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Updated AMD ISP4 Driver Posted For Linux With Fixes & Improvements

Phoronix - Fri, 10/24/2025 - 22:02
AMD's ISP4 image signal processing IP is so far just used by the HP ZBook Ultra G1a laptop but will presumably be used by more of the higher-end AMD Ryzen next-gen laptops. AMD engineers today posted their fifth iteration of their open-source Linux driver for enabling the ISP4 use...

Vulkan 1.4.330 Released With Five New Extensions

Phoronix - Fri, 10/24/2025 - 21:10
Vulkan 1.4.330 is out today with a few specification corrections/clarifications plus five new extensions...

Asahi Linux Still Working On Apple M3 Support, m1n1 Bootloader Going Rust

Phoronix - Fri, 10/24/2025 - 18:33
The Asahi Linux developers involved with working on Linux support for Apple Silicon M-Series devices have put out a new progress report on their development efforts...

New Code Allows VCE 1.0 Video Acceleration To Work On AMDGPU Driver For GCN 1.0 GPUs

Phoronix - Fri, 10/24/2025 - 18:22
Valve contractor Timur Kristóf for their Linux graphics driver team has been working on improving Linux driver support for old AMD Radeon GCN 1.0 and GCN 1.1 generation GPUs. This has been about improving the AMDGPU driver to fill remaining gaps in GCN 1.0/1.1 support with those graphics cards by default relying on the older "Radeon" DRM kernel graphics driver compared to the AMDGPU driver used by default with GCN 1.2 and later. Another feature gap for AMDGPU is now being addressed with Video Coding Engine 1.0 support...

Patina 13.0 Released As Rust UEFI Firmware Implementation

Phoronix - Fri, 10/24/2025 - 18:10
Patina 13.0 is now available as this Rust implementation of UEFI firmware. Patina has been working to replace the core UEFI firmware components in a pure Rust implementation to avoid the use of C code...

Linux's Kconfig Is No Longer Orphaned

Phoronix - Fri, 10/24/2025 - 17:55
Back in August, open-source developer Masahiro Yamada stepped down from maintaining the Kconfig and Kbuild areas of the Linux kernel. While Kbuild maintainership was quickly passed on, no one immediately stepped up to maintain Kconfig as the infrastructure code for configuring the Linux kernel builds. That led to Kconfig officially being orphaned code within the kernel but now that situation has been addressed...

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