udev-hid-bpf To Help Enable HID-BPF Use Rather Than Kernel Drivers To Fix HID Hardware

Right now for buggy HID hardware or other input devices not exactly aligning to specs or having known hardware workarounds required, a new Linux kernel driver tends to be needed or at least quirks to be added to existing kernel driver code. There's no shortage of wonky HID hardware/drivers out there to deal with such odd cases. Due to the lengthy kernel cycles and o…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/udev-hid-bpf

Fedora Linux 40 Available For Download As A Wonderful Upgrade

It's Fedora 40 release day! Fedora 40 is now available for download from mirrors for this leading Linux distribution...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-40-Available

Intel Has Many Improvements For The Xe Graphics Driver In Linux 6.10

Intel today sent out more than one hundred new feature patches to DRM-Next of new "Xe" kernel graphics driver material they have readied for the upcoming Linux 6.10 kernel merge window...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.10-Intel-Xe-DRM-Patches

QEMU 9.0 Released WIth True Multi-Queue Support For VirtIO Block Driver

QEMU 9.0 is out tonight as the latest feature release for this prominent component to the open-source Linux virtualization stack...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/QEMU-9.0-Released

RadeonSI Squeezes "Many Improvements Around The Whole Driver" Into Mesa 24.1

Down to literally minutes before the Mesa 24.1 codebase was branched for making up this quarter's Mesa OpenGL/Vulkan driver to then be tested and stabilized with a stable release around mid-May, a number of AMD RadeonSI Gallium3D driver patches were merged...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/RadeonSI-Whole-Improvements

Etnaviv NPU Optimizations Make It Into Mesa 24.1

In addition to many RadeonSI driver optimizations that were merged just prior to yesterday's code branching and Mesa 24.1-rc1 release, a number of Etnaviv driver improvements were also merged for benefiting that recent Vivante NPU IP open-source driver work...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Etnaviv-NPU-Optimize-Mesa-24.1

NVIDIA Developer Opens Feature Pull Request For Open-Source NVK Driver

If your interest didn't pique enough when the former Nouveau lead developer joined NVIDIA and sent out a big patch series for this originally-reverse-engineered, open-source NVIDIA kernel driver, here's another plot twist: another NVIDIA engineer opening a merge request adding to the Mesa NVK Vulkan driver...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-NVK-Conservative

Systemd 256-rc1 Brings A Huge Number Of New Features

Systemd 256-rc1 is available this evening and it comes with many new features and improvements to existing features. It's a big one...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/systemd-256-rc1

Servo Web Engine Now Passing Acid2 Layout Engine Test

The Servo web engine developers have enjoyed a busy April with a number of new features added to this Rust creation...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Servo-Passing-Acid2

GCC 14 Adds "GFX90C" For OpenMP Offloading To APUs With GFX9/Vega Graphics

As the last feature patch prior to the GCC 14 compiler code being branched today and GCC 15 opening up on the mainline codebase, AMD GFX90C support was merged for enabling GPU OpenMP device offloading to the numerous AMD SoCs/APUs with the GFX9/Vega graphics...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GCC-14-Adds-GFX90C-GPU

KDE Fixes Adaptive-Sync Issues & Less Glitches During GPU Resets

KDE developer Nate Graham is back from the latest KDE sprint in Germany and out with his new weekly status report to highlight all of the interesting KDE changes that landed this week...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Less-Bugs-Adaptive-Sync