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Apple SMC Power Driver Posted For Linux Kernel To Finally Expose Battery Stats

Phoronix - Mon, 01/05/2026 - 22:56
The newest open-source Apple Silicon driver being submitted for review in working toward its inclusion in the mainline Linux kernel is the Apple Silicon SMC power driver for being able to expose MacBook battery power metrics as well as AC power adapter status reporting under Linux...

Patches Posted Seeking To Mainline Support For The Acer Swift SFA14-11 Snapdragon Laptop

Phoronix - Mon, 01/05/2026 - 22:13
Patches posted to the Linux kernel mailing list are hoping to provide mainline support for the Acer Swift SFA14-11 laptop powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon X1 Elite X1E78100 SoC...

Intel Xe Driver Preps THP Support For "Significant" SVM Performance Gains

Phoronix - Mon, 01/05/2026 - 21:22
Intel engineer Francois Dugast today sent out the new patch series for enabling Transparent Hugepages (THP) support within the drm_pagemap code with a focus on the Intel Xe kernel driver usage. This enabling of THP support and in turn 2MB pages by the Xe driver is yielding "significant" performance improvements when using Shared Virtual Memory (SVM) such as for GPU compute workloads...

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