📰 New FUTEX Syscalls Back To Being Worked On For Helping Valve's ARM64 Gaming Ambitions
Going back to last year the Igalia open-source consulting firm has been working on enhancing the Linux kernel to help Steam Play gaming on ARM64 and ensuring the FEX emulator is operating efficiently for x86/x86_64 games running on the likes of the Steam Frame. After other kernel work in recent months, there's finally an updated round of the FUTEX get_robust_list2 and set_robust_list2 system call patches...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/FUTEX-Robust-List2-Syscalls
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https://phoronix.com/news/FUTEX-Robust-List2-Syscalls
Going back to last year the Igalia open-source consulting firm has been working on enhancing the Linux kernel to help Steam Play gaming on ARM64 and ensuring the FEX emulator is operating efficiently for x86/x86_64 games running on the likes of the Steam Frame. After other kernel work in recent months, there's finally an updated round of the FUTEX get_robust_list2 and set_robust_list2 system call patches...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/FUTEX-Robust-List2-Syscalls
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https://phoronix.com/news/FUTEX-Robust-List2-Syscalls
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New FUTEX Syscalls Back To Being Worked On For Helping Valve's ARM64 Gaming Ambitions
Going back to last year the Igalia open-source consulting firm has been working on enhancing the Linux kernel to help Steam Play gaming on ARM64 and ensuring the FEX emulator is operating efficiently for x86/x86_64 games running on the likes of the Steam…
📰 AMDXDNA Linux Driver Being Enhanced For Current NPU3 Hardware
The AMDXDNA open-source Linux kernel accelerator driver is seeing a fair amount of work for better supporting current-generation NPU3 neural processing units. The AMD NPU3 is what's found in current AMD Ryzen AI 300 / Ryzen AI 300 PRO series SoCs...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDXDNA-NPU3-Enhancements
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https://phoronix.com/news/AMDXDNA-NPU3-Enhancements
The AMDXDNA open-source Linux kernel accelerator driver is seeing a fair amount of work for better supporting current-generation NPU3 neural processing units. The AMD NPU3 is what's found in current AMD Ryzen AI 300 / Ryzen AI 300 PRO series SoCs...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDXDNA-NPU3-Enhancements
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AMDXDNA Linux Driver Being Enhanced For Current NPU3 Hardware
The AMDXDNA open-source Linux kernel accelerator driver is seeing a fair amount of work for better supporting current-generation NPU3 neural processing units
📰 Improved GPU Reset Coming For Raspberry Pi Boards With Linux 7.4
In addition to this week's DRM-Misc-Next pull request introducing some new HDMI 2.0 helpers for the DRM drivers, the pull request also introduced improved GPU reset support for the Broadcom V3D GPU with the VC4 kernel driver...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.4-Better-RPI-GPU-Reset
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https://phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.4-Better-RPI-GPU-Reset
In addition to this week's DRM-Misc-Next pull request introducing some new HDMI 2.0 helpers for the DRM drivers, the pull request also introduced improved GPU reset support for the Broadcom V3D GPU with the VC4 kernel driver...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.4-Better-RPI-GPU-Reset
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Improved GPU Reset Coming For Raspberry Pi Boards With Linux 7.4
In addition to this week's DRM-Misc-Next pull request introducing some new HDMI 2.0 helpers for the DRM drivers, the pull request also introduced improved GPU reset support for the Broadcom V3D GPU with the VC4 kernel driver.
📰 Linux Kernel's LZ4 Compression Code Being Resynced For Better Performance & Cleanliness
In addition to the Linux kernel's Zstd compression code being improved, the LZ4 compression code within the kernel tree is also seeing a separate set of enhancements...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-LZ4-Clean-Resync
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https://phoronix.com/news/Linux-LZ4-Clean-Resync
In addition to the Linux kernel's Zstd compression code being improved, the LZ4 compression code within the kernel tree is also seeing a separate set of enhancements...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-LZ4-Clean-Resync
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Linux Kernel's LZ4 Compression Code Being Resynced For Better Performance & Cleanliness
In addition to the Linux kernel's Zstd compression code being improved, the LZ4 compression code within the kernel tree is also seeing a separate set of enhancements.
