ARM Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life (Terry Pratchett, Jingo)

Linux 6.18 To Improve Support For Apple's A11, Other Apple Silicon Improvements

([Apple] 23 September 09:14 AM EDT Apple SIlicon + Linux 6.18)

Two pull requests were submitted this weekend of new Apple Silicon material ready for upstreaming with the soon-to-start Linux 6.18 kernel cycle.



AMD Versal NET DDR EDAC Driver Ready For Linux 6.18

([AMD] 23 September 08:33 AM EDT AMD Versal NET DDR EDAC Driver)

For further enhancing the upstream Linux kernel support for the AMD (Xilinx) Versal SoCs, a new Error Detection And Correction (EDAC) driver is set to premiere in the upcoming Linux 6.18 kernel for the Versal NET SoCs with DDR memory.



Mesa 25.3 Lands SPIR-V Shader Replacement Support

([Mesa] 23 September 06:45 AM EDT SPIR-V Shader Replacement)

Merged to Mesa 25.3-devel on Monday is SPIR-V shader replacement support as a new feature for helping Mesa's Vulkan drivers in testing and debugging issues.



New Patches Optimize EXT4 Online Defragmentation For Better Performance

([Linux Storage] 23 September 06:50 AM EDT EXT4 Online Defragmentation)

A set of 13 patches were posted today to the Linux kernel mailing list for optimizing the online defragmentation handling by the EXT4 kernel driver. The online defragmentation improvements for EXT4 can net a nice performance win with a very significant improvement in a variety of scenarios.



FFmpeg Lands Support For AHX, ADPCM Silicon Graphics N64 Decoder

([Multimedia] 23 September 06:20 AM EDT FFmpeg)

Beyond the continued flow of new performance optimizations via hand-written Assembly, with the FFmpeg project it's also interesting to monitor their ever-expanding scope of supported audio/video formats. The newest to land in FFmpeg Git is support for AHX audio files.



Qt 6.10 RC Available For Testing With Native PipeWire Audio Back-End

([Qt] 23 September 06:05 AM EDT Qt 6.10)

Out today is the Qt 6.10 release candidate for this forthcoming toolkit release.



OBS Studio 32.0 Released With Plugin Manager, NVIDIA RTX Improvements

([Multimedia] 22 September 08:40 PM EDT OBS Studio 32)

OBS Studio 32.0 stable is now available for this popular cross-platform desktop recording and screencasting software popular with game streamers and for a variety of other recording/casting purposes.



GNU Coreutils 9.8 Released With New Features

([GNU] 22 September 05:38 PM EDT Coreutils 9.8)

While the Rust Coreutils project has been generating a lot of interest recently from the uutils initiative, the upstream GNU Coreutils project isn't slowing down and today is out with GNU Coreutils 9.8 for shipping the newest features.



RPM 6.0 Released With OpenPGP Improvements & Enforces Signature Checking By Default

([Red Hat] 22 September 11:54 AM EDT RPM 6.0)

RPM 6.0 is out today as the newest major update to the RPM Package Manager as the package management system most commonly associated with Red Hat / Fedora, openSUSE, Mageia / OpenMandriva, and others.



AMD Ryzen AI Max+ "Strix Halo" Performance With ROCm 7.0

([Display Drivers] 22 September 10:30 AM EDT 30 Comments)

With last week's official release of ROCm 7.0 failing to mention the AMD Ryzen AI Max "Strix Halo" SoCs on the supported GPU list, a number of Phoronix readers and from elsewhere were inquiring whether or not Strix Halo works with the new ROCm release. Various AMD folks have mentioned Strix Halo with ROCm, so I decided to run some benchmarks for myself of ROCm 7.0 on Ubuntu Linux with the AMD Ryzen AI Max 395 with Radeon 8060S Graphics on the Framework Desktop.



A Major Trading Firm Has Open-Sourced The Latest Linux File-System: TernFS

([Linux Storage] 22 September 08:35 AM EDT XTX TernFS)

XTX Markets as one of the largest algorithmic trading firms that handles $250 billion in daily traded volume and relies on around 650+ petabytes of storage for its price forecasts and other algorithmic trading data has open-sourced its Linux file-system. XTX developed TernFS for distributed storage after they outgrew their original NFS usage and other file-system alternatives.



Linux 6.18 Adding A New Power Savings Option For The Intel Graphics Driver

([Intel] 22 September 08:00 AM EDT SLPC Power Profile)

Queued up into DRM-Next is a last batch of Intel Xe kernel graphics driver improvements ahead of the Linux 6.18 merge window that is expected to begin next week. With this last minute Intel Xe driver activity is also a new power management knob for those wanting to run their Intel graphics slightly more efficient.



Qt Creator 18 Beta Brings Development Container Support

([Qt] 22 September 06:30 AM EDT Qt Creator 18)

The beta release of the Qt Creator 18 integrated development environment is now available for testing for this Qt/C++-focused IDE.



Vulkan 1.4.327 Introduces A New Valve Vendor Extension

([Vulkan] 22 September 06:15 AM EDT VK_VALVE_video_encode_rgb_conversion)

Version 1.4.327 of the Vulkan API specification was released on Friday and with it comes one new extension, which is a Valve vendor extension.



FreeBSD 15.0 Alpha 3 Brings WiFi Driver Updates

([BSD] 22 September 06:03 AM EDT FreeBSD 15)

The third weekly alpha release of the upcoming FreeBSD 15 operating system is now available for testing.



Raspberry Pi Releases M.2 HAT+ Compact For $15

([Raspberry Pi] 22 September 05:52 AM EDT Raspberry Pi M.2 HAT+ Compact)

Raspberry Pi today announced the M.2 HAT+ Compact as a new smaller version of their M.2 HAT+ for these single board computers.



Linux 6.17-rc7 Released: Linux 6.17 Stable Expected Next Week

([Linux Kernel] 21 September 06:30 PM EDT Linux 6.17)

Linus Torvalds just released Linux 6.17-rc7 as the last planned release candidate of the in-development Linux 6.17 kernel that is expected to go final next weekend.



Linux Ready To Upstream Support For Google's PSP Encryption For TCP Connections

([Linux Networking] 21 September 09:04 AM EDT PSP Encryption For TCP Connections)

Not to be confused with AMD's Platform Security Processor (PSP), but Google's PSP Security Protocol (PSP) for encryption in-transit for TCP network connections is now ready for the mainline kernel. This initial PSP encryption support for network connections is set to arrive with the upcoming Linux 6.18 kernel.



Multi-Kernel Architecture Proposed For The Linux Kernel

([Linux Kernel] 21 September 06:39 AM EDT Linux Multi-Kernel Architecture)

Code was open-sourced this week and posted to the Linux kernel mailing list as a "request for comments" (RFC) for a multi-kernel architecture. This proposal could allow for multiple independent kernel instances to co-exist on a single physical machine. Each kernel could run on dedicated CPU Cores while sharing underlying hardware resources. This could also allow for some complex use-cases such as real-time (RT) kernels running on select CPU cores.



Linux 6.18 Expected To Land Google's Rust Binder Driver

([Linux Kernel] 21 September 06:22 AM EDT Rust Binder)

The past few years Google engineers have been reimplementing Android's Binder driver in the Rust programming language. Binder is a critical part of Android for inter-process communication (IPC) and now with Linux 6.18 it looks like the Rust rewrite will be upstreamed.



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