The USB/Thunderbolt subsystem udpates were merged a few days ago for Linux 6.7. As Greg Kroah-Hartman put it in the pull request, “nothing really major in here, just lots of constant development for new hardware.”..

Source: Phoronix – Linux 6.7 USB/Thunderbolt Adds DP Alt Mode 2.1 Support, Intel LJCA

While Intel hasn’t released a new Atom SoC in years, thanks to the work by Red Hat engineers and others in the open-source community, even drivers for aging Intel Atom platforms continue to receive improvements. One of the areas of ongoing work has been the Linux kernel driver for the Atom ISP camera interface for image signal processing in supporting the web camera on some of these old devices. With Linux 6.7 there is yet more work on the Intel Atom ISP driver…

Source: Phoronix – Intel Atom ISP Camera Driver Continues Being Cleaned Up In The Linux Kernel

OBS Studio 30.0 was released as stable this evening as the latest version of this cross-platform software that is popular for screen-casting and widely-used by game streamers…

Source: Phoronix – OBS Studio 30.0 Released With Intel QSV AV1 On Linux, WHIP/WebRTC Output

The Intel-developed Turbostat Linux CLI utility for reporting processor frequency and idle statistics is seeing a number of feature updates for Linux 6.7 as well as new hardware support…

Source: Phoronix – Linux’s Turbostat Adds Arrow Lake & Lunar Lake Support, Table-Based Feature Enumeration

One of the great aspects of Intel integrated and discrete graphics is the broad support for Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV). Intel “Gen12” graphics back to Tigerlake can handle SR-IOV when there aren’t any firmware woes or other issues at play. There is SR-IOV support currently with the i915 kernel driver but Intel engineers are working to architect optimal SR-IOV integration into their forthcoming Xe DRM kernel driver…

Source: Phoronix – Intel Begins Sorting Out SR-IOV Support For The Xe Kernel Graphics Driver

While it was supposed to ship back in H1’2023, FFmpeg 6.1 finally released last night as the newest feature update to this widely-used multimedia library…

Source: Phoronix – FFmpeg 6.1 Released With Vulkan Video Decoding, VA-API AV1 Encode

It’s been an exciting week in the KDE space as along with releasing Plasma 6.0 Alpha, they have also committed to shipping Plasma 6.0 with the Wayland session being enabled by default…

Source: Phoronix – KDE Plasma 6.0 Is Enabling Wayland By Default, Initial Support For HDR-Capable Games

Bavarian Linux PC vendor TUXEDO Computers has introduced their first Ryzen 7040 series “Zen 4” Linux laptop in the form of the Pulse 14 Gen 3…

Source: Phoronix – TUXEDO Computers Launches Zen 4 Linux Laptop With 32GB RAM & 3K Display

Wine 8.20 is out today and it takes care of quite a vintage bug report… A feature request from 2010 to be able to register URL protocol handlers under Linux…

Source: Phoronix – Wine 8.20 Closes 13 Year Old Bug To Register URL Protocol Handlers On Linux

In addition to the many x86/x86_64 and AArch64 improvements this round for Linux 6.7, on the RISC-V architecture side are some exciting kernel advancements too…

Source: Phoronix – RISC-V With Linux 6.7 Gains Optimized TLB Flushing, Software Shadow Call Stacks

With recently picking up the Lenovo ThinkPad P14s Gen 4 powered by the AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U and given the recent release of Fedora 39, I found it to be a nice time to provide a Lenovo ThinkPad retrospect of how the AMD Ryzen laptop Linux performance has evolved the past few generations. In today’s article is a look at how the AMD Ryzen 7 mobile series laptop performance has evolved going back to Zen 2 for various ThinkPad models while all testing was carried out on the brand new Fedora Workstation 39 Linux release.

Source: Phoronix – AMD Ryzen Lenovo Laptop Linux Performance For Zen 2 / Zen 3 / Zen 3+ / Zen 4

Slint as a reminder is a Rust-written open-source graphical toolkit that on Linux uses Qt currently underneath. Slint has been making good progress on its goals and today marks the availability of Slint 1.3…

Source: Phoronix – Rust-Written GUI Toolkit Slint 1.3 Brings Initial Android Port, Native Styles On Windows

Vulkan 1.3.270 is out this morning as the latest routine spec update for this high performance graphics and compute API. In addition to the usual assortment of minor fixes/clarifications, there is one new extension this time around…

Source: Phoronix – Vulkan 1.3.270 Released With New Imagination Extension To Help OpenGL Emulation

Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia) is known for their work on the AV1 video codec and AVIF image file format while now they have released their first royalty-free audio specification…

Source: Phoronix – AOMedia Announces Royalty-Free IAMF Audio Container Specification

Since announcing AVX10 earlier this year, Intel compiler engineers have been quite busy preparing the open-source compiler toolchains like GCC and LLVM/Clang for this next iteration of Advanced Vector Extensions. On Thursday night the latest AVX10.1 work was posted for the GNU Compiler Collection ahead of its upcoming feature freeze…

Source: Phoronix – Intel Posts Latest AVX10.1-256 & AVX10.1-512 Compiler Patches For GCC

Recently there has been a fair amount of work done to clean-up the Intel/AMD x86 CPU microcode loading on Linux that has now been merged for Linux 6.7…

Source: Phoronix – Linux 6.7 Overhauls x86 CPU Microcode Loading

FreeBSD developers have been busy preparing for the release of FreeBSD 14 as well as making a variety of enhancements to this leading BSD operating system…

Source: Phoronix – FreeBSD Adding More AMD64 SIMD, Continues Improving Linux Compatibility Layer

While AMD officially supports a much narrower range of more recent Radeon hardware with their official graphics drivers for Windows (and Linux – as it pertains to their Radeon Software for Linux packaged driver and AMDVLK official Vulkan driver), thanks to the open-source community around AMD’s open-source driver code there are always nifty things that come about… As I wrote about earlier this year, an independent developer has been striving to bring Vulkan to the Radeon HD 6000 series. Yes, the 13 year old “Northern Islands” graphics processors…

Source: Phoronix – Terakan Driver Continues Working To Bring Vulkan To The Radeon HD 6000 Series

The IOMMU changes for Linux 6.7 aren’t particularly noteworthy besides adding SMMUv2 support for the Qualcomm SDM670 and SM7150 SoCs. But the IOMMU updates also take the kernel one step away from supporting Shared Virtual Addressing (SVA) on AMD platforms in the near future…

Source: Phoronix – AMD Closing In On IOMMU SVA Support For Linux

Valve just announced the Steam Deck OLED as an upgraded version of their Steam Deck handheld Linux gaming device…

Source: Phoronix – Valve Announces The Steam Deck OLED With Upgraded Display, 6nm APU & Larger Battery