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Select Qualcomm X Elite Laptops Seeing IRIS Video Acceleration On Linux

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 September

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...

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FLYDIGI APEX 5 Controller Support Landing In Linux 6.17

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 September

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...

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

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 September

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...

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

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13 September

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...

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

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13 September

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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62 Patches Posted For Stripping Classic Initrd Support From The Linux Kernel

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13 September

Last month I wrote about initrd support potentially being on its way out of the Linux kernel. For years Linux developers have wanted to phase out the classic initial RAM disk support from the Linux kernel and it looks like that day may finally be near with patches having been posted for removing the support...

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libadwaita 1.8 Released Ahead Of GNOME 49

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13 September

Ahead of the GNOME 49 stable release expected on Wednesday, libadwaita 1.8 released this week to incorporate all the enhancements made over the past six months to this GTK4 library that provides GNOME-specific widgets and features...

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Intel Loses Another Prominent Linux Engineer - Now Going To NVIDIA

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13 September

In the past few months at Intel between layoffs / corporate reorganizations and some deciding to pursue job opportunities elsewhere, there have been unfortunate impacts to their Linux engineering resources. Intel over the summer lost some prominent Linux engineering talent and in turn has even led to upstream Linux drivers being orphaned along with other driver maintainers departing and various other staffing changes. Unfortunate for Intel, another notable Linux name has left the company...

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Wine 10.15 Released With Initial NTSYNC Usage, Unicode 17.0 Support

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 September

Wine 10.15 is out today as the newest bi-weekly development release of this open-source software for running Windows games and applications on Linux as well as powering Valve's Proton for Steam Play...

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