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)

AMD Preparing "High Precision" Mode For Upcoming Instinct MI350X (GFX950)

([Radeon] 9 March 10:27 AM EDT HSA_HIGH_PRECISION_MODE MFMA Precision)

On Friday AMD sent out another batch of AMDGPU and AMDKFD kernel driver feature patches destined for the upcoming Linux 6.15 kernel cycle. One notable feature in this late pull request is introducing a new "high precision" mode to be found with the GFX950 target, which is believed to be the upcoming Instinct MI350X series.



Intel Preps Linux For "Platform Temperature Control" With Lunar Lake & Panther Lake SoCs

([Intel] 9 March 10:00 AM EDT Intel Platform Temperature Control)

Intel's new Platform Temperature Control (PTC) feature is a hardware-based solution to manage skin and/or board temperatures of a device. Platform Temperature Control will adjust the SoC power/performance if the temperature thresholds are exceeded, which are programmed by the device manufacturer. But new Linux patches posted allow controlling the Intel Platform Temperature Control feature found with new Core Ultra Lunar Lake laptops and upcoming Panther Lake hardware.



More Apple Silicon Updates For Linux 6.15 Help M1/M2 Plus iPad / iPod / iPhone

([Apple] 9 March 07:48 AM EDT DeviceTree)

Already queued ahead of the Linux 6.15 merge window opening later this month are DeviceTree support for Apple's T2 SoCs as well as other DeviceTree additions set to be mainlined. A third round of DeviceTree patches were sent out on Sunday morning to the Linux kernel mailing list for the upcoming v6.15 cycle.



ALGOL 68 Compiler Front-End Not Being Merged Into GCC At This Point

([Programming] 9 March 07:35 AM EDT ALGOL 68)

ALGOL 68 is an imperative programming language that's more than a half-century old and went on to inspire and influence other programming languages. It has its place in programming language history but a recently published compiler front-end for ALGOL 68 has been decided for now at least not to be upstreamed into the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC).



Intel NPU Firmware Files Upstreamed To linux-firmware.git

([Intel] 9 March 07:22 AM EDT Intel NPU Firmware)

For two years now the Intel IVPU accelerator driver has been part of the mainline kernel for supporting the Neural Processing Unit (NPU) that's part of the Core Ultra "Meteor Lake" CPUs and newer. Only this week though was the firmware for the Intel NPUs now upstreamed to the linux-firmware.git repository.



Wine Releases Framework Mono 6.14 In Taking Over The Mono Project

([WINE] 8 March 12:28 PM EST Mono 6.14)

Last year Microsoft donated the Mono Project to Wine for its stewardship under the WineHQ umbrella. Today marks the Framework Mono 6.14 release as the first major Mono release in five years and the first under the WineHQ organization.



Rust Coreutils 0.0.30 Enhances GNU Compatibility, Uutils To Port More Common Unix Tools

([Programming] 8 March 10:02 AM EST uutils Coreutils 0.0.30)

The uutils project has released Rust Coreutils 0.0.30 as the newest version of this GNU Coreutils rewrite within the Rust programming language. Uutils developers will also be targeting more common Unix tools to port over to Rust too.



GTK On Android & macOS Seeing Improvements

([GNOME] 8 March 07:07 AM EST GNOME This Week)

In addition to Friday's very exciting GNOME 48 release candidate with some last minute features, there have also been some other GNOME-related changes this week to call out.



Mesa's Venus Driver Adds Vulkan Ray-Tracing Support For VMs

([Virtualization] 8 March 06:50 AM EST Vulkan Ray-Tracing Within VMs)

Mesa's Venus driver that allows for 3D graphics acceleration within virtual machines is now able to make use of the Vulkan ray-tracing extensions when using Mesa 25.1-devel along with updated Venus Protocol and Virglrenderer code.



