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Linux 6.16 Released - Better Performance, NVIDIA Blackwell Open-Source & Intel APX

Phoronix - Mon, 07/28/2025 - 05:31
As anticipated the Linux 6.16 kernel was promoted to stable. Linux 6.16 now greets the world with various performance improvements, NVIDIA Hopper and Blackwell open-source GPU driver support in Nouveau, Intel Advanced Performance Extensions (APX) preparations, and many other exciting enhancements...

AMD Kernel Graphics Driver Exceeds 5.9 Million Lines In Linux 6.16

Phoronix - Sun, 07/27/2025 - 23:26
The modern AMD Kernel graphics driver consisting of AMDGPU, the AMDKFD compute code, and associated infrastructure continues to easily be the largest mainline open-source driver. With the Linux 6.16 kernel debuting as stable as soon as later today, the AMD kernel graphics driver cracks the 5.9 million line threshold. In comparison, the entire Linux kernel source tree comes in at..

Linux 6.17 Introducing Support For The NVIDIA Tegra T264/Thor, New RISC-V SoCs

Phoronix - Sun, 07/27/2025 - 21:55
In advance of the Linux 6.17 merge window expected to open soon following the Linux 6.16 release, all of the SoC updates have been submitted to Linus Torvalds for this next kernel version...

New Ubuntu Concept Snapdragon X Laptop ISOs Published - Your Mileage May Vary

Phoronix - Sun, 07/27/2025 - 20:37
A few days back I wrote about Canonical releasing new Ubuntu 25.04 "Concept" ISOs for the Snapdragon X laptops with the new install images being re-based to the Linux 6.16 kernel and expanding the device support. But as I found out from my own testing, depending upon the laptop the support was still less than ideal. Since then there have been two more ISO releases and addressing one of my show-stopping problems albeit encountering another...

GNU Binutils 2.45 Released With Continued Work Around SFrame Stack Tracing

Phoronix - Sun, 07/27/2025 - 18:43
GNU Binutils 2.45 was released on Sunday morning as the newest version of this set of open-source binary tools...

AMD SEV Optimizations Ready For Linux 6.17 Plus A 10x Improvement For Intel TDX

Phoronix - Sun, 07/27/2025 - 18:29
There are a few AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization improvements on the way for the Linux 6.17 kernel worth noting...

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