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ThinkPads On Linux Appear Nearly Ready For Improved Trackpoint Doubletap Handling

Phoronix - Tue, 01/27/2026 - 19:10
Being worked on for a while by Lenovo engineer Vishnu Sankar is nicely handling support for double-tap functionality with TrackPoints on ThinkPads under Linux. The sixth iteration of this enablement work was posted today and is just documentation updates, so it's looking like this new TrackPoint doubletap code could soon be crossing the threshold for the mainline Linux kernel...

Updated Linux Patches For Managing Out-Of-Memory Behavior Via BPF

Phoronix - Tue, 01/27/2026 - 18:43
Being worked on since last year by Google engineer Roman Gushchin was the latest attempt for the Linux kernel to support managing the out-of-memory "OOM" behavior using BPF programs. It's been a while since there has been anything new to report on that front but published overnight is the latest iteration of those patches...

Picolibc Picks Up RISC-V Improvements, Hexagon Support & Better POSIX Compliance

Phoronix - Tue, 01/27/2026 - 18:30
Keith Packard published Picolibc 1.8.11 on Monday as the newest release for his C library designed for embedded 32-bit and 64-bit platforms. Picolibc continues tacking on new CPU architecture support and other features for this project that started out as a conglomeration of the Newlib and AVR Libc C library codebases...

AMD Radeon Linux Driver Introduces Low-Latency Video Decode Option

Phoronix - Tue, 01/27/2026 - 09:23
AMD's RadeonSI Gallium3D driver for next quarter's Mesa 26.1 release is introducing a new low-latency video decode mode. This lower-latency video decoding comes with a trade-off of increased GPU power consumption...

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