linux Will Finally Be Able To Reboot Apple M1/M2 Macs With The v6.17 Kernel

While there have been various elements of the Apple M1 and M2 SoC support in the mainline Linux kernel along with support for various Macs, different features have been missing from the upstream kernel such as the Apple GPU kernel graphics driver as …
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Qualcomm Prepares IFPC Feature For Adreno X1-85 GPU With The Snapdragon X Laptops lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

Qualcomm Prepares IFPC Feature For Adreno X1-85 GPU With The Snapdragon X Laptops

This past week Qualcomm sent out a set of 17 patches for the MSM DRM kernel graphics driver for enabling support for the Inter Frame Power Collapse (IFPC) feature with the X1-85 GPU found in the current Snapdragon X laptops.
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