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The New Rust-Written NVIDIA "NOVA" Driver Submitted Ahead Of Linux 6.15

Phoronix - Mon, 03/10/2025 - 12:00
For quite a while Red Hat engineers have been developing the open-source, Rust-written NOVA driver to in effect serve as the successor to the reverse-engineered Nouveau driver that isn't too actively developed in more recent times. But unlike Nouveau's extensive range of NVIDIA GPU support, the NOVA driver is intentionally limited to the RTX 20 "Turing" GPUs and newer where there is the NVIDIA GPU System Processor (GSP) with the firmware support to leverage for an easier driver-writing experience. The very initial NOVA driver code was sent out on Sunday for DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 6.15 merge window...

Linux 6.14-rc6 Released With More Panther Lake Additions, AMD Microcode Signing Fix

Phoronix - Mon, 03/10/2025 - 08:20
Linus Torvalds released Linux 6.14-rc6 a few minutes ago as we work toward the stable Linux 6.14 kernel release later in March...

AMD Preparing "High Precision" Mode For Upcoming Instinct MI350X (GFX950)

Phoronix - Sun, 03/09/2025 - 22:27
On Friday AMD sent out another batch of AMDGPU and AMDKFD kernel driver feature patches destined for the upcoming Linux 6.15 kernel cycle. One notable feature in this late pull request is introducing a new "high precision" mode to be found with the GFX950 target, which is believed to be the upcoming Instinct MI350X series...

Intel Preps Linux For "Platform Temperature Control" With Lunar Lake & Panther Lake SoCs

Phoronix - Sun, 03/09/2025 - 22:00
Intel's new Platform Temperature Control (PTC) feature is a hardware-based solution to manage skin and/or board temperatures of a device. Platform Temperature Control will adjust the SoC power/performance if the temperature thresholds are exceeded, which are programmed by the device manufacturer. But new Linux patches posted allow controlling the Intel Platform Temperature Control feature found with new Core Ultra Lunar Lake laptops and upcoming Panther Lake hardware...

More Apple Silicon Updates For Linux 6.15 Help M1/M2 Plus iPad / iPod / iPhone

Phoronix - Sun, 03/09/2025 - 19:48
Already queued ahead of the Linux 6.15 merge window opening later this month are DeviceTree support for Apple's T2 SoCs as well as other DeviceTree additions set to be mainlined. A third round of DeviceTree patches were sent out on Sunday morning to the Linux kernel mailing list for the upcoming v6.15 cycle...

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