📰 Greg KH Forewarns Of "Rough" Linux 7.3 Kernel Cycle Due To Continued AI Churn
While Linux 7.3-rc1 only released this week and there are another roughly seven weeks to go until the official kernel release, Linux's second-in-command Greg Kroah-Hartman is already warning that it's likely to be another "rough" kernel cycle given the ongoing noise caused by AI/LLM with the increase in bug reports and kernel patches...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-Rough-Cycle
#kernel #linux
While Linux 7.3-rc1 only released this week and there are another roughly seven weeks to go until the official kernel release, Linux's second-in-command Greg Kroah-Hartman is already warning that it's likely to be another "rough" kernel cycle given the ongoing noise caused by AI/LLM with the increase in bug reports and kernel patches...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-Rough-Cycle
#kernel #linux
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Greg KH Forewarns Of "Rough" Linux 7.3 Kernel Cycle Due To Continued AI Churn
While Linux 7.3-rc1 only released this week and there are another roughly seven weeks to go until the official kernel release, Linux's second-in-command Greg Kroah-Hartman is already warning that it's likely to be another 'rough' kernel cycle given the ongoing…
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📰 AVX-512 xor_gen For Linux Updated & Looking Real Good For RAID Arrays
Being worked on the past few months for the Linux kernel has been an AVX-512 optimized version of xor_gen() that is used for generating and validating parity blocks such as with Linux's software RAID 5 and RAID 6 arrays. The latest iteration of AVX-512 xor_gen() was posted today and shows some impressive results on AMD Zen 5 hardware...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AVX-512-xor-gen-v5
#amd #kernel #linux
Being worked on the past few months for the Linux kernel has been an AVX-512 optimized version of xor_gen() that is used for generating and validating parity blocks such as with Linux's software RAID 5 and RAID 6 arrays. The latest iteration of AVX-512 xor_gen() was posted today and shows some impressive results on AMD Zen 5 hardware...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AVX-512-xor-gen-v5
#amd #kernel #linux
Phoronix
AVX-512 xor_gen For Linux Updated & Looking Real Good For RAID Arrays
Being worked on the past few months for the Linux kernel has been an AVX-512 optimized version of xor_gen() that is used for generating and validating parity blocks such as with Linux's software RAID 5 and RAID 6 arrays
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📰 Linux Kernel 7.1 Reaches End of Life, It’s Time to Upgrade to Linux Kernel 7.2
Linux kernel 7.1 reached end of life and all users are now recommended to upgrade their systems to the latest Linux 7.2 kernel series as soon as possible.
🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/linux-kernel-7-1-reaches-end-of-life-its-time-to-upgrade-to-linux-kernel-7-2
#kernel #linux
Linux kernel 7.1 reached end of life and all users are now recommended to upgrade their systems to the latest Linux 7.2 kernel series as soon as possible.
🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/linux-kernel-7-1-reaches-end-of-life-its-time-to-upgrade-to-linux-kernel-7-2
#kernel #linux
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📰 Grml 2026.09 Linux Distro Is Out with Linux Kernel 7.1, Based on Debian 14 Forky
Grml 2026.09 GNU/Linux distribution is now available for download based on Debian Testing/Forky and powered by Linux kernel 7.1. Here’s what’s new!
🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/grml-2026-09-linux-distro-is-out-with-linux-kernel-7-1-based-on-debian-14-forky
#debian #distro #gnu #kernel #linux
Grml 2026.09 GNU/Linux distribution is now available for download based on Debian Testing/Forky and powered by Linux kernel 7.1. Here’s what’s new!
🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/grml-2026-09-linux-distro-is-out-with-linux-kernel-7-1-based-on-debian-14-forky
#debian #distro #gnu #kernel #linux
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📰 Linux 7.4 To Improve Apple Silicon Audio Support & Its "Impossible" Power Management
The Apple Silicon audio driver code within the Linux kernel is preparing to make use of the recent shared GPIO infrastructure for allowing multiple drivers / kernel components to nicely share the same GPIO lines. This should help clean things up in the mainline kernel for the Apple Silicon audio support and with a cleaner architecture than the current downstream Asahi Linux code...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Apple-Audio-Shared-GPIO
#kernel #linux
The Apple Silicon audio driver code within the Linux kernel is preparing to make use of the recent shared GPIO infrastructure for allowing multiple drivers / kernel components to nicely share the same GPIO lines. This should help clean things up in the mainline kernel for the Apple Silicon audio support and with a cleaner architecture than the current downstream Asahi Linux code...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Apple-Audio-Shared-GPIO
#kernel #linux
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Linux 7.4 To Improve Apple Silicon Audio Support & Its "Impossible" Power Management
The Apple Silicon audio driver code within the Linux kernel is preparing to make use of the recent shared GPIO infrastructure for allowing multiple drivers / kernel components to nicely share the same GPIO lines
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📰 Linux Patches Posted For Initial Enablement Of The Apple A18 Pro + MacBook Neo
In addition to Linux developers focused on Apple Silicon being busy enabling functionality for the M3 and newer SoCs under the Linux kernel, there are also developers working on enabling the A18 Pro SoC used by the new, budget-friendly MacBook Neo laptop. Patches were posted this week for initial enablement of the A18 Pro and the MacBook Neo Device Tree... But even with these patches, the Linux support is still severely limited for now...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Apple-A18-Pro-MacBook-Neo-Patch
#kernel #linux
In addition to Linux developers focused on Apple Silicon being busy enabling functionality for the M3 and newer SoCs under the Linux kernel, there are also developers working on enabling the A18 Pro SoC used by the new, budget-friendly MacBook Neo laptop. Patches were posted this week for initial enablement of the A18 Pro and the MacBook Neo Device Tree... But even with these patches, the Linux support is still severely limited for now...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Apple-A18-Pro-MacBook-Neo-Patch
#kernel #linux
Phoronix
Linux Patches Posted For Initial Enablement Of The Apple A18 Pro + MacBook Neo
In addition to Linux developers focused on Apple Silicon being busy enabling functionality for the M3 and newer SoCs under the Linux kernel, there are also developers working on enabling the A18 Pro SoC used by the new, budget-friendly MacBook Neo laptop
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📰 Linux 7.3-rc2 Released Following Another Busy Week
After the Linux 7.3 merge window concluded last weekend, today we are up to the Linux 7.3-rc2 test kernel release in working toward the stable v7.3 kernel during the second half of October...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-rc2-Released
#kernel #linux
After the Linux 7.3 merge window concluded last weekend, today we are up to the Linux 7.3-rc2 test kernel release in working toward the stable v7.3 kernel during the second half of October...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-rc2-Released
#kernel #linux
Phoronix
Linux 7.3-rc2 Released Following Another Busy Week
After the Linux 7.3 merge window concluded last weekend, today we are up to the Linux 7.3-rc2 test kernel release in working toward the stable v7.3 kernel during the second half of October.
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📰 Nouveau Preparations For HDMI 2.1 DSC, AMD HDMI FreeSync Fixes For Linux 7.4
Last week's set of DRM-Misc-Next changes submitted to DRM-Next with targeting the upcoming Linux 7.4 kernel cycle features HDMI 2.1 related work for both the AMDGPU kernel driver as well as the Nouveau open-source NVIDIA driver...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.4-DRM-Misc-Next-1
#amd #kernel #linux #opensource
Last week's set of DRM-Misc-Next changes submitted to DRM-Next with targeting the upcoming Linux 7.4 kernel cycle features HDMI 2.1 related work for both the AMDGPU kernel driver as well as the Nouveau open-source NVIDIA driver...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.4-DRM-Misc-Next-1
#amd #kernel #linux #opensource
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Nouveau Preparations For HDMI 2.1 DSC, AMD HDMI FreeSync Fixes For Linux 7.4
Last week's set of DRM-Misc-Next changes submitted to DRM-Next with targeting the upcoming Linux 7.4 kernel cycle features HDMI 2.1 related work for both the AMDGPU kernel driver as well as the Nouveau open-source NVIDIA driver.
