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Bcachefs Freezes Its On-Disk Format With Future Updates Optional

Phoronix - Fri, 02/14/2025 - 03:18
The latest round of Bcachefs file-system fixes have been submitted today for the in-development Linux 6.14 kernel. Besides fixes for the current kernel, it was announced today that the on-disk format for the file-system is now considered frozen in its latest development "master" branch...

Hector Martin Resigns From The Asahi Linux Project

Phoronix - Thu, 02/13/2025 - 23:56
Last week Hector Martin resigned from upstream maintainership of the Apple Silicon code for the Linux kernel. At the time he was still going to contribute to the Asahi Linux project's downstream kernel but in a surprise move today, he has decided to resign as project leader of Asahi Linux...

Linux 6.14-rc3 To Fix Platform Profile Support For Newer AMD-Powered ThinkPads

Phoronix - Thu, 02/13/2025 - 23:41
Submitted today via the x86 platform driver updates ahead of Linux 6.14-rc3 on Sunday are some Lenovo ThinkPad patches that may interest some users...

Google Releases AOM-AV1 3.12 With More Performance Optimizations

Phoronix - Thu, 02/13/2025 - 22:51
For those preferring the AOM-AV1 open-source AV1 video encoder over SVT-AV1, Rav1e, or other AV1 encoders, Google this week unveiled AOM-AV1 3.12...

Wayland Color Management & HDR Protocol Support Merged

Phoronix - Thu, 02/13/2025 - 21:25
As a quick follow-up to the article earlier today... The Wayland Color Management and HDR protocol support is now merged to upstream Wayland Protocols!..

Device Trees For Apple T2 SoCs Slated For Upstreaming In Linux 6.15

Phoronix - Thu, 02/13/2025 - 19:58
While there has been the recent drama over upstream maintainership over Apple Silicon / Asahi Linux code, Sven Peter is continuing to move things forward for the upstream kernel and this week sent out a set of Apple SoC DeviceTree updates intended for the upcoming Linux 6.15 kernel cycle...

NVIDIA Wiring Up Autonomous Performance Level Selection To Linux CPPC CPUFreq Driver

Phoronix - Thu, 02/13/2025 - 19:40
Similar to the Autonomous Performance Level Selection and Energy Performance Preference (EPP) support already found within the Intel P-State and AMD P-State CPU frequency scaling drivers for their modern processors, NVIDIA engineers are working on similar support for the CPPC CPUFreq driver that can benefit their Grace processor...

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