AMD InterWave ISA Sound Card Driver Seeing New Linux Patches In 2026
…old hardware, to much amusement there are new patches today for the AMD InterWave ISA sound card from the 1990s. While the Linux kernel is preparing to phase out its Intel 486…
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Glibc Lands A Big Optimization For LoongArch CPUs
…Or compiling the Linux kernel with LLM yielded a wall time reduction of about 12%. It's quite a big performance win from this patch to THP-aligned load segments by default…
Linux 7.1 KVM Adds "Very Experimental" Support For pKVM Protected Guests
…For Guest VMs IBM Lays Out Patches For ARM Virtualization Acceleration On IBM Z Servers OpenZFS 2.4.2 Released With Linux 7.0 Kernel Support, Many Bug Fixes AMD & Intel Roll…
Valve Developer Improves The Linux Gaming Experience For Limited vRAM Hardware
…patches to the Linux kernel and KDE for sharply improving the gaming experience for those running systems with limited amounts of video memory. Such as for graphics cards with just 8GB of…
Torvalds: AI Tools Great When Not Causing Unnecessary Pain & Pointless Make-Believe Work
…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 Vulnerability Linux Scheduler Work…
Linux 7.1 Fixes Audio For The Steam Deck OLED After Being Broken 2 Years On The Upstream Kernel
…Valve's downstream Steam OS kernel has compensated for this known breakage and other distributions targeting the Steam Deck OLED have carried the patch, but now there is a proper solution upstream…
AMD Linux Graphics Driver Introducing "Power Module" To Better Match Windows Behavior
With the set of today's AMDGPU kernel graphics driver Display Core (DC) patches is a rather curious addition with wiring up the Linux code to a 'power module' that looks like…
Panther Lake Powered Framework Laptop 13 Pro Sees Linux Microphone Fix
…AMD & Intel Roll Out New Linux Updates For Today's Patch Tuesday IBM s390 Is The Latest Architecture Seeing Rust Linux Kernel Support ARCTIC Fan Controller Driver Expected To Land In Linux…
Linux Begins Removing Support For Russia's Baikal CPUs
…removal patches pending for Baikal support with the basis: "Baikal SoC and platform support won't be finalised, remove stale pieces." For the support that does exist in the mainline kernel, you…
Linux 7.1 Lands The Apple SMC Power Driver For Reporting Battery Metrics On MacBooks
…The Apple SMC power driver has been coming together in recent months for the mainline kernel after originally being worked on by Hector Martin for Asahi Linux. The patch wiring up the…