Intel Lunar Lake On Linux Can Roughly Match Windows 11 Xe2 Graphics - When Not Stuck At 400MHz

Earlier this month I looked at the AMD RDNA 3.5 graphics with Strix Point between Windows 11 and Ubuntu 25.04 Linux. The testing showed the AMD RDNA 3.5 graphics on the open-source Linux driver up to around 96% the performance of Radeon Software on Windows. The most frequent question that came up from that most recent round of benchmark…
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Kexec HandOver "KHO" Looks Like It Might Be Ready For The Linux 6.16 Kernel

Being worked on for a while now by engineers from Amazon, Microsoft, and Google has been Kexec HandOver "KHO" as a means of allowing some kernel state to be retained when Kexec'ing into a new kernel such as for maintenance/security updates. The KHO patches in recent days were queued up into Andrew Morton's "MM" staging area leading to hope that this work is read…
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Intel Begins Linux Preparations For Bartlett Lake

The first Linux patch was posted today by an Intel engineer that explicitly mentions "Bartlett Lake" in opening the door for any other Linux kernel patches explicitly catering to Bartlett Lake processors...
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AMD RDNA4 Paired Context Reg Feature Merged For RADV To Potentially Help Performance

After various commits to Mesa 25.1 in recent days in preparing for a new paired context registers feature of AMD RDNA4 (GFX12 graphics), the feature today is wired up for the Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" with the upcoming Mesa 25.1 release. This feature has the possibility of helping performance for new AMD RDNA4 hardware but the performance benefits a…
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Linux PCACHE Proposed For Persistent Memory Cache For Block Devices

Sent out as a request for comments today is a patch series implementing PCACHE, a persistent memory cache for block devices. PCACHE was born out of code originally designed for the CXL block device driver but ultimately is useful outside the context of Compute Express Link as well...
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Intel TDX Support For KVM Finally Expected To Debut In Mainline Linux 6.16 lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

Amarok 3.3 Beta Released For Qt6-Powered KDE Music Player

Last year work on KDE's Amarok music player was resurrected after a six year development hiatus. With the return to Amarok development it was ported to Qt6 and KDE Frameworks 5. At the end of last year Amarok 3.2 released with initial Qt6 and KDE Frameworks 6 support while retaining Qt5/KF5 support. Now out today is the Amarok 3.3 beta to drop that prior-generation support...
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Intel TDX Support For KVM Finally Expected To Debut In Mainline Linux 6.16

While the Linux 6.15 merge window ended just one week ago and there is a month and a half until it will debut as stable, a notable feature has already been queued into a "next" branch for the follow-on Linux 6.16 cycle. For those making use of modern Intel Xeon processors with virtualization, the Trust Domain Extensions (TDX) support for KVM virtualization looks…
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Pinta 3.0 Image Editing Program Released With Port To GTK4

One month after GIMP 3.0 was finally released for this popular image editor ported to GTK3 and many other changes, Pinta 3.0 has now been released. Pinta as a reminder is the open-source image editing program inspired by Paint.NET. With the Pinta 3.0 release the image editor has been ported to GTK4 and libadwaita...
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Qualcomm USB Audio Offloading Poised For Linux 6.6 After Going Through 38 Revisions

Originally posted back in 2022 were Linux kernel patches for Qualcomm USB audio offloading for Qualcomm SoCs with an audio DSP that can take responsibility for issuing transfers to the USB host controller to free up system resources. After going through 38 rounds of code review the past 2+ years, it looks like Linux 6.16 will finally mainline this Qu…
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Banana Pi Teases BPI-CM6 Module Featuring SpacemiT K1 RISC-V Processor lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

Zephyr RTOS 4.1 Released with Performance Boosts, IAR and Rust Support, and Broader Board Compatibility lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

LibreOffice 25.8 Landing Many Patches For Improving Qt Toolkit Integration lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

SDL Merges Wayland Multi-Seat Support

An interesting merge this weekend to the Simple DirectMedia Library (SDL) that is widely-used by cross-platform games and other applications for software/hardware abstractions is Wayland multi-seat support. This addition also comes with a developer working on Valve's Linux graphics efforts...
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Sony Introduces AS-DT1, Described as the World's Smallest and Lightest Precision LiDAR Sensor lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…