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Linux's ARM Apple Support Now Has Another Code Reviewer

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10 March

In hopefully helping Asahi Linux reduce their downstream patch burden and helping to enhance the overall flow of new Apple Silicon related code into the mainline Linux kernel, another developer has agreed to serve as an official code reviewer over the ARM Apple bits within the Linux kernel...

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The New Rust-Written NVIDIA "NOVA" Driver Submitted Ahead Of Linux 6.15

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10 March

For quite a while Red Hat engineers have been developing the open-source, Rust-written NOVA driver to in effect serve as the successor to the reverse-engineered Nouveau driver that isn't too actively developed in more recent times. But unlike Nouveau's extensive range of NVIDIA GPU support, the NOVA driver is intentionally limited to the RTX 20 "Turing" GPUs and newer where there is the NVIDIA GPU System Processor (GSP) with the firmware support to leverage for an easier driver-writing experience. The very initial NOVA driver code was sent out on Sunday for DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 6.15 merge window...

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Linux 6.14-rc6 Released With More Panther Lake Additions, AMD Microcode Signing Fix

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10 March

Linus Torvalds released Linux 6.14-rc6 a few minutes ago as we work toward the stable Linux 6.14 kernel release later in March...

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AMD Preparing "High Precision" Mode For Upcoming Instinct MI350X (GFX950)

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9 March

On Friday AMD sent out another batch of AMDGPU and AMDKFD kernel driver feature patches destined for the upcoming Linux 6.15 kernel cycle. One notable feature in this late pull request is introducing a new "high precision" mode to be found with the GFX950 target, which is believed to be the upcoming Instinct MI350X series...

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Intel Preps Linux For "Platform Temperature Control" With Lunar Lake & Panther Lake SoCs

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9 March

Intel's new Platform Temperature Control (PTC) feature is a hardware-based solution to manage skin and/or board temperatures of a device. Platform Temperature Control will adjust the SoC power/performance if the temperature thresholds are exceeded, which are programmed by the device manufacturer. But new Linux patches posted allow controlling the Intel Platform Temperature Control feature found with new Core Ultra Lunar Lake laptops and upcoming Panther Lake hardware...

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More Apple Silicon Updates For Linux 6.15 Help M1/M2 Plus iPad / iPod / iPhone

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9 March

Already queued ahead of the Linux 6.15 merge window opening later this month are DeviceTree support for Apple's T2 SoCs as well as other DeviceTree additions set to be mainlined. A third round of DeviceTree patches were sent out on Sunday morning to the Linux kernel mailing list for the upcoming v6.15 cycle...

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ALGOL 68 Compiler Front-End Not Being Merged Into GCC At This Point

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9 March

ALGOL 68 is an imperative programming language that's more than a half-century old and went on to inspire and influence other programming languages. It has its place in programming language history but a recently published compiler front-end for ALGOL 68 has been decided for now at least not to be upstreamed into the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC)...

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Intel NPU Firmware Files Upstreamed To linux-firmware.git

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9 March

For two years now the Intel IVPU accelerator driver has been part of the mainline kernel for supporting the Neural Processing Unit (NPU) that's part of the Core Ultra "Meteor Lake" CPUs and newer. Only this week though was the firmware for the Intel NPUs now upstreamed to the linux-firmware.git repository...

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Wine Releases Framework Mono 6.14 In Taking Over The Mono Project

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 8 March

Last year Microsoft donated the Mono Project to Wine for its stewardship under the WineHQ umbrella. Today marks the Framework Mono 6.14 release as the first major Mono release in five years and the first under the WineHQ organization...