… There is a configurable frequency limit for the NPU to constrain the power and thermal management. Via sysfs the NPU minimum and maximum frequencies can be set as well as reading the hardware's optimal frequency for best energy efficiency. …
… This video processing engine can allow for energy efficient HDR conversions, scaling, tone and gamut-mapping, and more. VPE 1.0 was found with the Ryzen AI 300 series RDNA 3.5 iGPU and VPE 1.1 with RDNA4 while now VPE 2.0 is being wired up to the Mesa driver stack. …
… Airoha AN8801R Gigabit Ethernet PHY Driver Coming To Linux 7.2 Linux 7.2 Proceeding To Deprecate AF ALG Due To "Massive Attack Surface", Drops Offloading Linux Might Finally Disable The Microsoft RNDIS Protocol Drivers In 2026 Linux Networking Still Seeing "Significantly Bigger" Pull Requests Due T…
… Intel engineer and Linux power management subsystem maintainer Rafael Wysocki explained in today's patch: "In principle, the desired performance level can be set in MSR HWP REQUEST to indicate to the processor what performance level the OS would like the given CPU to run at, but if the Dynamic Effi… …
… Intel's Vulkan Linux Driver Now Supports Device Generated Commands "DGC" Intel's Vulkan Linux Driver Lands Experimental Support For Descriptor Heaps Intel Drivers With Mesa 26.2 Ready With Xe In Linux 7.1 To Better Handle vRAM Pressure Intel Making More GPU Driver Improvements For Crescent Island W…
… Their argument for doing so is to " increase it's effectiveness through maintaining higher quality standards and better community cooperation. " Though what that all entails remains to be seen. …
… Intel Kernel Graphics Driver Brings Panel Replay Tunneling For Linux 7.2 Intel's Vulkan Linux Driver Lands Experimental Support For Descriptor Heaps Intel Drivers With Mesa 26.2 Ready With Xe In Linux 7.1 To Better Handle vRAM Pressure Intel Making More GPU Driver Improvements For Crescent Island W…
… Vera features 88 Olympus cores that claim to deliver 2x the performance of its predecessor with leading energy efficiency too. …
… Linus Torvalds Reaffirms That Linux Is Not "Anti-AI" & Not A "Social Warrior" Project Overnight Linux creator Linus Torvalds wrote another well crafted message that reaffirms the Linux kernel position of not being against AI and lashing back against some kernel developers that are against AI/LLM us… …