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FLYDIGI APEX 5 Controller Support Landing In Linux 6.17

Phoronix - Sun, 09/14/2025 - 18:32
The input subsystem fixes for the week were sent out on Saturday ahead of the Linux 6.17-rc6 kernel due out later today. Notable with this batch of "fixes" is enabling support for the high-end FLYDIGI APEX 5 gaming controller...

Select Qualcomm X Elite Laptops Seeing IRIS Video Acceleration On Linux

Phoronix - Sun, 09/14/2025 - 18:25
Adding to the list of feature caveats around the different Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite laptops and the varying Linux state is video acceleration support. But patches were posted this week by a Linaro engineer enabling hardware accelerated video playback for two X Elite laptop models...

Samsung Exynos 7870 Seeing New Open-Source Driver Activity For Linux 6.18

Phoronix - Sun, 09/14/2025 - 17:44
The Samsung Exynos 7870 Octa SoC released back in 2016 on a 14nm process and powered by eight Arm Cortex-53 cores and a Mali T830 GPU. Finally now for late 2025 there is open-source display driver happenings going mainline for this aging SoC...

Redox OS To Focus More On Wayland, "Redox Server" & Performance Over The Next Year

Phoronix - Sun, 09/14/2025 - 08:23
The Rust-based open-source operating system project Redox OS published a blog post today outlining their development priorities for the remainder of 2025 and then onward to 2026...

Linux's New "Sheaves" Per-CPU Caching Layer Showing Massive Wins For AMD Performance

Phoronix - Sat, 09/13/2025 - 19:00
Earlier this week I wrote about Sheaves as an opt-in, per-CPU array-based caching layer likely coming for Linux 6.18. The sheaves patches have been queued into the "slab/for-next" Git branch ahead of the Linux 6.18 kernel merge window. Patches posted now by Google are showing the Linux Sheaves code having a massive beneficial impact for large AMD systems...

Cloud Hypervisor Will Block AI Generated Code, Raises x86_64 VM Limit To 8,192 vCPUs

Phoronix - Sat, 09/13/2025 - 18:23
Cloud Hypervisor 48.0 is now available for this Intel-started, open-source and Rust-based VMM focused on modern cloud workloads. Cloud Hypervisor continues to tailor to Windows and Linux guests while emphasizing security and cloud-native workloads...

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