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Intel IPU7 Driver Merged For Linux 6.17 For Webcams On Lunar Lake & Panther Lake Laptops

Phoronix - Fri, 08/01/2025 - 18:36
The media subsystem updates were submitted and subsequently merged on Thursday for the ongoing Linux 6.17 merge window. There are several notable media changes for Linux 6.17 but arguably most prominent is the IPU7 driver entering staging for working on web camera support for Intel Lunar Lake and next-generation Panther Lake laptops...

EXT4 Shows Wild Gains With Better Block Allocation Scalability In Linux 6.17

Phoronix - Fri, 08/01/2025 - 18:06
The EXT4 file-system enhancements for Linux 6.17 were merged on Thursday and bring better scalability to the block allocation code as well as fixing the file-system's large folios support. The scalability work can show some wild gains in select areas...

Framework 12, Clear Linux Going EOL, AMD EPYC Performance & Other Excitement In July

Phoronix - Fri, 08/01/2025 - 18:00
During last month on Phoronix were 276 original news articles and another 15 featured reviews/benchmark articles around our forte of Linux hardware. Even with the summer here there has been no slowdown in interesting hardware running on Linux and the pace of innovation happening around open-source software...

Linux 6.17 EDAC Code Supports Several Newer Intel CPUs

Phoronix - Fri, 08/01/2025 - 17:35
The Error Detection And Correction "EDAC" driver improvements were merged earlier this week for the ongoing Linux 6.17 merge window and with that comes a number of Intel hardware platforms now being supported...

Intel XeSS 2.1 Released With Frame Generation For Non-Intel GPUs But Still A Binary Mess

Phoronix - Fri, 08/01/2025 - 08:37
This evening Intel released XeSS 2.1 as the newest version of their Xe Super Sampling library with upscaling, frame generation, and low latency optimizations for gamers. Notable with XeSS 2.1 is that it introduces XeSS Frame Generation with Xe Low Latency support now for non-Intel GPUs...

Steam Beta Brings Fix For UI Scaling On XWayland

Phoronix - Fri, 08/01/2025 - 04:59
Valve is ending out the month of July with a new Steam beta release that has a few Linux-specific fixes...

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