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Intel Panther Lake GSC Firmware Published Ahead Of Laptop Availability

Phoronix - Wed, 01/14/2026 - 21:49
While Intel has been upstreaming various Panther Lake firmware bits to linux-firmware.git for pairing with their open-source kernel drivers ahead of Core Ultra Series 3 laptops shipping, one piece of the puzzle only published today is the GSC firmware for the Panther Lake graphics...

Intel Compute Runtime Updated With Initial Crescent Island & Nova Lake S Support

Phoronix - Wed, 01/14/2026 - 19:27
The Intel Compute Runtime 26.01.36711.4 was published today as their first release of 2026 for this open-source GPU compute stack providing Level Zero and OpenCL support across their range of graphics hardware going back to Tiger Lake. Notable with this new Compute Runtime release is having now production-ready Panther Lake support while also introducing early support for next-generation hardware...

XWayland RandR Improvements Merged For Kicking Off 2026 X.Org Server Activity

Phoronix - Wed, 01/14/2026 - 19:10
Michel Dänzer of Red Hat has kicked off 2026 xorg-server activity with landing a patch series enhancing the Resize and Rotate (RandR) extension support under XWayland for improving mode handling by X11 clients...

New "Thames" Linux Accelerator Driver Posted Along With Companion Gallium3D Driver

Phoronix - Wed, 01/14/2026 - 18:55
Tomeu Vizoso as the open-source developer behind the "Rocket" driver for reverse-engineered Rockchip NPU support, Teflon as a Mesa framework for TensorFlow Lite and NPU uses, and various Etnaviv driver work, has announced his newest creation: Thames...

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