RKVDEC2 Driver Posted For Accelerated Video Decoding On Newer Rockchip SoCs

For years there has been the RKVDEC Linux media driver to provide accelerated video decoding on Rockchip SoCs. Being worked on now is RKVDEC2 for providing video decoding on the newer Rockchip SoCs...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/RKVDEC2-Rockchip-Video-Decode

VMware Hypercall API To Likely Land In Linux 6.11

For months Broadcom has been working on the VMware Hypercall API for the Linux kernel. This "vmware_hyperscall" is a new family of functions for use by the VMware guest code and virtual device drivers in an architecture-independent manner...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/VMware-Hypercall-API-Linux-6.11

IceWM 3.6 Released With A Few New Features & Fixes

IceWM 3.6 is out today as the newest version of this lightweight X11 window manager...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/IceWM-3.6-Released

NumPy 2.0 Brings Faster Performance Thanks To Intel's x86-simd-sort & Google's Highway

NumPy 2.0 was released on Sunday that's been in the making for the past year and their first major release since 2006. While it comes with API/ABI breakage, NumPy 2.0 delivers new features and performance improvements...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/NumPy-2.0-Released

Fedora 41 Looks To Offer A KDE Plasma Mobile Spin

Two new change proposals have been filed for enhancing the KDE offerings with this autumn's Fedora 41 release...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-41-KDE-Mobile-Proposal

X.Org Testing Ground Toolkit v0.0.2 Adds NetBSD & FreeBSD Support

Last week marked the inaugural release of the X.Org Testing Ground Toolkit to make it easier to compile the X.Org Server. That v0.0.1 release was limited to supporting Debian/Apt-based Linux distributions while now this helper toolkit has been extended to support FreeBSD and NetBSD too...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/X.Org-Testing-Ground-0.0.2

Fedora 41 To Replace Power-Profiles-Daemon With "Tuned"

The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee has approved of Fedora 41 switching from power-profiles-daemon to "Tuned" as the default power profile management daemon on Fedora Workstation as well as the KDE Plasma and Budgie desktop spins...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-41-Goes-Tuned-PPD

Zlib-ng 2.2 Speeds Up Compression By ~12% On x86_64 CPUs

The first release candidate of Zlib-ng 2.2 for this drop-in replacement to the Zlib data compression library is now available for testing. Zlib-ng continues to ship new performance optimizations and other tuning for providing faster Zlib performance on modern processors...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/zlib-2.2-RC1

GNOME Merges Wayland DRM Lease Protocol For Better VR Handling

Merged today into GNOME's Mutter compositor is support for the Wayland DRM lease protocol to allow for nice virtual reality (VR) headset support for GNOME on Wayland...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Wayland-DRM-Lease

Raspberry Pi 5 Kernel Graphics Driver Support Will Hopefully Be Upstreamed Soon

While the Raspberry Pi 5 debuted last September, the mainline Linux kernel support for this popular single board computer continues to lag behind the state of Raspberry Pi's downstream kernel. SUSE has been working to upstream various Raspberry Pi 5 driver support while now Raspberry Pi engineers have also begun the trek toward upstreaming their kernel g…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Raspberry-Pi-5-Kernel-DRM-Soon

Intel Linux NPU Driver v1.5 Released - Now Validated On Arrow Lake & Lunar Lake

Intel on Wednesday released version 1.5 of their Linux NPU driver, their user-space driver component for Linux systems in enabling the neural processing unit found with Core Ultra "Meteor Lake" processors and newer. This goes along with their upstream IVPU kernel accelerator driver for allowing a full open-source solution for AI workloads with the likes of Op…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Linux-NPU-Driver-1.5

Cloud Hypervisor 40 Released With Better Boot Time Performance

Cloud Hypervisor 40.0 is out today for this open-source Rust-written VMM that started off as an Intel software project and evolved into a multi-vendor initiative with backing from the likes of Microsoft, Arm, AMD, and others for a cloud-focused, security-critical virtualization hypervisor...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Cloud-Hypervisor-40-Released

AMD AI Compiler Engineer Lands A Generic MLIR To SPIR-V Pass In LLVM 19

Merged on Friday to LLVM 19 Git is a generic MLIR to SPIR-V pass for lowering the Multi-Level Intermediate Representation down into SPIR-V as the intermediate representation consumed by OpenGL / OpenCL / Vulkan drivers...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/LLVM-19-MLIR-To-SPIR-V