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While not talked about as much as the likes of the Intel Gaudi accelerators with their upstream Habana Labs kernel driver or the AMD Instinct MI300 series with their open-source upstream support too, back in 2022 Qualcomm did post an open-source kernel driver for their Cloud AI accelerator. That was followed by an open-source compiler and user-space stack and in turn the QAIC driver was upstreamed into the accelerator (accel) subsystem last year with Linux 6.4...

Qualcomm Cloud AI 100 "AIC100" Firmware Upstreamed  Phoronix

Linux version of RansomHub ransomware targets VMware ESXi VMs  BleepingComputer

UNC3886 hackers use Linux rootkits to hide on VMware ESXi VMs  BleepingComputer

UNC3886 hackers use Linux rootkits to hide on VMware ESXi VMs  BleepingComputer

Intel on Wednesday released version 1.5 of their Linux NPU driver, their user-space driver component for Linux systems in enabling the neural processing unit found with Core Ultra "Meteor Lake" processors and newer. This goes along with their upstream IVPU kernel accelerator driver for allowing a full open-source solution for AI workloads with the likes of OpenVINO...

Intel Linux NPU Driver v1.5 Released - Now Validated On Arrow Lake & Lunar Lake  Phoronix

This Cloning Trick in Linux Will Save You Permission Headaches  How-To Geek

While the Raspberry Pi 5 debuted last September, the mainline Linux kernel support for this popular single board computer continues to lag behind the state of Raspberry Pi's downstream kernel. SUSE has been working to upstream various Raspberry Pi 5 driver support while now Raspberry Pi engineers have also begun the trek toward upstreaming their kernel graphics driver support...

Intel Battlemage display drivers coming soon for Linux — functional drivers to focus on power efficiency first  Tom's Hardware

In addition to Mutter seeing Wayland DRM lease protocol support merged, another long-in-development patch series hit GNOME Shell this morning: accent color support!..

Merged today into GNOME's Mutter compositor is support for the Wayland DRM lease protocol to allow for nice virtual reality (VR) headset support for GNOME on Wayland...

GNOME Merges Wayland DRM Lease Protocol For Better VR Handling  Phoronix

AMD ROCm 6.1.3 update enables multi-GPU support, beta-level support for Windows Subsystem for Linux  VideoCardz.com

DRM lease protocol support finally merged for GNOME Wayland - great for VR fans  GamingOnLinux

It was just a few months back that Intel introduced a Gaudi "2C" variant of Gaudi2 to their open-source Linux driver. This variant might be for some export model or otherwise a hyperscaler/customer-specific revision or something along those lines. Now appearing within new Habana Labs driver patches for the upcoming Linux 6.11 kernel are patches for a new Gaudi 2D variant...

Intel Introduces New Gaudi "2D" Product Support To Their Linux Driver  Phoronix

For those continuing to rely on the GCC 12 series open-source compiler that was introduced as stable in 2022, GCC 12.4 is out today as the newest bug fix release...

Intel Lunar Lake, Panther Lake CPUs & Battlemage Discrete GPUs Receive Enhanced Support With Linux 6.11  Wccftech

Another weeks worth of random DRM-Misc-Next changes have been queued ahead of next month's Linux 6.11 merge window...