AMD Geode CPU Support Being Orphaned By Linux
…3 Brings Minor Updates, ROCm XIO Documentation AMD's GAIA Defaults To Better Model, Continued Improvements For Local AI AMD Introducing New Linux Driver For Their Halo Box: For Its RGB LED…
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Intel Panther Lake & Linux AI/LLM Debates Dominated Q1 For Linux Users
…As part of the "tools", the main motivator for this documentation has been around the era of AI and large language models with coding assistants and more. Torvalds made some remarks on…
Arm Mali G1 Pro Now Working With Open-Source PanVK & Panfrost Drivers
…Now with Mesa 26.2 due for release next quarter, the Mali G1-Pro is advertised as supported but not yet advertising the G1-Premium or G1-Ultra models. The Mali G1…
Farewell ISDN, Ham Radio & Old Network Drivers: Linus Torvalds Merges 138k L.O.C. Removal
…This was the code suggested for removal given the recent influx of AI/LLM-generated bug reports against this dated code that likely has no active upstream users remaining. It's been…
Panther Lake Powered Framework Laptop 13 Pro Sees Linux Microphone Fix
…This week's sound fixes pull includes a fix for the microphone boost on the Framework PTL (Panther Lake) laptop, which is coming with the brand new Framework 13 Pro model. Framework…
GCC Compiler Adds Arm AGI CPU Target
…Last month Arm announced their first silicon product with the Arm AGI CPU featuring up to 136 Arm Neoverse V3 cores and designed for AI data centers. As part of getting the…
IBM Collaborating With Arm For Dual-Architecture Hardware
…IBM and Arm are teaming up to work on dual-architecture hardware with a focus on AI and data centers. " Through this collaboration, IBM and Arm aim to extend this track record…
Linux Finally Lands Battery/Charger Driver For 14 Year Old Microsoft Surface RT Tablet
…This exposes properties such as the current charge level, the power current, manufacturer / model information, serial number, current voltage, and whether the charger is active. This driver was previously available as an…
Valve Developer Further Improves Old AMD GPUs: HD 7870 XT Finally Working On Linux
…Due to Radeon HD 7870 XT GPUs having been "harvested" from more premium models that were then cut-down to HD 7870 XT specifications, the AMDGPU kernel driver hasn't properly supported…
Sched QoS For Linux Aims To Improve Scheduling & Inspired In Part By Apple's QoS Classes
…34 Comments Linux developer Qais Yousef with Google has announced the alpha release of Sched QoS as a new initiative for user-space assisted scheduling. The scheduling model in turn is based…