GCC 15 Ends Support For Altera Nios II Embedded Processors

The GCC 15 code compiler that is releasing as stable in the early months of 2025 has removed all support for the Altera Nios II CPU target...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GCC-15-Drops-Altera-Nios-II

AMD Begins Work Upstreaming More Versal 2 SoC Support For Linux

Back in April AMD announced the Versal Gen 2 Adaptive SoCs for AI-driven embedded systems. In preparing for Versal2 evaluation kits expected around the middle of the year and production silicon by the end of 2025, AMD software engineers have begun ramping up their open-source and upstream-focused Linux driver support...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Versal-2-Linux-Upstreaming

Linux Kernel Performance Bottlenecks Spotted By Mold Developer

Open-source developer Rui Ueyama who is the lead developer of the Mold high performance linker and previously on the LLVM lld linker has written a detailed mailing list post that highlights some observed performance bottlenecks within the Linux kernel...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Kernel-Bottlenecks-Mold

Rust Hypervisor Firmware v0.5 Supports For More CPUs & Improves EFI Support

The Rust Hypervisor Firmware is a project out of the Cloud Hypervisor umbrella for developing open-source, Rust-based firmware that can be launched from any environment able to load ELF binaries and run them via the PVH booting standard. Rust Hypervisor Firmware v0.5 is out this weekend with the newest capabilities...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rust-Hypervisor-Firmware-0.5

Resources System Monitoring App For GNOME Now Displays NPU Usage

As an alternative to the GNOME System Monitor application for system monitoring, Resources has been in development as a currently unofficial, GNOME-aligned resource/hardware monitoring application written in the Rust programming language. Resources v1.7 was released on Friday and now has the ability to monitor NPU usage and other enhancements...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Resources-1.7