📰 Linux 7.3-rc5 Released: "Another Week, Another Large RC"
In working toward the stable Linux 7.3 kernel release hopefully on 18 October, out today is Linux 7.3-rc5 as the newest weekly test candidate...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-rc5-Released
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https://phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-rc5-Released
In working toward the stable Linux 7.3 kernel release hopefully on 18 October, out today is Linux 7.3-rc5 as the newest weekly test candidate...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-rc5-Released
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Linux 7.3-rc5 Released: "Another Week, Another Large RC"
In working toward the stable Linux 7.3 kernel release hopefully on 18 October, out today is Linux 7.3-rc5 as the newest weekly test candidate.
📰 Large Folios Able To Deliver Big Performance Gains For FUSE With Linux 7.4
Following the FUSE improvements in Linux 7.3 for file-systems in user-space, it looks like the upcoming Linux 7.4 kernel will be ready to enable the large folios feature...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/FUSE-Large-Folios
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https://phoronix.com/news/FUSE-Large-Folios
Following the FUSE improvements in Linux 7.3 for file-systems in user-space, it looks like the upcoming Linux 7.4 kernel will be ready to enable the large folios feature...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/FUSE-Large-Folios
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https://phoronix.com/news/FUSE-Large-Folios
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Large Folios Able To Deliver Big Performance Gains For FUSE With Linux 7.4
Following the FUSE improvements in Linux 7.3 for file-systems in user-space, it looks like the upcoming Linux 7.4 kernel will be ready to enable the large folios feature.
📰 BPF-Based Display Panel Drivers Being Explored For Linux
BPF-based HID drivers have helped to deliver quirks/fixes for different HID devices more quickly than being bound by the conventional kernel cycle. Loading these eBPF programs from user-space have shown a lot of potential for innovating and iterating more quickly with BPF drivers for different subsystems. The latest area now seeing the BPF treatment are display panel drivers...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-BPF-Panel-Drivers
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https://phoronix.com/news/Linux-BPF-Panel-Drivers
BPF-based HID drivers have helped to deliver quirks/fixes for different HID devices more quickly than being bound by the conventional kernel cycle. Loading these eBPF programs from user-space have shown a lot of potential for innovating and iterating more quickly with BPF drivers for different subsystems. The latest area now seeing the BPF treatment are display panel drivers...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-BPF-Panel-Drivers
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https://phoronix.com/news/Linux-BPF-Panel-Drivers
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BPF-Based Display Panel Drivers Being Explored For Linux
BPF-based HID drivers have helped to deliver quirks/fixes for different HID devices more quickly than being bound by the conventional kernel cycle
📰 New Spectre-v2 BTR Attack Leaks Linux Memory Despite Existing Defenses
A group of academics from VUSec and Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna have disclosed details of a new Spectre CPU vulnerability variant that affects Just-In-Time (JIT) engines present in web browsers, language runtimes, and the operating system kernel, across multiple CPU vendors.The new Spectre-v2 variant has been codenamed Branch Target Reuse (BTR)."The key insight is that, while modern CPUs.
🔗 Source: https://thehackernews.com/2026/09/new-spectre-v2-btr-attack-leaks-linux.html
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A group of academics from VUSec and Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna have disclosed details of a new Spectre CPU vulnerability variant that affects Just-In-Time (JIT) engines present in web browsers, language runtimes, and the operating system kernel, across multiple CPU vendors.The new Spectre-v2 variant has been codenamed Branch Target Reuse (BTR)."The key insight is that, while modern CPUs.
🔗 Source: https://thehackernews.com/2026/09/new-spectre-v2-btr-attack-leaks-linux.html
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📰 Tails 7.14 Anonymous OS Updates Tor Browser, Tor Client, and Linux Kernel
The privacy-focused Tails 7.14 release refreshes its core components with Tor Browser 15.0.24, Tor 0.4.9.13, and Linux 6.12.111.
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https://linuxiac.com/tails-7-14-anonymous-os-updates-tor-browser-tor-client-and-linux-kernel
The privacy-focused Tails 7.14 release refreshes its core components with Tor Browser 15.0.24, Tor 0.4.9.13, and Linux 6.12.111.
