It's not complete HDMI 2.1 support but to much surprise hitting the mailing list today were official patches from AMD for implementing HDMI Fixed Rate Link "FRL" support for their kernel graphics driver. HDMI FRL as part of HDMI 2.1+ allows for higher bandwidth to support higher refresh rates and resolutions.

The HDMI Forum has long held up AMD from implementing HDMI 2.1 in their open-source Linux driver for not divulging HDMI IP that the forum doesn't want to make public. This

The ASUS ROG RAIKIRI II is a recently-launched wireless gaming controller for both PC and Xbox gaming. This is a premium controller priced at $160 USD and has been receiving positive reviews under Windows while now it will soon be seeing mainline Linux support.

The ASUS ROG RAIKIRI II features 1KHz polling, TMR joysticks, dual-mode triggers, micri-switch buttons, and USB-C / Bluetooth / 2.4GHz RF connectivity options. The ROG RAIKIRI II was developed alongside the ROG Ally gaming

Intel's upcoming Crescent Island product as a reminder is a new inference-optimized Xe3P graphics card with 160GB of vRAM and targeting enterprise AI workloads. Intel's open-source Linux graphics driver engineers continue to be very busy enabling the driver support for Crescent Island as well as making broader Xe3P improvements.

Back in Linux 6.19 was the very preliminary support for Crescent Island and that enablement work for "CRI" has continued in Linux 7.0, 7.1

Mike Blumenkrantz of Valve's Linux graphics team has ignited a discussion over potentially shifting some of Mesa's older GPU drivers into a new legacy Git branch in order to better support the more modern OpenGL and Vulkan drivers without having to worry about breaking the legacy drivers and to allow for better cleaning of the Mesa codebase. Among the drivers that could be impacted are the ATI/AMD R300 and R600 drivers and many smaller drivers.

Back in 2021 various old Mesa "classic

A lot happened in the Linux and open-source world during the month of April. Ubuntu 26.04 LTS and Fedora 44 shipped, a lot of news around age attestation/verification laws, the Linux 7.0 kernel was released, Linux 7.1 is bringing many exciting changes as well as removing of old hardware drivers, the Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition CPU was released, we began testing the Intel Arc Pro B70 "BMG-G3

Even while the Linux 7.1 merge window was still ongoing this month, the initial "drm-misc-next" pull request to DRM-Next was sent out for beginning to queue new feature material toward the Linux 7.2 kernel coming this summer.

Maarten Lankhorst sent out the first pull of drm-misc-next changes to DRM-Next, consisting of a few DRM core and user-space API changes plus various driver-specific changes.

One notable change for drivers making use of the DRM scheduler

Shotcut 26.4.30 shipped today as the latest and greatest version of this open-source, cross-platform video editor.

Following Shotcut's 26.1 release where hardware decoding was enabled by default and other improvements and then Shotcut 26.2 with more refinements, Shotcut 26.4 brings more nice enhancements for this one of the best open-source video editor apps.

Shotcut's timeline has been enhanced with symmetric resizing of a timeline transition, drag-and-drop

Due to Linux Mint moving to a longer development cycle with their next release not due until December, Linux Mint developers have decided to begin regularly publishing hardware enablement "HWE" ISOs with newer Linux kernel versions to provide better support for new hardware.

With Linux Mint having traditionally stuck to older Ubuntu kernel versions, this is a change that should have happened long ago but now is more pressing under Linux Mint's longer development cycles. The developers have decided to provide better hardware compatibility they will start publishing updated HWE ISO images