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Qualcomm Iris Driver Adds H.264/H.265 Encode, Sadly No AMD ISP4 Driver For Linux 6.18

([Multimedia] 5 Hours Ago Linux 6.18 Media)


All of the multimedia subsystem feature updates have been merged for the [1]Linux 6.18 merge window.

For the [2]Qualcomm "Iris" video acceleration driver there is now H.264 and H.265 video encoding support plus various fixes to that driver.

The Qualcomm Venus video processing driver also added support for the AR50_LITE video core. The Qualcomm CAMSS camera subsystem driver also added support for the CSID 340 and QCM2290 CAMSS.

There are also a few new camera sensor drivers and various other changes as part of the [3]media pull for Linux 6.18.

Sadly what didn't make this pull request is [4]the AMD ISP4 web cam driver needed for the HP ZBook Ultra G1a and other future AMD Ryzen laptops to make use of this AMD image signal processing IP for a better web cam experience. The [5]AMD ISP4 driver is currently awaiting review . Hopefully it will be good to go soon and could technically be merged later in the v6.18 cycle as a new driver but at this stage it may be stuck waiting now until v6.19.



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/search/Linux+6.18

[2] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.15-Media-Subsystem

[3] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20251001172511.2d0514ec@sal.lan/

[4] https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-ISP4-Linux-Driver-v3

[5] https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-ISP4-Driver-Pending-Review


World Domination, One CPU Cycle At A Time

Forget about searching for alien signals or prime numbers. The real
distributed computing application is "Domination@World", a program to advocate
Linux and Apache to every website in the world that uses Windows and IIS.

The goal of the project is to probe every IP number to determine what kind of
platform each Net-connected machine is running. "That's a tall order... we
need lots of computers running our Domination@World clients to help probe
every nook and cranny of the Net," explained Mr. Zell Litt, the project head.

After the probing is complete, the second phase calls for the data to be
cross-referenced with the InterNIC whois database. "This way we'll have the
names, addresses, and phone numbers for every Windows-using system
administrator on the planet," Zell gloated. "That's when the fun begins."

The "fun" part involves LART (Linux Advocacy & Re-education Training), a plan
for extreme advocacy. As part of LART, each Linux User Group will receive a
list of the Windows-using weenies in their region. The LUG will then be able
to employ various advocacy techniques, ranging from a soft-sell approach
(sending the target a free Linux CD in the mail) all the way to "LARTcon 5"
(cracking into their system and forcibly installing Linux).