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Patches Posted To Allow Writing USB Rust Drivers For Linux

Phoronix - Wed, 08/27/2025 - 21:44
An initial set of Linux kernel patches were posted this week for allowing USB Rust kernel drivers to be developed for Linux...

RADV Vulkan Driver Lands Untyped Pointers Support

Phoronix - Wed, 08/27/2025 - 20:30
Introduced earlier this month with the Vulkan API 1.4.325 spec update was the introduction of the untyped pointers extension with VK_KHR_shader_untyped_pointers and SPIR-V's underlying SPV_KHR_untyped_pointers for providing an alternative option to strongly-typed pointers. As of yesterday the Mesa Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" is now supporting this untyped pointers extension...

AI Is Now Being Used To Help Determine Patches For Backporting In The Linux Kernel

Phoronix - Wed, 08/27/2025 - 18:44
Generative AI "GenAI" is now being used in part to help determine the Linux kernel patches that should be back-ported to prior current stable Linux kernel releases such as the all-important Linux Long Term Support (LTS) branches...

The Former Lead For Apple Graphics Drivers On Linux Is Now Working At Intel

Phoronix - Wed, 08/27/2025 - 18:29
There's a follow-up to yesterday's surprising story of Alyssa Rosenzweig stepping away from Asahi Linux and that ARM graphics driver work where she led reverse engineering and development of the Asahi Gallium3D and HoneyKrisp Vulkan drivers within Mesa. She's now working at Intel on their Linux graphics drivers...

Latest NOVA Patches From NVIDIA Get The GSP Booting To RISC-V Active State

Phoronix - Wed, 08/27/2025 - 18:15
The NOVA open-source kernel graphics driver continues getting slowly built-up for the NVIDIA RTX 20 "Turing" and newer GPUs that sport the GPU System Processor (GSP) for easing the hardware initialization and management of modern NVIDIA GPUs within the mainline kernel. This Rust-written kernel driver now has patches pending for booting up the NVIDIA GSP to its RISC-V active state...

QEMU 10.1 Released With Intel TDX Improvements, Support For Compiling To WASM

Phoronix - Wed, 08/27/2025 - 18:03
QEMU 10.1 was released overnight as the latest iteration of this open-source machine emulator that plays an important role in the Linux virtualization stack...

With Apple M1/M2 Graphics Driver Code Working, Alyssa Rosenzweig Stepping Away From Asahi Linux

Phoronix - Wed, 08/27/2025 - 08:30
As another very unfortunate setback for the Asahi Linux project moving forward after Hector Martin left the project as did Asahi Lina pausing work on open-source Apple driver development, Alyssa Rosenzweig announced today that she is stepping away from the project following the successes in bringing up Apple M1 and M2 graphics drivers for Linux...

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