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Intel Xe Enabling SR-IOV PF By Default, Marking Driver As "Broken" For Non-4K Kernels

On top of all the Linux 6.17 kernel graphics driver feature changes that landed last week like promoting Panther Lake's Xe3 graphics to on-by-default, SR-IOV for Battlemage GPUs, multi-GPU preparations, Wildcat Lake enablement work, and more, some addi...

2025-08-06 10:25

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AlmaLinux Introduces Native NVIDIA Support Using Open-Source Kernel Driver

The AlmaLinux project announced today that there is now "native" NVIDIA graphics driver support for AlmaLinux 10 and AlmaLinux 9 using NVIDIA's open-source kernel modules that are now conveniently packaged in an AlmaLinux repository for easy usage comp...

2025-08-06 09:59

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Linux 6.17 Fixes A Performance Bottleneck In The Futex Code

Merged last week for Linux 6.17 were the FUTEX locking changes that include addressing an observed performance bottleneck...

2025-08-06 08:50

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Btrfs Sees Urgent Fix Following Recent Reports Of Log Tree Corruption

On Linux 6.15.3+ there have been increased reports of log tree corruption being hit by users of the Btrfs file-system. Fortunately, a fix has now been submitted for Linux 6.17 Git and then for back-porting to the recent stable kernel versions...

2025-08-06 08:11

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Valve's ACO Compiler Used By AMD Drivers Optimize Scheduling Heuristic For Newer GPUs

Merged today for Mesa 25.3-devel to benefit the RADV Vulkan and RadeonSI Gallium3D AMD drivers are improved scheduling heuristics for the ACO compiler back-end developed by Valve...

2025-08-06 06:30

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Linux 6.17 Optimizes khugepaged For ARM64 With Huge "16x" Impact For One Code Path

Andrew Morton this week sent in some additional memory management "MM" changes for the Linux 6.17 to complement last week's many MM patches from new optimizations to more DAMON features. Most notable with this secondary set of patches are khugepaged op...

2025-08-06 06:20

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GTK3 Version Of gconfig Merged For Linux 6.17

All of the Kbuild changes were merged today for the Linux 6.17 kernel. Most notable with the Kbuild changes is the gconfig graphical utility for configuring the Linux kernel configuration now being ported from GTK2 to GTK3...

2025-08-06 05:59

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systemd 258-rc2 Released In Preparing For H2'2025 Linux Distributions

Released two weeks ago was systemd 258-rc1 with many changes throughout its massive codebase. Out today is a second release candidate of the forthcoming systemd 258...

2025-08-05 21:00

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Rust Making Progress On Its 2025 Project Goals

The Rust project put out a status update concerning its 2025 project goals to summarize what has been accomplished during the first half of the year...

2025-08-05 20:35

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PCI Express 8.0 Aims For 256 GT/s In 2028

The PCI-SIG announced today the PCI Express 8.0 specification due out in 2028 will double the data of the PCI Express 7.0 specification, taking it to 256 GT/s...

2025-08-05 17:01

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Debian 13 Showing 13% Performance Improvement Over Debian 12 On AMD EPYC

If all goes according to plan Debian 13.0 will be released this weekend. Already in its effectively final state aside from any last minute fixes, I've begun running Debian 13 testing builds on various systems in the lab to great success. With two years...

2025-08-05 12:00

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exFAT Fixes Significant Random Write Performance Regression With Linux 6.17

Following yesterday's F2FS pull request, the exFAT file-system updates were sent out and since merged for the ongoing Linux 6.17 kernel merge window...

2025-08-05 11:00

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Intel Upstreams libsycl SYCL Runtime Library Into LLVM

For several years now Intel has been working on SYCL support within LLVM and various related efforts like the LLVM SPIR-V back-end as part of their oneAPI ambitions and Data Parallel C++ across their spectrum of hardware. The latest hitting upstream LL...

2025-08-05 08:55

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Raja Koduri Announces New GPU Software & IP Startup - OXPython For CUDA AI On Non-NVIDIA GPUs

Oxmiq Labs exited stealth mode today as a new startup led by Raja Koduri of AMD / Apple / Intel fame to focus on GPU software and licenseable graphics IP. Oxmiq Labs is a new GPU software and IP startup that has been in development for two years alread...

2025-08-05 08:33

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SDL Library Lands Precision Scrolling For X.Org Usage

For Linux gamers relying on the X.Org Server, the SDL3 library that is widely-used by cross-platform games has landed support for precision/pixel scrolling...

2025-08-05 06:52

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FFmpeg Delivers Very Nice Performance Gains For Bwdif Deinterlacing With AVX-512

FFmpeg developers are known for delivering some really wild performance gains from hand-optimized Assembly code especially around Intel/AMD AVX-512 optimizations for various features of this widely-used open-source multimedia library. Merged this week ...

2025-08-05 06:38

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Linux 6.17 Introduces hash_pointers= Boot Parameter

Linus Torvalds yesterday merged a patch from SUSE's Petr Mladek introducing a new boot parameter option for the kernel to provide greater control over the behavior of hashing pointer values...

2025-08-05 06:28

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Intel Updates Legacy Compute Driver To Benefit Broadwell Through Ice Lake iGPUs

Last year Intel's open-source Compute Runtime stack for OpenCL and oneAPI Level Zero support discontinued its support for Broadwell through Ice Lake integrated graphics to focus strictly on Tigerlake with Intel "Gen12" graphics and newer. Today though ...

2025-08-05 06:12

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openSUSE Leap 16.0 Enters RC Phase With New Installer, Xfce On Wayland Option

Working toward the stable openSUSE Leap 16.0 release in late 2025, the release candidate period has begun for this Linux distribution aligned with SUSE Linux Enterprise 16 sources...

2025-08-04 21:31

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F2FS Sees New Improvements Merged For Linux 6.17 While Bcachefs Languishes

Sent out today for the Linux 6.17 merge window and already merged hours later were the Flash-Friendly File-System (F2FS) feature updates...

2025-08-04 20:21

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