As I’ve written about a few times in recent months, AMD has been enhancing GPU support for use under Xen virtualization. Their interests in Xen weren’t clear to this point given that KVM virtualization tends to be the dominant solution these days when it comes to open-source Linux virtualization. Now it’s been revealed that the AMD GPU interests in Xen stem from an in-vehicle infotainment play…

Source: Phoronix – AMD Improving Xen VirtIO GPU Support For In-Vehicle Infotainment, Using RADV

UDisks 2.10 was released last week for this set abstraction layer providing a daemon and tooling around the manipulation of disks and storage devices under Linux…

Source: Phoronix – UDisks 2.10 Released With Native NVMe Support, LVM2 RAID

Thanks to Joshua Ashton of Valve’s Linux team, the Mesa RADV driver has added support for the VK_EXT_pipeline_robustness Vulkan extension as an efficiency win and will be beneficial for Steam Play gaming…

Source: Phoronix – Valve Makes RADV Driver More Robust For Gaming With VK_EXT_pipeline_robustness

In addition to Lunar Lake sound driver support in Linux 6.5 and the recent SOF update for Sound Open Firmware for Lunar Lake, Linux 6.5 is also bringing initial SoundWire Intel ACE2.x support that is part of the Lunar Lake audio capabilities…

Source: Phoronix – Intel Plumbs SoundWire ACE2.x Support, Premiering With Lunar Lake

Released yesterday was a new version of UPower, the FreeDesktop.org software known long ago as DeviceKit-Power and used as an abstraction layer for enumerating power devices on Linux and other platforms. The new UPower 1.90.1 release is the first update to this software in just shy of one year…

Source: Phoronix – UPower 1.90.1 Released As First Update In A Year

LXD as the open-source container management extension for Linux Containers (LXC) has long been closely associated with Canonical due to its founding and pushed along by the Ubuntu maker as one of their software offerings. However, it has to this point been part of the Linux Containers project except moving forward Canonical has decided to pull it more into their direct control…

Source: Phoronix – Ubuntu Maker Canonical Pulls In Control Of LXD

Here comes a very exciting addition to the Linux 6.5 kernel: the initial infrastructure has landed for scope-based resource management…

Source: Phoronix – Scope-Based Resource Management Infrastructure Merged For Linux 6.5

While it’s likely been years since most of you touched any Firewire devices, for those still having any old DV cameras around or professional audio hardware with an IEEE-1394 interface, Linux 6.5 is bringing improvements to its Firewire subsystem that until recently has been rather dormant for years…

Source: Phoronix – Linux 6.5 Brings Improvements To Firewire Support

Mozilla Firefox 115.0 official builds are now available for this notable update to this open-source web browser while also marking the new Extended Support Release (ESR) series…

Source: Phoronix – Firefox 115 Now Available With Intel GPU Video Decoding On Linux

The GNU Compiler Collection 14 (GCC 14) will feature support for the new RISC-V processor ISA vector cryptographic extensions…

Source: Phoronix – GCC 14 Adds Support For RISC-V Vector Crypto Extensions

Tejun Heo last week submitted the workqueue changes for the Linux 6.5 kernel and they include an interesting addition…

Source: Phoronix – Linux 6.5 Workqueues Add Automatic CPU-Intensive Detection & Monitoring

The libjpeg-turbo 3.0 open-source release occurred today for this open-source JPEG image codec implementation focused on SIMD instruction usage for optimized efficiency. While libjpeg-turbo has been a great open-source development success and has seen widespread use, its feature development moving forward may be limited due to funding gaps…

Source: Phoronix – libjpeg-turbo 3.0 Released But May Be The End Of Feature Work Due To Funding Constraints

The Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) changes were submitted today that are ready for introduction in the Linux 6.5 kernel…

Source: Phoronix – Linux 6.5 KVM Brings Guest Snapshots For RISC-V, AMD PerfMonV2 For VMs

GNU Binutils 2.41 was branched today in its Git repository in preparations for releasing this collection of binary utilities widely relied upon by Linux and other platforms…

Source: Phoronix – GNU Binutils 2.41 Coming With Intel AMX-COMPLEX + FRED/LKGS, New RISC-V & LoongArch Bits

Last year the USB4 v2.0 specification was published as the next iteration of the USB4 standard. USB4 v2 supports 80 Gbps transfer rates with USB Type-C active cables and the ability to handle up to 120 Gbps in one direction and 40 Gbps for the other direction. Intel is contributing initial support for USB4 v2 to the Linux 6.5 kernel along with initial enablement on their new Intel Barlow Ridge discrete controller…

Source: Phoronix – Linux 6.5 Adding Initial Support For USB4 v2, Intel Barlow Ridge

After being in development for more than one year, Perl 5.38 released today as the latest feature update to this programming language…

Source: Phoronix – Perl 5.38 Released With Experimental Class Feature, Unicode 15

Jonas Ådahl of Red Hat today published a new version of the Wayland-Protocols package that consists of all the stable and staging protocol definitions for use in the Wayland world…

Source: Phoronix – Wayland Protocols 1.32 Brings Three New Staging Protocols

The Virtual Function I/O “VFIO” changes were merged last week for the ongoing Linux 6.5 kernel merge window. This IOMMU/device agnostic framework has added an AMD CDX driver this cycle along with other improvements for this subsystem that is important to the Linux virtualization stack…

Source: Phoronix – VFIO In Linux 6.5 Adds Support For The AMD CDX Bus

The in-development GCC 14 compiler has added support for the MIPS16e2 processor ISA…

Source: Phoronix – GCC Lands Support For The MIPS16e2 ISA

Besides being curious about the Steam Survey results for indicating the size of the Linux gaming marketshare as an overall percentage, one of the interesting metrics we are curious about each month is the AMD vs. Intel CPU marketshare for Linux gaming. AMD has been on quite an upward trajectory among Linux gamers/enthusiasts in recent years not only for their Radeon graphics cards with their popular open-source driver stack but their Ryzen CPUs have become extremely popular with Linux users. With the new Steam Survey results for June, AMD CPUs are found on nearly 70% of Linux gaming systems polled by Steam…

Source: Phoronix – AMD CPU Use Among Linux Gamers Approaching 70% Marketshare