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Latest Linux Patches For Homa Posted: TCP Alternative With 10~100x Lower Tail Latency

Phoronix - Thu, 10/16/2025 - 18:43
Posted to the Linux networking mailing list on Wednesday were the latest patches for enabling the Homa transport protocol. Homa is the clean-sheet design aiming to become an alternative to TCP within data centers and capable of offering 10~100x reductions in tail latency for short messages...

Proposed Patches Make Upstream Linux Kernel Usable For The OpenWrt One Router

Phoronix - Thu, 10/16/2025 - 18:30
Announced nearly one year ago was the OpenWrt One as a router/AP that is "hacker-friendly" and open-source. The OpenWrt One is powered by a Filogic 820 SoC and features WiFi 6. This official OpenWrt device is manufactured by Banana Pi. While there is downstream open-source code available for customizing the OpenWrt One to your heart's content, the upstream Linux kernel support to date hasn't been full-featured...

Intel Proposes "SYCLBIN" As New Format For SYCL Device Code

Phoronix - Thu, 10/16/2025 - 18:15
SYCLBIN has been proposed by a longtime Intel compiler expert as a new way for storing SYCL device code for use as part of their GPU/XPU programming ambitions...

Mesa 26.0 Enters Feature Development With Mesa 25.3 Branched

Phoronix - Thu, 10/16/2025 - 17:56
The latest Mesa Git code is now under version Mesa 26.0-devel with the Mesa 25.3 code being branched overnight for what will become this quarter's stable feature release...

Mesa Gallium3D Driver Merged For Arm Ethos NPUs

Phoronix - Thu, 10/16/2025 - 08:50
Arm has been working on an open-source Linux kernel accelerator "accel" driver for their Ethos NPUs. That kernel driver continues being revised and under review for inclusion into a future mainline Linux kernel release. Already though a Gallium3D driver for Mesa has been merged for leveraging the Ethos NPU...

ollama Rolls Out Experimental Vulkan Support For Expanded AMD & Intel GPU Coverage

Phoronix - Thu, 10/16/2025 - 08:24
The ollama 0.12.6-rc0 software released this evening and with it comes experimental Vulkan API support...

Valve Developer Contributes Open-Source Driver Fixes For 12 Year Old Hawaii GPUs

Phoronix - Thu, 10/16/2025 - 04:40
Valve's open-source Linux graphics team continues carrying out great feats from getting NVIDIA DLSS working on the open-source NVK driver to enhancing Linux GPU driver support for hardware long forgotten about by the hardware vendors. The latest improvement from Valve's stellar group of open-source contributors are some fixes that benefit old Radeon Rx 200 series graphics cards that are more than one decade old...

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