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Linux Kernel Patches Posted For Enabling USB3 Support On Apple M1 / M2

Phoronix - Fri, 08/22/2025 - 04:38
In addition to this week seeing Apple SoC DT updates prepped for Linux 6.18 and Apple laptop lid events and power button driver patches posted for review for the mainline Linux kernel, published today on the Linux kernel mailing list are the request for comments (RFC) on patches for enabling USB3 support with Apple Silicon M1 / M2 SoCs...

AMD Ryzen AI 5 340 Windows 11 vs. Ubuntu Linux Performance For Budget "Krackan Point" Laptops

Phoronix - Thu, 08/21/2025 - 22:15
Earlier this month we looked at the Linux laptop performance of AMD's Krackan Point using the Ryzen AI 5 340 within a HP OmniBook 5 that can be found for as low as ~$450 during sales. For six Zen 5 cores and RDNA 3.5 graphics, Krackan Point worked well as a budget Linux laptop option. For those wondering how the Linux vs. Windows 11 performance compares for the budget HP OmniBook, here are some benchmarks.

Linux Driver Under Review For Apple Laptop Lid Events & Power Button

Phoronix - Thu, 08/21/2025 - 21:24
Following the recent Apple SMC driver upstreaming to handle rebooting Apple Silicon Macs under Linux, the latest code volleyed on the kernel mailing list for review is support for handling laptop lid events and power buttons. Plus Apple sensor monitoring driver support too...

Intel Compute Runtime 25.31.34666.3 Continues Prepping For Panther Lake

Phoronix - Thu, 08/21/2025 - 20:35
Released minutes ago was the newest monthly feature release to the Intel Compute Runtime providing open-source OpenCL and Level Zero capabilities on Intel graphics hardware...

VKD3D 1.17 Released With More Improvements For DIrect3D 12 On Vulkan

Phoronix - Thu, 08/21/2025 - 19:58
VKD3D 1.17 made its debut this morning as the newest version of this Direct3D 12 over Vulkan API implementation...

Panthor Open-Source Driver To Support Many More Arm Mali GPUs In Linux 6.18

Phoronix - Thu, 08/21/2025 - 18:27
The open-source Panthor Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) driver providing the modern kernel graphics driver support for recent Arm Mali GPUs will be supporting a number of additional GPU models with the Linux 6.18 kernel later this year...

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