Intel engineers are proposing that full support for the SYCL programming model be added to upstream LLVM. This is part of their broader oneAPI effort and embracing Khronos’ SYCL standard for single-source C++ heterogeneous programming from CPUs to GPUs, FPGAs, and other accelerators…

Source: Phoronix – Intel Proposes Adding Full SYCL Programming Model Support To Upstream LLVM

Intel continues to do a splendid job at ensuring the open-source GCC and LLVM/Clang upstream compilers have support for their new processor cores well in advance of products shipping. Beyond already having Sierra Forest, Granite Rapids, Lunar Lake and Arrow Lake support already in upstream GCC, today one of the Intel compiler engineers sent out patches for enabling the Clear Water Forest and Panther Lake cores…

Source: Phoronix – Intel Posts GCC Compiler Patches For Clear Water Forest & Panther Lake

The USB I2C / SPI / GPIO drivers for Intel’s La Jolla Cove Adapter (LCJA) are set to be mainlined with the upcoming Linux 6.7 kernel merge window opening at the end of the month…

Source: Phoronix – Intel La Jolla Cove Adapter “LJCA” Drivers Coming With Linux 6.7

Released on Sunday was uutils 0.0.22 as the open-source software aiming to be a drop-in replacement to GNU Coreutils while being written in the Rust programming language for memory safety, better performance, and a modernized codebase…

Source: Phoronix – Rust-Written Coreutils Increases GNU Compatibility, Adds NetBSD Support

Linus Torvalds just released Linux 6.6-rc6 and expressed his intention of releasing Linux 6.6 stable in two weeks unless anything wild happens as we approach the end of this kernel cycle…

Source: Phoronix – Linux 6.6-rc6 Released: Plan For 6.6 Stable In Two Weeks

Queued up this week as part of the HID subsystem fixes ahead of today’s Linux 6.6-rc6 kernel test release has been a rather embarrassing bug: unplugging Logitech USB receivers has for the past several months been causing the Linux kernel to crash. After a number of bug reports around this issue from unplugging Logitech keyboard/mice receivers to simply switching away on a USB switch with the device(s) attached, the Linux 6.6-rc6 kernel is carrying the fix and it’s also marked for back-porting to existing stable Linux kernel series…

Source: Phoronix – Unplugging Logitech USB Receivers Has Been Causing The Linux Kernel To Crash

Over the past two weeks there has been a pleasant uptick in new commits to Coreboot as part of enabling EPYC 9004 “Genoa” series platform support…

Source: Phoronix – More AMD EPYC Zen 4 “Genoa” Code Heads Into Coreboot

Next week in DRM-Next will hopefully see the patch promoting Intel Meteor Lake graphics to stable in time for the upcoming Linux 6.7 merge window. Ahead of that an i915 drm-intel-next pull request on Friday sent out more Meteor Lake patches while concurrently working on more driver enablement code for Lunar Lake…

Source: Phoronix – Intel i915 Driver Prepares Finishing Touches For Meteor Lake, More Lunar Lake Enabling

While Python 3.12 was just released earlier this month, already the first alpha release of Python 3.13 is now available for early-stage testing and evaluation…

Source: Phoronix – Python 3.13 Alpha Kicks Off The Cycle With New Deprecations