… AMDGPU HDMI 2.1 FRL Support Will Require Manual Enabling Initially, As Spotted In the Latest Linux Patches We recently saw AMD posting the FRL Fixed Rate Link patches to the Linux kernel , adding support for HDMI 2.1, which has been a challenge for a long time. …
… Related Story Intel Preps Panther Lake “R” For Harsh Environments, Linux Patch Outs New Model ID 223 And A P-Core/LP-E Only Layout Phoronix reports that Intel has just submitted its first Xe3P kernel graphics driver patches, which are expected to be included in the Linux 6.19 kernel cycle. …
AMD continues to prepare its next-gen Zen 6 processors for launch as evident from the latest Linux kernel patches. Linux Kernel Patches Reveal Support for 32 Additional Zen 6 CPU SKUs Linux kernel patches often reveal future hardware even before the official announcement. …
… Early Linux 7.1 Patches Reveal a Major Cleanup and Modern CPU Enablement, and Driver Improvements for AMD, Intel, and NVIDIA Hardware With the Linux 7.0 release, the merge window for Linux Kernel 7.1 has opened, and the new kernel is already getting readied through subsystem pull requests and featu… …
… Related Story Intel Panther Lake & Wildcat Lake Arrive On Desktop PCs With First MoDT Designs From Maxsun As per the patches submitted by Intel for the Linux Kernel, Intel is preparing Panther Lake R , which is a "derivative" of the current Panther Lake chips. …
… Related Story AMD Posts HDMI 2.1 FRL & DSC Patches To Linux Kernel, Keeping FRL Disabled By Default The Linux kernel 6.19, which is scheduled for release in February 2026, will bring some massive performance improvements, as can be seen in early tests by Phoronix. …
… With this, the kernel can offer memory protection as a means to protect from eviction. But further tuning had to be made, and with patches from Natalie, memory usage is handled much more aggressively. The result can be seen when Cyberpunk 2077 is booted once again with the patches in place. …
… NVIDIA Nova Kernel Graphics Driver Patches Confirm Next-Gen GPUs Will Rely Solely on Boot42 as Boot0 Gets Phased Out NVIDIA usually handles architecture identification through registers such as Boot0, which has been used for the Blackwell cards, but a new Boot42 identification logic has just appear… …
… Intel Panther Lake will transition to NPU5 while Nova Lake will utilize NPU6, a 6th-gen NPU Neural Processing Unit , which was seen in a Linux Kernel patch. …
… A total of 23 patches were included in the i915 Linux Kernel driver with over 700 lines of code. …