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Intel Performance Counters Support Merged To Mesa For Panther Lake

Phoronix - Mon, 06/16/2025 - 17:52
The Intel Observation Architecture "OA" performance counters support has been upstreamed to Mesa for upcoming Xe3 Panther Lake integrated graphics...

Linux 6.16-rc2 Released With An Initial Batch Of Fixes

Phoronix - Mon, 06/16/2025 - 05:04
Following the release of Linux 6.16-rc1 last Sunday that capped off the Linux 6.16 merge window, Linux 6.16-rc2 is now available with an initial week's worth of bug/regression fixes. Linux 6.16 development continues in aiming toward a stable release around the end of July...

Linux 6.17 Looks Like It Could Go Ahead And Make SMP Support Unconditional

Phoronix - Sun, 06/15/2025 - 21:09
Back in May a big patch series was published for reworking the Linux kernel to make the SMP support unconditional. Right now those that happen to be running Linux in a uniprocessor (1 CPU core) configuration can build with "CONFIG_SMP" disabled but the proposed patches would make symmetric multi-processing support always present. Those patches took a step forward this week and could be merged for the Linux 6.17 cycle later in the summer...

The Latest X.Org Server Activity Are A Lot Of Code Reverts

Phoronix - Sun, 06/15/2025 - 18:59
The X.Org Server has been seeing a lot of commits this week... to revert bad code...

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