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Linux Sees Fixes For Its GD-ROM Driver In 2026 For Sega Dreamcast

Phoronix - Sun, 04/05/2026 - 18:34
Seeing new Linux patches for benefiting Sega Dreamcast devices wasn't on my bingo card for 2026. A patch series was sent out today for fixing the Linux kernel's GD-ROM driver for accessing media using the drivers on "real" Sega Dreamcast devices...

Mesa 26.1 Makes It Easier To "Fake" A GPU Reset Using LLVMpipe

Phoronix - Sun, 04/05/2026 - 18:23
As a small but interesting addition coming for this quarter's Mesa 26.1 release is making it easy to simulate a GPU reset with the LLVMpipe software driver. While seemingly mundane, this can be quite handy for compositor developers and other app/software developers wanting to more easily test how their code behaves when encountering a GPU reset...

Debian Is Figuring Out How Age Verification Laws Will Impact It

Phoronix - Sun, 04/05/2026 - 03:05
With age verification/attestation laws down to the OS level enacted by California and being decided upon by other US states, it's been a hot topic of discussion in the open-source world. For the Debian project that is strictly volunteer/community-driven unlike various commercial Linux platforms, they are figuring out how such laws will impact them...

Razer Wolverine V3 Pro & Betop KP50 Controllers To Be Supported By Linux 7.0

Phoronix - Sun, 04/05/2026 - 00:51
Ahead of tomorrow's Linux 7.0-rc7 kernel release, this week's batch of input fixes were sent in and merged. Besides a few small input fixes are also some new device IDs and quirks for hardware now to be handled by Linux 7.0...

Linux 7.1 To Expose AMD Zen 6's AVX-512 BMM For Guest VMs

Phoronix - Sat, 04/04/2026 - 22:28
A small but important patch that looks like it will be merged for the upcoming Linux 7.1 kernel is for enumerating AVX-512 BMM support for KVM virtualized guests. AVX-512 BMM is one of the exciting ISA additions with next-gen AMD Zen 6 processors...

AWS Engineer Reports PostgreSQL Performance Halved By Linux 7.0, But A Fix May Not Be Easy

Phoronix - Sat, 04/04/2026 - 19:36
An Amazon/AWS engineer raised the alarms on Friday over the current Linux 7.0 development kernel leading to the throughput for the PostgreSQL database server being around half that of prior kernel versions. The culprit halving the PostgreSQL performance is known but a revert looks like it may not happen and currently suggesting that PostgreSQL may need to be adapted...

3mdeb Makes Progress Bringing AMD openSIL + Coreboot To Ryzen AM5 Motherboard

Phoronix - Sat, 04/04/2026 - 18:50
In addition to 3mdeb firmware engineers porting AMD openSIL and Coreboot to a Gigabyte EPYC Turin server motherboard, the staff at this firmware consulting company are also porting AMD openSIL and Coreboot to a modern Ryzen AM5 desktop motherboard. They continue making good strides with that quest for the first readily-available Ryzen desktop motherboard with open-source system firmware...

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