Linux Sees Fixes For Its GD-ROM Driver In 2026 For Sega Dreamcast
…11 Comments Seeing new Linux patches for benefiting Sega Dreamcast devices wasn't on my bingo card for 2026. A patch series was sent out today for fixing the Linux kernel's…
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Linux's Power Sequencing PCIe M.2 Driver To Support M.2 Key-E Connectors
Merged for the Linux 7.0 kernel was a power sequencing driver for PCIe M.2 connectors as part of an effort to allow describing PCIe M.2 connectors in Device Tree…
Linux 7.1 Sees RAID Fixes, IO_uring Enhancements
…For Linux 7.1 NVMe support there is enhanced block queue limits support, a new write zeroes devicde quirk, and updates to NVMe Fabrics authentication handling. The Linux MD "Soft RAID" code…
Many Intel & AMD Laptop Improvements Merged For Linux 7.1
…The Uniwill driver now allows setting the USB-C power/performance priority, adding the XMG Fusion 15 (L19) support, and enabling fine-grained features to the device line-up mapping. For more…
ARCTIC Fan Controller Driver Expected To Land In Linux 7.2
…The device pushes IN reports at ~1 Hz containing RPM readings. PWM is set via OUT reports; the device applies the new duty cycle and sends back a 2-byte ACK (Report…
Linux 7.1 Sound Code Adds Bus Keepers: Aiming For Better Apple Silicon Support
…I have integrated this approach into our downstream platform driver and select Devicetrees as an example of how this mechanism is intended to be used." In addition to that bus keeper support…
ASUS Armoury & HP WMI Drivers Add More Laptops Ahead Of Linux 7.0-rc6
…Due to the new hardware support amounting to just device IDs and not risking existing hardware support, it's fine for merging at this late stage of Linux 7.0 development. The…
Linux 7.1 Removes Drivers For Long Obsolete Input Hardware: Bye Bus Mouse Support
…There are also three other drivers for portable devices from the late 1990s to early 2000s. The InPort / Microsoft / ATI XL busmouse driver is one of those removed for Linux 7.1…
Dell XPS 13 Snapdragon Elite Laptop Sees New EC Linux Driver To Improve Support
…This driver doesn't appear to have been sanctioned by Dell directly but developed via analyzing the ACPI DSDT dumps from the device during different stages of operation. Having this dell-xps…
Linux 7.1 x86/x86_64 Aligns With Other Architectures Now For Supporting Custom Restart Handlers
…So with a small change merged for Linux 7.1, it's now being called for quirky x86/x86_64 hardware going about custom restart methods and aligned with the behavior of…