Mesa Begins Seeing Patch Activity For AMD GFX12.1 Graphics
…GFX12 (12.0) was for the Radeon RX 9000 series RDNA4 hardware while GFX 12.1 is some new revision for yet-to-be-known products while there is also GFX13 bring…
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AMD & Intel Roll Out New Linux Updates For Today's Patch Tuesday
…More details on today's AMD disclosures can be found via the AMD product security center . Meanwhile on the Intel side for Linux users today they released Intel CPU Microcode 20260512 . This…
Framework Reports More Memory Cost Increases, Some Good News For Framework 16
…They also warn of the industry challenges affecting their memory card production and pricing: "Both DRAM (memory) and NAND (the raw flash that goes into SSDs) are facing a massive supply/demand…
Intel FRED Appears Ready To Enable By Default With Linux 7.1
…The past last week though characterized the non-default state as waiting on production hardware for validating the performance impact and ensuring no regressions. "When FRED was added to the mainline kernel…
JFS Sees Data Integrity Hardening With Linux 7.1
…For anyone still relying on JFS in production, the Linux 7.1 kernel is bringing more robust data integrity checking for the file-system. There are new integrity checks added to address…
hid-omg-detect: Linux Driver In Development To Detect Malicious HID Devices
…Detection is currently based on factors like low keystroke timing entropy, immediate post-enumeration typing, and known suspicious vendor/product IDs and HID descriptor anomalies. With this driver there is a configurable…
ASUS Armoury & HP WMI Drivers Add More Laptops Ahead Of Linux 7.0-rc6
…The latest batch of now-supported ASUS products include the ASUS ROG Strix G16 2025 (G614FP), ROG Zephyrus G15 2021 (GA503QM), and ROG Flow Z13 (GZ302EAC). These laptops should all be playing…
RADV Driver Enables Host Image Copy By Default For RDNA2 & Newer
…Samuel Pitoiset of Valve's Linux graphics team explained in a now-merged Mesa patch : "Latest addrlib supports SIMD (AVX2) and it's definitely fast enough to be used in production now…
Radeon Software For Linux 26.12 Brings Ubuntu 26.04 Support
…GPUs and newer both from the Radeon consumer line and the Radeon PRO and FIrePro products too. One month after the official Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release, this new AMD Radeon Software…
AMD Preps More AIE4 NPU Hardware Enablement For AMDXDNA Driver In Linux 7.2
…We still don't know for sure when this AIE4 NPU will premiere for sure in new Ryzen AI products, but the Linux enablement continues coming along nicely for the AMDXDNA accelerator…