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AMD Versal NET DDR EDAC Driver Ready For Linux 6.18

Phoronix - Tue, 09/23/2025 - 20:33
For further enhancing the upstream Linux kernel support for the AMD (Xilinx) Versal SoCs, a new Error Detection And Correction (EDAC) driver is set to premiere in the upcoming Linux 6.18 kernel for the Versal NET SoCs with DDR memory...

Mesa 25.3 Lands SPIR-V Shader Replacement Support

Phoronix - Tue, 09/23/2025 - 18:45
Merged to Mesa 25.3-devel on Monday is SPIR-V shader replacement support as a new feature for helping Mesa's Vulkan drivers in testing and debugging issues...

New Patches Optimize EXT4 Online Defragmentation For Better Performance

Phoronix - Tue, 09/23/2025 - 18:30
A set of 13 patches were posted today to the Linux kernel mailing list for optimizing the online defragmentation handling by the EXT4 kernel driver. The online defragmentation improvements for EXT4 can net a nice performance win with a very significant improvement in a variety of scenarios...

FFmpeg Lands Support For AHX, ADPCM Silicon Graphics N64 Decoder

Phoronix - Tue, 09/23/2025 - 18:20
Beyond the continued flow of new performance optimizations via hand-written Assembly, with the FFmpeg project it's also interesting to monitor their ever-expanding scope of supported audio/video formats. The newest to land in FFmpeg Git is support for AHX audio files...

Qt 6.10 RC Available For Testing With Native PipeWire Audio Back-End

Phoronix - Tue, 09/23/2025 - 18:05
Out today is the Qt 6.10 release candidate for this forthcoming toolkit release...

OBS Studio 32.0 Released With Plugin Manager, NVIDIA RTX Improvements

Phoronix - Tue, 09/23/2025 - 08:40
OBS Studio 32.0 stable is now available for this popular cross-platform desktop recording and screencasting software popular with game streamers and for a variety of other recording/casting purposes...

GNU Coreutils 9.8 Released With New Features

Phoronix - Tue, 09/23/2025 - 05:38
While the Rust Coreutils project has been generating a lot of interest recently from the uutils initiative, the upstream GNU Coreutils project isn't slowing down and today is out with GNU Coreutils 9.8 for shipping the newest features...

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