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📰 Linux Preps For New AMD Zen 6 BTB CTX Isolation Security Feature
A recently posted Linux kernel patch has revealed a new security improvement with Zen 6 processors...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Preps-AMD-BTB-CTX
#amd #kernel #linux
A recently posted Linux kernel patch has revealed a new security improvement with Zen 6 processors...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Preps-AMD-BTB-CTX
#amd #kernel #linux
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Linux Preps For New AMD Zen 6 BTB CTX Isolation Security Feature
A recently posted Linux kernel patch has revealed a new security improvement with Zen 6 processors.
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📰 LLVM Merges Support For AMD's RMPCHKD, RMPREAD & RMPOPT Instructions
With the Linux kernel still working toward landing support for AMD's RMPOPT optimization for helping to reduce overhead on SEV-SNP enabled servers, the LLVM/Clang compiler has in turn prepped for the milestone by landing support for the RMPOPT, RMPREAD, and RMPCHKD instructions for Zen 5 and newer...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/LLVM-Zen5-Zen6-RMPOPT
#amd #kernel #linux
With the Linux kernel still working toward landing support for AMD's RMPOPT optimization for helping to reduce overhead on SEV-SNP enabled servers, the LLVM/Clang compiler has in turn prepped for the milestone by landing support for the RMPOPT, RMPREAD, and RMPCHKD instructions for Zen 5 and newer...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/LLVM-Zen5-Zen6-RMPOPT
#amd #kernel #linux
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LLVM Merges Support For AMD's RMPCHKD, RMPREAD & RMPOPT Instructions
With the Linux kernel still working toward landing support for AMD's RMPOPT optimization for helping to reduce overhead on SEV-SNP enabled servers, the LLVM/Clang compiler has in turn prepped for the milestone by landing support for the RMPOPT, RMPREAD, and…
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📰 The Linux Kernel Planning To Remove Around ~55k Lines Of Old ARM Platform Code
For the current Linux 7.3 kernel many older 32-bit ARM platforms are deprecated and in turn orphaning hundreds of drivers only relevant to those out-of-date ARM platforms. The removal of that now deprecated code is planned for the next kernel cycle or two...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Dropping-Old-ARM-Ahead
#arm #kernel #linux
For the current Linux 7.3 kernel many older 32-bit ARM platforms are deprecated and in turn orphaning hundreds of drivers only relevant to those out-of-date ARM platforms. The removal of that now deprecated code is planned for the next kernel cycle or two...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Dropping-Old-ARM-Ahead
#arm #kernel #linux
Phoronix
The Linux Kernel Planning To Remove Around ~55k Lines Of Old ARM Platform Code
For the current Linux 7.3 kernel many older 32-bit ARM platforms are deprecated and in turn orphaning hundreds of drivers only relevant to those out-of-date ARM platforms
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📰 Building GPU Drivers in Rust: Tyr at RustConf 2026
Join us in Montreal for the 10th edition of RustConf! Catch our talk on Tyr, the new Rust kernel driver for Arm Mali GPUs.
🔗 Source: https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/building-gpu-drivers-in-rust-tyr-at-rustconf-2026.html
#arm #kernel #rust
Join us in Montreal for the 10th edition of RustConf! Catch our talk on Tyr, the new Rust kernel driver for Arm Mali GPUs.
🔗 Source: https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/building-gpu-drivers-in-rust-tyr-at-rustconf-2026.html
#arm #kernel #rust
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Building GPU Drivers in Rust: Tyr at RustConf 2026
Join us this Thursday to learn about Tyr, a GPU drvier for the kernel!
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