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https://linuxiac.com/tails-7-14-anonymous-os-updates-tor-browser-tor-client-and-linux-kernel
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Tails 7.14 Anonymous OS Updates Tor Browser, Tor Client, and Linux Kernel
The privacy-focused Tails 7.14 release refreshes its core components with Tor Browser 15.0.24, Tor 0.4.9.13, and Linux 6.12.111.
📰 Proposal To Set ARM64 Kernel Stack Size At Boot Time To Reduce Memory Consumption
A proposal was posted this week to the Linux kernel mailing list by a Google engineer to make it easier for ARM64 Linux to adjust the kernel stack size. The motivation for doing so to configure the kernel stack size during boot time is on reducing system memory consumption...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/ARM64-Linux-Stack-Size-Boot
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https://phoronix.com/news/ARM64-Linux-Stack-Size-Boot
A proposal was posted this week to the Linux kernel mailing list by a Google engineer to make it easier for ARM64 Linux to adjust the kernel stack size. The motivation for doing so to configure the kernel stack size during boot time is on reducing system memory consumption...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/ARM64-Linux-Stack-Size-Boot
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Proposal To Set ARM64 Kernel Stack Size At Boot Time To Reduce Memory Consumption
A proposal was posted this week to the Linux kernel mailing list by a Google engineer to make it easier for ARM64 Linux to adjust the kernel stack size
📰 New Linux Patches Trying To Mainline Renesas SH7305 CPU Support
The Renesas SH7305 isn't a new processor and is well known for powering various Casio graphing calculators over the past decde and a half. But finally the mainline Linux kernel may end up seeing support for this 32-bit SH-4a RISC core...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Renesas-SH7305-Linux-Patches
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https://phoronix.com/news/Renesas-SH7305-Linux-Patches
The Renesas SH7305 isn't a new processor and is well known for powering various Casio graphing calculators over the past decde and a half. But finally the mainline Linux kernel may end up seeing support for this 32-bit SH-4a RISC core...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Renesas-SH7305-Linux-Patches
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https://phoronix.com/news/Renesas-SH7305-Linux-Patches
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New Linux Patches Trying To Mainline Renesas SH7305 CPU Support
The Renesas SH7305 isn't a new processor and is well known for powering various Casio graphing calculators over the past decde and a half
📰 Parrot OS 7.4 Released with AnonSurf 6.0, Updated Raspberry Pi Images
Parrot OS 7.4 security-oriented distribution is now available for download with Linux kernel 7.1, updated tools, optimized builds, updated Raspberry Pi and ARM images, and other changes.
🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/parrot-os-7-4-released-with-anonsurf-6-0-updated-raspberry-pi-images
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Parrot OS 7.4 security-oriented distribution is now available for download with Linux kernel 7.1, updated tools, optimized builds, updated Raspberry Pi and ARM images, and other changes.
🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/parrot-os-7-4-released-with-anonsurf-6-0-updated-raspberry-pi-images
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📰 The Amazing Work By Valve's Timur Kristóf On Improving Old AMD GPUs On Linux
Over the past year Timur Kristóf of Valve's Linux graphics driver team has made multiple very nice improvements to the AMDGPU kernel driver for enhancing support for old (GCN 1.0/1.1 era from a decade ago) graphics cards so that they can better handle Linux gaming and other tasks. This week in Toronto, Kristóf presented on this AMDGPU work that he initially began as a kernel driver development exercise after initially spending years in...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/XDC-2026-Valve-Timur-AMDGPU
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https://phoronix.com/news/XDC-2026-Valve-Timur-AMDGPU
Over the past year Timur Kristóf of Valve's Linux graphics driver team has made multiple very nice improvements to the AMDGPU kernel driver for enhancing support for old (GCN 1.0/1.1 era from a decade ago) graphics cards so that they can better handle Linux gaming and other tasks. This week in Toronto, Kristóf presented on this AMDGPU work that he initially began as a kernel driver development exercise after initially spending years in...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/XDC-2026-Valve-Timur-AMDGPU
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https://phoronix.com/news/XDC-2026-Valve-Timur-AMDGPU
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The Amazing Work By Valve's Timur Kristóf On Improving Old AMD GPUs On Linux
Over the past year Timur Kristóf of Valve's Linux graphics driver team has made multiple very nice improvements to the AMDGPU kernel driver for enhancing support for old (GCN 1.0/1.1 era from a decade ago) graphics cards so that they can better handle Linux…