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New Linux Patches Enable The Snapdragon X1 Elite Powered Lenovo ThinkPad T14s Gen 6

Phoronix - Sat, 07/20/2024 - 18:34
With Linux 6.11 support for the Lenovo Yoga Slim7x and ASUS Vivobook S15 are upstreamed for some of the first Qualcomm Snapdragon X1 Elite powered laptops. But for follow-on kernel cycles you can expect yet more Snapdragon X1 Elite/Plus powered laptop support to appear with new DeviceTree additions. On Friday, Linaro engineer Konrad Dybcio sent out the patches for enabling the X1 Elite powered Lenovo ThinkPad T14s Gen 6 laptop...

Linux 6.11 MIPS Upstreams Realtek RTL9302C & Mobileye EyeQ6H Chips

Phoronix - Sat, 07/20/2024 - 18:09
With Linux 6.11 over on the Arm-focused SoC side there were three new SoCs and 59 new machines/boards added for Arm and RISC-V. The MIPS pull request was submitted overnight for this next kernel version and there is just two new SoCs being introduced...

KDE Developers Tackle The Five Most Common Plasma Crashes

Phoronix - Sat, 07/20/2024 - 17:58
KDE developer Nate Graham is out with a summer time update that highlights the interesting improvements made to the KDE desktop and related apps over the past two weeks...

Mesa 24.2-rc1 Released With Many OpenGL & Vulkan Driver Improvements

Phoronix - Sat, 07/20/2024 - 03:55
Eric Engestrom is once again serving as the Mesa release manager and today took to forking the Mesa 24.2 codebase followed by issuing the first release candidate...

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