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The Intel/AMD Laptop & Tablet Support Improvements For Linux 5.17

Phoronix - Mon, 01/10/2022 - 22:30
The x86 platform drivers area of the kernel remains very active in recent times thanks to the continued investments by Red Hat as well as growing IHV interest from the likes of Lenovo while also still having many contributions flow in from the likes of AMD and Intel. With Linux 5.17 are a number of driver additions and improvements for benefiting various x86 laptops and tablets...

The Networking Changes For Linux 5.17 Are Very Exciting

Phoronix - Mon, 01/10/2022 - 20:40
The Linux networking subsystem updates for the in-development 5.17 kernel are quite exciting as usual given how prolific Linux is from large servers in the cloud to running on enterprise networking gear down to Linux on small IoT hardware. Not only is there a lot of hardware driver action as usual but also some key performance/latency optimizations...

USI Stylus, LetSketch Tablet Driver, Better Apple Magic Device Support In Linux 5.17

Phoronix - Mon, 01/10/2022 - 20:06
The HID subsystem changes are rather exciting this time around of the new feature material for Linux 5.17...

XWayland 22.1 Planned For Release Next Month

Phoronix - Mon, 01/10/2022 - 18:59
It's been almost one year already since the last XWayland standalone feature release separate from the X.Org Server codebase itself while now the next feature installment will soon be out...

Linux 5.17 EDAC Driver Brings Support For New AMD Zen CPUs, RDDR5 / LRDDR5 Memory

Phoronix - Mon, 01/10/2022 - 18:21
With the Linux 5.17 kernel merge window formally open today, among the early pull requests sent out this morning were the Error Detection And Correction (EDAC) driver updates which is notable this time in preparation for next-generation AMD EPYC server hardware...

GNU Linux-libre 5.16 Brings More Firmware Cleansing, Deblobbing

Phoronix - Mon, 01/10/2022 - 17:30
Following yesterday's release of Linux 5.16, the GNU folks have released GNU Linux-libre 5.16-gnu as their downstream that removes/disables any code depending upon non-open-source firmware/microcode binaries, the ability to load proprietary kernel modules, and other cleaning in the name of free software...

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