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Linux Begins Preparing For The Lenovo Legion Go 2 Handheld

Phoronix - Thu, 07/31/2025 - 08:50
In recent days there have been an increasing flow of leaks surrounding the Legion Go 2 as the next-generation handheld from Lenovo. The Lenovo Legion Go 2 is reported to be launching later this year with an AMD Ryzen Z2 Extreme SoC, 144Hz OLED display, and a variety of other hardware upgrades over the original Lenovo Legion Go. Linux driver activity around the Legion Go 2 has begun...

Linux 6.17 Lands New Driver To Power On The T-HEAD TH1520 RISC-V SoC's GPU

Phoronix - Thu, 07/31/2025 - 08:34
The Linux 6.17 kernel has merged a new driver for powering up the Imagination PowerVR-based graphics processor found within the Alibaba T-HEAD TH1520 RISC-V SoC. This power sequencing driver is just for being able to power-up the GPU before the actual graphics driver can takeover...

Mesa 25.2-rc3 Released With RADV Vulkan Video Fixes, NVK Conformance Update

Phoronix - Thu, 07/31/2025 - 04:29
The third weekly release candidate of Mesa 25.2 is now available for testing ahead of its planned stable release in August...

Linux's Landlock Security Module Lands New Maintainers To Avoid Bit Rot

Phoronix - Thu, 07/31/2025 - 03:20
Upstreamed to the Linux kernel back in 2021 was Landlock as a new means of unprivileged application sandboxing. It aimed to be very powerful and since being upstreamed four years ago has seen some minor enhancements and fixes but has been without any formal code maintainer. Thankfully two developers have stepped up to oversee this Linux security module going foreward...

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