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Intel Updates Cache Aware Scheduling For Linux With Better NUMA Balancing

Phoronix - Fri, 12/05/2025 - 22:38
Intel engineer Tim Chen has sent out a second version of the proposed Cache Aware Scheduling patches for the Linux kernel to enhance the CPU performance of modern processors sporting multiple cache domains...

Venus Vulkan Driver Lands Mesh Shader Support In Mesa 26.0

Phoronix - Fri, 12/05/2025 - 22:03
Venus is the VirtIO-GPU driver that allows for Vulkan support within guest virtual machines permitting sufficient host driver support and other requirements in place with hypervisors like CrosVM and QEMU. The Venus driver now supports Vulkan's mesh shader capabilities and in turn advances the DXVK-Proton support for Linux gaming within VMs...

Intel Graphics Score A Big Win With Linux 6.19: Color Management & Xe VFIO Driver Merged

Phoronix - Fri, 12/05/2025 - 21:15
On top of enabling Xe3P graphics for Nova Lake and Crescent Island plus other changes like CASF adaptive sharpening for Lunar Lake and newer, another set of Intel kernel graphics driver updates were merged overnight as a big win for the open-source Intel graphics stack on Linux...

Linux NTFS3 Driver Will Now Support Timestamps Prior To 1970

Phoronix - Fri, 12/05/2025 - 19:13
While NTFSPLUS continues to be developed as a new and modern NTFS open-source driver for Linux systems, at the moment NTFS3 from Paragon Software remains the most capable NTFS file-system driver within the mainline kernel. For the Linux 6.19 merge window a variety of fixes have landed for this driver...

Intel Nova Lake Audio Support Merged For Linux 6.19

Phoronix - Fri, 12/05/2025 - 18:57
The sound subsystem updates were merged on Thursday for enabling a variety of new audio hardware with the Linux 6.19. Among the hardware standing out is getting Intel Nova Lake audio support in order...

Linux 6.19 GPU Driver Features: Color Pipeline API, Intel Xe3P, AMDGPU For GCN 1.0/1.1

Phoronix - Fri, 12/05/2025 - 09:23
The big set of kernel graphics driver features were merged today for the Linux 6.19 kernel. As usual there is a lot of new feature work on the AMD Radeon, Intel, and NVIDIA graphics drivers plus the smaller Arm/embedded graphics like now having initial Qualcomm Gen8 GPU support. Plus the growing number of accelerator "accel" drivers for NPUs / AI accelerators...

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