Wine-Staging 10.3 Adds Patch For A 15 Year Old Bug

([WINE] 8 March 06:38 AM EST Wine-Staging 10.3)

Building off yesterday's release of Wine 10.3 is now Wine-Staging 10.3 for this more experimental version of Wine that is presently shipping 347 experimental/testing patches atop the upstream state.



KDE This Week Took Care Of "A Very Large Number Of Bugs"

([KDE] 8 March 06:22 AM EST KDE Bug Fixing)

KDE developer Nate Graham is out with the newest issue of This Week in Plasma to highlight all of the interesting KDE Plasma improvements merged for the week.



Wine 10.3 Wires Up Wayland Driver Clipboard Handling, Vulkan Video Decode Within WineD3D

([WINE] 7 March 04:40 PM EST Wine 10.3)

Wine 10.3 was just released as the newest bi-weekly development release for this open-source software to run Windows applications and games under Linux and other platforms.



GNOME 48 Release Candidate Brings Late Mutter Features & Other Changes

([GNOME] 7 March 04:22 PM EST GNOME 48.rc)

The GNOME 48 release candidate "48.rc" is out this evening as we approach the stable release of the GNOME 48 desktop in two weeks.



Vulkan Video Continues Making Inroads, VP9 Decode Planned For This Year

([Vulkan] 7 March 01:28 PM EST Vulkan Video 2025)

At the Vulkanised 2025 conference a few weeks back in Cambridge (UK) there were a few presentations concerning Vulkan Video for this cross-vendor, cross-platform video encode/decode interface.



Ubuntu To Revert "-O3" Optimizations, Continues Quest For Easier ARM64 Installations

([Ubuntu] 7 March 11:10 AM EST Ubuntu Foundations)

Canonical engineer Matthieu Clemenceau has posted a status update on the behalf of the Ubuntu Foundations engineers now half-way through the Ubuntu 25.04 development cycle. A number of notable package updates have landed as well as continued work on better ARM64 support and coming to a decision over "-O3" optimized packages.



AMD Officially Confirms Ryzen 9 9900X3D + Ryzen 9 9950X3D Pricing & Availability

([AMD] 7 March 10:41 AM EST Ryzen 9 9900X3D)

Back in January at CES was the Ryzen 9 9000X3D and Ryzen 9 9950X3D announcement while today AMD officially confirmed the release date and pricing on these new Zen 5 desktop CPUs with 3D V-Cache.



GCC 15 Now Enables AArch64 Early Scheduling For -O3/-Ofast Modes

([Arm] 7 March 10:13 AM EST Early Schedule)

The GCC "-fschedule-insns" option allows for reordering of instructions to eliminate execution stalls when required data is unavailable. This early scheduling option can be beneficial for systems with slow floating point performance or costly memory load instructions. With the upcoming GCC 15 release, AArch64 will be enabling this early scheduling optimization at the -O3 optimization level and higher.



Unofficial ROCm SDK Builder Expanded To Support More GPUs

([Radeon] 7 March 08:40 AM EST ROCm SDK Builder)

The community-based ROCm SDK Builder is an unofficial project leveraging the open-source AMD ROCm code and making it easy to build machine learning and GPU compute software across a range of environments and helping ensure proper integration with other machine learning tools and models. The ROCm SDK Builder takes special focus on the consumer Radeon iGPUs and dGPUs that typically aren't as much of a focus for the upstream AMD ROCm stack.



Intel Xe Driver Introducing SVM, EU Stall Sampling & Other New Features For Linux 6.15

([Intel] 7 March 06:55 AM EST Intel Xe)

Intel engineers today sent out their final drm-xe-next feature pull request to DRM-Next of the remaining features they are ready to land for the modern Intel Xe kernel graphics driver with the upcoming Linux 6.15 cycle. It's a big one.



Mesa Lands A Shader Statistics Framework For More Unification Across Drivers

([Mesa] 7 March 06:19 AM EST Shader Stats Framework)

The latest bit of increased driver code unification and decreasing code duplication among Mesa's OpenGL and Vulkan drivers is finally introducing a common shader statistic framework.



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