… Removal Pull Request For Linux To Remove Old Network Drivers, ISDN Subsystem Due To AI/LLM Noise Many Great Networking Improvements Arrive In Linux 7.1 Many MediaTek MT76 WiFi Driver Improvements Coming For Linux 7.1 Linux Fixes Performance Bug Affecting Qualcomm Ath11k & Ath12k WiFi Drivers New Pa…
… Linux 7.3 To Begin Laying The Groundwork For Intel Starfire Linux 7.3 Will Treat Intel Nova Lake S Graphics As Stable Patches Posted To Improve Linux Media Acceleration On Intel Alchemist GPUs Intel Media Driver & VPL GPU Runtime 2026Q2 Updates Continue Prepping For Nova Lake Intel Graphics Driver …
… Panther Lake Powered Framework Laptop 13 Pro Sees Linux Microphone Fix Linux 7.1-rc4 Seeing The Latest Laptop Quirks Linux 7.1 Supports Newer Logitech Bluetooth Keyboards, Malicious Input Hardware Sanitization MSI Claw Configuration Driver For Linux Coming Together With The Assistance Of AI AMD & I…
… As part of their motivation for this sponsorship, NVIDIA has been distributing DGX Spark firmware via LVFS/Fwupd. Hopefully we'll see increased usage of LVFS/Fwupd by NVIDIA for their Vera Rubin servers, future platforms, and perhaps even graphics card firmware updates. …
… Graphics drivers and wired/wireless networking remain the most common suspects for open-source drivers dependent upon non-free-software microcode/firmware handling. …
… Open-source developer Daniil Seliverstov worked out the DG2-specific GSC/MEI handling for the Xe driver with: "- add DG2 MEI GSC interface support - add HuC firmware parsing for GSC BPDT/CPD layout - improve HuC loading and authentication handling - add GSC register definitions and firmware ABI upd… …
… Linux Kernel Adds Documentation For What Qualifies As A Security Bug, Responsible AI Use Linux 7.0.8 Released & LTS Kernels Updated For ssh-keysign-pwn Linux's Latest Vulnerability Allows Reading Root-Owned Files By Unprivileged Users Fragnesia Made Public As Latest Linux Local Privilege Escalation…
… Fwupd 2.1.4 Brings Many Fixes For Bugs Spotted By Anthrophic's Mythos, Firmware Update Support For Intel Arc Pro B65/B70 HP Now Sponsoring The Linux Vendor Firmware Service / Fwupd Fwupd 2.1.3 Brings Firmware Updating To Modular Smartphones Dell & Lenovo Now Sponsoring The Linux Vendor Firmware Ser…
… 2 Comments The linux-firmware.git repository that serves as the de facto home of all the binary blobs used by the mainline Linux kernel open-source drivers has now introduced AGENTS.md documentation and other preparations for embracing AI coding agents. …
… Reordered rt5514 cleaning up, unchanged." Pretty much the usual as the graphics and networking drivers especially tend to all require loading microcode/firmware at run-time for hardware support plus more NPUs coming to market and other driver activity resulting in firmware blobs. …