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Qualcomm Prepares IFPC Feature For Adreno X1-85 GPU With The Snapdragon X Laptops

Phoronix - Sun, 07/27/2025 - 00:37
This past week Qualcomm sent out a set of 17 patches for the MSM DRM kernel graphics driver for enabling support for the Inter Frame Power Collapse (IFPC) feature with the X1-85 GPU found in the current Snapdragon X laptops...

Linux 6.17 Sound Code Prepares For Upcoming AMD Hardware

Phoronix - Sat, 07/26/2025 - 21:47
Linux sound subsystem maintainer Takashi Iwai of SUSE submitted already the sound code feature changes ready for Linux 6.17...

FFmpeg 8.0 Preparing For Release In August With Many Great Features

Phoronix - Sat, 07/26/2025 - 19:01
We are just a few weeks out from seeing the release of the FFmpeg 8.0 multimedia library with many new features and improvements for this widely-used open-source software...

Linux's Modern NTFS Driver Will Now Correctly Handle Symlinks Created On Windows

Phoronix - Sat, 07/26/2025 - 18:44
One of the nice Linux kernel accomplishments during the pandemic was getting the NTFS3 driver upstreamed for that modern NTFS file-system read/write driver developed by Paragon Software. In recent times that NTFS3 driver has been seeing occasional fixes and for the Linux 6.17 kernel -- and perhaps then back-ported to existing kernels -- are some notable fixes for those relying on drives formatted with this Microsoft file-system...

Linux 6.17 To Support Arm's BRBE

Phoronix - Sat, 07/26/2025 - 18:33
The ARM64 (AArch64) architecture updates have been submitted ahead of the imminent Linux 6.17 merge window...

Intel oneDNN 3.9 Making More Preparations For Xe3, Nova Lake & Diamond Rapids

Phoronix - Sat, 07/26/2025 - 18:19
Released on Friday was a new version of the oneDNN deep neural network library maintained by Intel and the UXL Foundation. This library used by various deep learning applications continues preparing for upcoming Intel CPUs and GPUs...

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