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Mesa PanVK Driver Seeing Up To 25.7x Speedup For MSAA

Phoronix - Tue, 02/24/2026 - 09:15
The open-source PanVK driver providing Vulkan support for modern Arm Mali graphics hardware is seeing big speed-ups in the multi-sample anti-aliasing (MSAA) performance in Vulkan tests as a result of new code merged today to Mesa 26.1...

Red Hat AI Enterprise: Bridging the gap from experimentation to production scale

Red Hat News - Tue, 02/24/2026 - 08:00
Red Hat AI Enterprise is now generally available, offering a unified AI platform designed to simplify the development, deployment, and management of AI-powered applications across the hybrid cloud. With this new offering, Red Hat provides a streamlined, cost-effective path to operationalizing generative, predictive, and agentic AI at scale.What is Red Hat AI Enterprise?Red Hat AI Enterprise is an integrated AI platform for deploying and managing efficient and cost-effective AI models, agents and applications across hybrid cloud environments. It unifies AI model and application lifecycles to in

Predictable AI: Announcing the January and February validated model batches

Red Hat News - Tue, 02/24/2026 - 08:00
The transition from AI experimentation to production-grade deployment is often the most difficult hurdle for an enterprise. At Red Hat, we believe that choosing a model should come with predictable outcomes, rather than uncertainty. Our third-party model validation initiative is designed to remove the guesswork, providing the guidance and predictability organizations need to scale their AI infrastructure effectively.The January and February 2026 batches of validated models are now available on the Red Hat AI Hugging Face page, coinciding with the Red Hat AI 3.3 release. These model releases in

Migrate your VMs faster with the migration toolkit for virtualization 2.11

Red Hat News - Tue, 02/24/2026 - 08:00
Organizations must balance the need for fast virtual machine (VM) migrations with predictable, low-risk execution. Red Hat has released the general availability (GA) of storage offload migrations in the migration toolkit for virtualization 2.11, included in Red Hat OpenShift. This update allows you to migrate with speed and confidence. Migrate with speed: Storage offloading is now generally availableStorage offload migrations are now generally available to help you move critical VM workloads quickly with minimal downtime. This feature uses your existing storage systems for smoother migrations.

Linus Torvalds Drops Old Linux Kconfig Option To Address Tiresome Kernel Log Spam

Phoronix - Tue, 02/24/2026 - 05:16
Following yesterday's Linux 7.0-rc1 release, Linus Torvalds authored and merged a patch to get rid of the Linux kernel's WARN_ALL_UNSEEDED_RANDOM Kconfig option. While that option was added with good intentions, on some systems it can yield a lot of unnecessary kernel log spam...

Qualcomm Posts Patches For New DSP Accelerator Linux Driver

Phoronix - Tue, 02/24/2026 - 04:00
The newest driver proposed for the Linux kernel's accelerator "accel" subsystem is named QDA and is a Qualcomm DSP Accelerator driver...

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