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Initial AMD GFX13 Target Merged To LLVM 23 Git - Presumably RDNA5

Phoronix - Mon, 01/26/2026 - 21:23
Added to the LLVM 23 Git codebase minutes ago is a pull request adding the initial AMDGPU GFX13 target for their next-generation graphics core IP. AMD GFX13 is presumably for RDNA5...

AMDGPU Patches Updated For HDMI Gaming Features On Linux With Radeon Graphics

Phoronix - Mon, 01/26/2026 - 19:20
A patch series posted last week for the open-source AMDGPU kernel driver implements HDMI Variable Rate Refresh "VRR" and other gaming features for HDMI displays. With the HDMI Forum blocking HDMI 2.1 open-source support, these HDMI gaming features for the AMDGPU driver were developed via trial-and-error and the limited public knowledge available. A second iteration of these patches are now available for testing...

LG Gram Style 14 Laptop To See Working Speaker Support With Linux 7.0

Phoronix - Mon, 01/26/2026 - 18:52
For the Intel-powered LG Gram Style 14 laptop one of the Linux support caveats is the internal speakers not working properly under Linux, but with a patch expected for the upcoming Linux 6.20~7.0 kernel cycle it will finally fix the laptop speaker support for one of the laptop models in this series...

ASRock Rack PAUL PCIe IPMI Card Sees DT Patches For The Mainline Linux Kernel

Phoronix - Mon, 01/26/2026 - 18:38
ASRock Rack's PAUL is a low-profile PCIe IPMI card built around the widely-used ASPEED AST2500 controller for providing IPMI/BMC capabilities for any platform. New patches provide mainline Linux kernel support for ASRock Rack PAUL with the necessary Device Tree bits...

New Patches Aim To Lower Linux Memory Use For Swap, Slightly Improve Performance

Phoronix - Mon, 01/26/2026 - 18:27
Kairui Song of Tencent sent out a new patch series overnight working on enhancing the Linux kernel's swap code. With the patches there are some memory savings -- and more on the way -- while also providing for slightly faster performance...

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