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Intel Quietly Discontinues Its Open-Source User-Space Gaudi Driver Code

Phoronix - Mon, 12/15/2025 - 22:24
There's another setback to the open-source driver code around Intel's Gaudi accelerator support on Linux...

Igalia's Work Improving The Linux Kernel For Helping Steam Play Gaming On ARM64

Phoronix - Mon, 12/15/2025 - 22:03
Besides Valve funding FEX-Emu for x86_64 binaries to run on AArch64 Linux as part of their Steam Play (Proton) efforts in being able to get Windows x86/x64 games running on AArch64 SteamOS for the Snapdragon-powered Steam Frame, there is also work happening in kernel-space to help this emulated gaming experience on AArch64...

Kernel Graphics Driver Changes Already Begin Lining Up For Linux 6.20~7.0

Phoronix - Mon, 12/15/2025 - 19:15
Even before the Linux 6.19 merge window wrapped up this weekend with the Linux 6.19-rc1 release, there was already the first pull request to DRM-Next of the first batch of new material to be queued for Linux 6.19's successor...

GCC Developers Considering Whether To Accept AI/LLM-Generated Patches

Phoronix - Mon, 12/15/2025 - 18:53
The GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) developers now have a need to set a policy whether AI / Large Language Model (LLM) generated patches will be accepted for this open-source compiler stack...

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