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Fedora 42 Looks To Make Use Of The "Screen Of Death" DRM Panic Screen

Phoronix - Sun, 07/14/2024 - 18:37
While Fedora 41 isn't even out yet, early feature planning is already underway for Fedora 42 that will debut in the early months of 2025. One of the interesting proposals raised so far is for making use of the new DRM Panic screen functionality for a "Blue Screen of Death" of sorts for better presenting kernel error messages in case of kernel panics...

New Patches To Get More Qualcomm Lenovo Devices Supported By The Mainline Linux Kernel

Phoronix - Sun, 07/14/2024 - 18:26
Patches have been posted to the Linux kernel mailing list for getting various Lenovo devices supported by the mainline Linux kernel that rely on the Qualcomm MSM8916 and MSM8939 platforms...

The Most Interesting Linux 6.10 Features From MSEAL To Intel Xe2 Preparations

Phoronix - Sun, 07/14/2024 - 18:14
Linux 6.10 stable should be released later today. It's been a fairly calm week in the kernel world and thus Linus Torvalds will most likely opt for tagging v6.10 as opposed to doing a v6.10-rc8 extra release candidate. So with Linux 6.10 likely upon us, here's a reminder about some of the most interesting changes in this new kernel release...

GNOME 47 Alpha Released With Accent Color Support & Wayland-Only Build Option

Phoronix - Sat, 07/13/2024 - 20:51
The alpha release of GNOME 47 is now available for testing and comes with a number of shiny new features for this big open-source desktop update due out in September...

Patch Posted For Finally Reporting Intel Graphics Card Fan Speeds Under Linux

Phoronix - Sat, 07/13/2024 - 20:17
A patch posted for the Intel i915 kernel graphics driver finally allows for fan speed reporting with Arc Graphics and other Intel discrete graphics cards under Linux...

AMD Submits Final Set Of RDNA4 GPU Enablement Patches Aiming For Linux 6.11

Phoronix - Sat, 07/13/2024 - 18:55
Last week it was noted AMD would be squeezing in more patches for "new IPs" to "get them tied off" with the upcoming Linux 6.11 cycle. This is principally about RDNA4 support and sure enough on Friday more patches were submitted to DRM-Next...

Linux 6.11 I2C Brings Arrow Lake H Support & Completes Slave/Master Transition

Phoronix - Sat, 07/13/2024 - 18:47
The I2C host changes are ready for the upcoming Linux 6.11 merge window...

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