For those that happen to have ASUS Transformer devices as the roughly decade old convertible/hybrid 2-in-1 laptop/tablet computers, the Linux 7.5 kernel in 2027 is improving support for these aging …
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Linux developers are preparing to make Intel’s ancient MultiMedia eXtensions irrelevant, with the last MMX code now set to be removed from the kernel.
For those that happen to have ASUS Transformer devices as the roughly decade old convertible/hybrid 2-in-1 laptop/tablet computers, the Linux 7.5 kernel in 2027 is improving support for these aging …
PhoronixENThe Linux kernel already has network drivers for the AMD Pensando networking hardware while coming for Linux 7.5 is an Ionic HWMON driver to support hardware monitoring with temperature, voltage …
PhoronixENIntel's intriguing Crescent Island Xe3P-based AI accelerator hardware now known as the Intel GPU D Series continues seeing a lot of Linux kernel driver activity.
PhoronixENThe Linux kernel's ChaCha symmetric stream cipher code has long had an AVX-512 optimized code path but it was catering to the early generations of Intel CPUs with AVX-512 (Skylake) that suffered …
PhoronixENMerged for Linux 6.13 back in 2024 was multigrain timestamp support for being able to switch between coarse and fine-grained change/modification time reporting on a per-file basis.
PhoronixENEven before the Linux v7.4 merge window was over, there were already two pull requests of drm-misc-next material targeting for what will be Linux 7.5.
PhoronixENSince last week drm-misc-next pull requests have already been sent out to DRM-Next to begin staging new feature code for what's intended for the Linux 7.5 kernel cycle kicking off at the end of the …
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Linux kernel memory-management code reviewer steps down due to influx of AI slop patches — volume of submissions coupled with low manpower forces the step back
Linus Torvalds thinks that AI fixes drove most of the progress in Linux kernel 7.4rc2 — BPF saw more AI-written fixes than bug reports, possibly indicating a tidal shift
Kmorph aims to provide reboot-less kernel crash recovery for Linux systems and can yield as little as ~2 second downtime for recovering the Nginx web server or other important services in the case …
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