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      Rockchip NPU Driver "Rocket" Expected By Linux 6.18, Mesa 25.3 Brings User-Space Code

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 28 July

    The open-source, reverse-engineered Rockchip NPU driver "Rocket" developed by Tomeu Vizoso will soon be in the mainline kernel. The Rocket Gallium3D driver was also merged today for Mesa 25.3 in the user-space code for their AI accelerator support...
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      Linux 6.17 Power Management Refines Async Suspend/Resume, Adds More Intel Hardware

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 28 July

    Among the number of early pull requests submitted in advance for the Linux 6.17 merge window were all the power management updates as well as to related areas like ACPI and thermal control drivers...
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      Ubuntu 25.10 TPM-Backed Full Disk Encryption Will Be Considered Experimental

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 28 July

    For the past two years Ubuntu developers have been talking about adding TPM-based full disk encryption to the installer for those wanting to leverage their system's Trusted Platform Module 2.0 capabilities to enhance security. It looks like for Ubuntu 25.10 this October that support will finally be in good shape...
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      Intel Panther Lake Perf Integration Ready For Linux 6.17

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 28 July

    The Linux support for Intel's next-generation Panther Lake SoCs appears to be largely set with Linux 6.16 ahead of the Core Ultra Series 3 laptops debuting in the coming months. There are though a few stragglers of Panther Lake support such as the performance events code in Linux 6.17 only now landing the perf integration...
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      GNU Linux-libre 6.16 Fights Firmware In Nouveau, NOVA, Ath12k & Other Drivers

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 28 July

    Following the Linux 6.16 kernel release from Sunday evening, GNU Linux-libre 6.16-gnu is now available for that kernel downstream that strips out driver/kernel code dependent upon non-free-software microcode/firmware, the ability to load proprietary kernel modules, and carving out other bits of the Linux kernel not meeting their stringent free software standards...
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      Linux 6.16 Released - Better Performance, NVIDIA Blackwell Open-Source & Intel APX

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 27 July

    As anticipated the Linux 6.16 kernel was promoted to stable. Linux 6.16 now greets the world with various performance improvements, NVIDIA Hopper and Blackwell open-source GPU driver support in Nouveau, Intel Advanced Performance Extensions (APX) preparations, and many other exciting enhancements...
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      AMD Kernel Graphics Driver Exceeds 5.9 Million Lines In Linux 6.16

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 27 July

    The modern AMD Kernel graphics driver consisting of AMDGPU, the AMDKFD compute code, and associated infrastructure continues to easily be the largest mainline open-source driver. With the Linux 6.16 kernel debuting as stable as soon as later today, the AMD kernel graphics driver cracks the 5.9 million line threshold. In comparison, the entire Linux kernel source tree comes in at..
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      Linux 6.17 Introducing Support For The NVIDIA Tegra T264/Thor, New RISC-V SoCs

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 27 July

    In advance of the Linux 6.17 merge window expected to open soon following the Linux 6.16 release, all of the SoC updates have been submitted to Linus Torvalds for this next kernel version...
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      New Ubuntu Concept Snapdragon X Laptop ISOs Published - Your Mileage May Vary

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 27 July

    A few days back I wrote about Canonical releasing new Ubuntu 25.04 "Concept" ISOs for the Snapdragon X laptops with the new install images being re-based to the Linux 6.16 kernel and expanding the device support. But as I found out from my own testing, depending upon the laptop the support was still less than ideal. Since then there have been two more ISO releases and addressing one of my show-stopping problems albeit encountering another...
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