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Linux 6.18 To Add Detection For FreeBSD's Bhyve Hypervisor

Phoronix - Wed, 09/17/2025 - 18:00
A patch making it to a TIP Git branch this week adds Linux kernel support for detecting the FreeBSD Bhyve hypervisor, which will become important with today's growing server CPU counts...

Intel Compute Runtime 25.35.35096.9 Ships Newest Features & Optimizations

Phoronix - Wed, 09/17/2025 - 17:00
Intel shipped the Compute Runtime 25.35.35096.9 as their newest monthly feature update to this open-source GPU compute stack for their integrated and discrete graphics wares for providing OpenCL and Level Zero support...

Mesa's Zink Driver Achieves Hits Major Milestone For Workstation Graphics

Phoronix - Wed, 09/17/2025 - 16:00
Mike Blumenkrantz of Valve's Linux graphics team is the one who has been driving the development forward on Mesa's Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver. While traditionally focused on getting OpenGL games running over Zink, recently he has taken to optimizing Zink for workstation graphics...

Haiku OS Addressing Slow "git status" Performance Relative To Linux

Phoronix - Wed, 09/17/2025 - 12:00
The BeOS-inspired Haiku open-source operating system project published a new blog post to outline some of their latest development activity. One of the areas they have been focusing on in the performance department has been for addressing much slower git status performance compared to Linux...

Tyr Driver Being Submitted For Linux 6.18 As Rust-Based Arm Mali Driver

Phoronix - Wed, 09/17/2025 - 04:30
The big set of Rust DRM kernel graphics/display driver updates were sent out to DRM-Next ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.18 kernel. Most notable with this pull request is merging the Tyr driver, the new open-source and Rust-based DRM driver for Arm Mali GPUs...

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