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FreeBSD Laptop Project Hopes To Port Newer Linux Graphics Drivers This Year

Phoronix - Fri, 04/03/2026 - 18:18
Developers working on the FreeBSD laptop initiative to make the FreeBSD operating system more suitable for running on modern laptop hardware have drafted their road-map of further action items they hope to accomplish in 2026...

Snapdragon X2's Adreno X2-85 GPU Sees Driver Improvements For Linux 7.1

Phoronix - Fri, 04/03/2026 - 18:08
Rob Clark on Thursday sent out the batch of MSM DRM driver feature changes targeting the upcoming Linux 7.1 merge window. This new work for DRM-Next includes enhancements to the Adreno X2-85 GPU support as found within the new Snapdragon X2 laptop SoCs plus various enhancements to existing Qualcomm graphics/display hardware...

Vulkan 1.4.348 Ships Four New Extensions - Including One To Help OpenGL Emulation

Phoronix - Fri, 04/03/2026 - 17:50
Vulkan 1.4.348 released this morning as the latest routine update to this high performance graphics and compute API. With Vulkan 1.4.348 comes four new extensions...

AMD P-State Driver Introducing New Features With Linux 7.1

Phoronix - Fri, 04/03/2026 - 08:26
A few Linux kernel releases have passed since there have been any new features to talk about for the AMD P-State driver for CPU frequency scaling / power management with modern AMD Ryzen and EPYC processors. But for the upcoming Linux 7.1 kernel there are some new features now ready for mainline...

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