AMD VPE 2.0 Support Merged For Mesa 26.2
…It's been a few years now since AMD introduced the VPE engine with RDNA 3.5 refresh hardware as a a new general purpose copy engine offering various scaling and transform…
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Ubuntu 26.04 Allows "sudo apt install rocm" But It's Months Out-Of-Date
…bode confidence that these ROCm packages will be rigorously updated/maintained. Especially with the newer ROCm 7.2.x releases improving hardware support and other improvements. Especially with the rate of improvements…
Valve Developer Further Improves Old AMD GPUs: HD 7870 XT Finally Working On Linux
…Now Timur's out with some more fixes for helping select GCN 1.0 hardware. The latest work by Timur Kristóf is on more Southern Islands (GCN 1.0) fixes for AMDGPU…
GNOME Mutter 50.1 Fixes Performance Regression For Some NVIDIA Driver Versions
…Mutter 50.1 also brings a fix to apply Pango scale attributes to text, a fix to move minimized maximized windows to a different monitor, using fewer buffers for screencast streams, and…
AMDGPU Linux Driver Preps For HDMI 2.1 Compliance Testing
While not as exciting as features like HDMI 2.1 FRL and Display Stream Compression itself, as part of AMD's efforts to provide a fully open-source HDMI 2.1 driver…
AMD Improves GPU Support Under WSL With Production Open-Source ROCDXG
…Linux Scheduler Work Helping Boost Gaming Performance On Old "Potato" Hardware IBM s390 Is The Latest Architecture Seeing Rust Linux Kernel Support Fwupd 2.1.3 Brings Firmware Updating To Modular Smartphones
RADV Driver Enables Host Image Copy By Default For RDNA2 & Newer
…Finally now though with updated AMD ADDRLIB library, the performance is good enough for enabling by default on RDNA 2 (GFX10.3) and newer GPUs. Samuel Pitoiset of Valve's Linux graphics…
AMD Linux Graphics Driver Introducing "Power Module" To Better Match Windows Behavior
…DRM Format Modifiers Open-Source Radeon Driver For R300 Through R500 GPUs Sees Big Code Cleanup In 2026 HDMI 2.1 Display Stream Compression "DSC" Also Ready For AMDGPU Linux Driver AMD…
Plasma 6.6, 6.7 & 6.8 See Plenty Of Bug Fixing This Week
…desktop release. - Plasma 6.7 also fixes an issue with certain laptop hardware/firmware that could trigger "an infinite stream" of keyboard brightness on screen displays after closing the laptop lid. - Plasma…
Mesa 26.1 RadeonSI Driver Lands Improvement For AMD APUs With Rusticl
…DRM Format Modifiers Open-Source Radeon Driver For R300 Through R500 GPUs Sees Big Code Cleanup In 2026 HDMI 2.1 Display Stream Compression "DSC" Also Ready For AMDGPU Linux Driver AMD…