… With Wild Linker 0.9 they have worked on porting to other platforms and as a result have done code refactoring around their ELF-specific behavior and other platform-specific bits. …
… Lastly the CDN3 driver added USBSSP platform driver support. The full list of USB changes merged for Linux 7.1 can be found via this pull . …
… 4 Comments As usual in recent years, there were many x86 platform driver changes merged this cycle for benefiting modern AMD Ryzen and Intel Core Ultra laptops. …
… The rest of the x86 platform driver changes merged today amount to typical bug fixes. …
… More details on this week's round of platform-drivers-x86 changes can be found via the pull request that is merged to Git ahead of tomorrow's Linux 7.1-rc5 release. …
… See the four SoC pulls for Linux 7.1 for details on the many changes now merged for this next kernel version. …
… Besides getting VA-API video acceleration atop NVDEC working for NVIDIA GB10 and similar unified memory platforms, there is also a fix around JPEG handling in NVIDIA-VAAPI-Driver. Those are the main changes with today's v0.0.17 release. …
… The AMD Side Band Interface "AMD SBI" driver now has EPYC Venice platform support. The AMD SBI driver is used for various system management features on EPYC servers as part of AMD's Advanced Platform Management Link APML . …
… More Linux 7.1 kernel performance benchmarks are forthcoming on different hardware platforms at Phoronix. Continue on for the more exhaustive look at interesting changes to find with the forthcoming Linux 7.1 kernel. …
… The full list of merged sound changes can be found via the pull request that is already merged to Linux Git. …