GCC Git Enables Additional Tuning For AMD Zen 6
In addition to Intel adjusting their Nova Lake and Diamond Rapids targets in GCC this week to deal with APX realities, AMD this week also adjusted some tuning bits for their Zen…
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RADV Vulkan Driver Adds Memory Protection Using AMD Trusted Memory Zone
…Vulkan memory allocations support the notion of protected memory and unprotected memory. The protected memory use-case for graphics is most commonly associated with Digital Rights Management (DRM) content or securely dealing…
Linux 7.2 sched_ext Continues Working Toward Sub-Scheduler Support
…attached to the cgroup hierarchy for dealing with different workloads on the system. This sub-scheduler support could become extremely valuable for multi-tenant platforms and heterogeneous workload environments. With Linux 7…
New Media Drivers Merged For Linux 7.1
…The UVC driver needed some additional metadata format bits added for properly dealing with the RealSense depth and sensor information. Additionally, the UVC video driver added P010 pixel format support. The MIPI…
AI/LLM Patch Craziness Having An Impact On ARM64 Linux Kernel Development
…From the burden of having to deal with more patches due to AI/LLM generation and not necessarily relevant or pressing patches to legitimate issues raised during code review by the likes…
Shotcut 26.4 Released With Timeline Improvements, Vulkan Accelerated Speech-To-Text
…improved timeline zoom, and reduced memory usage when dealing with timeline waveforms. Since Shotcut 24.10 in 2024 there has been Whipser.cpp for text-to-speech support with the OpenAI's…
VKD3D-Proton 3.0.1 Brings More Improvements For Direct3D 12 On Vulkan
…now supported for smoother frame pacing, Independent Devices feature is now supported, there is support for the AGS WMMA operations needed for FSR4 Ray Reconstruction and Denoiser, new interfaces for dealing with…
Qt Creator 20 IDE Released With AI Agent Support
…This updated cross-platform IDE has also updated its Clangd C++ code model from LLVM 22.1.2, support for opening Generate Ninja (GN) projects, and various other improvements. Downloads and more…
Linux 7.1 Supports Newer Logitech Bluetooth Keyboards, Malicious Input Hardware Sanitization
Linux 7.1 Supports Newer Logitech Bluetooth Keyboards, Malicious Input Hardware Sanitization Written by Michael Larabel in Hardware on 15 May 2026 at 06:18 AM EDT. Add A Comment Ahead of…
Intel To Support DRM Background Color Property With Linux 7.2
…property support was sent out as part of yesterday's drm-intel-next pull request of new material for Linux 7.2. Plus there has been other display code refactoring and other…