A patch for the Intel P-State CPU frequency scaling Linux driver is pending to avoid confusing the processor firmware on newer platforms like Intel Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake" where Dynamic Efficiency Control (DEC) is supported.

Intel Dynamic Efficiency Control is a newer power management feature to optimize energy use under light workloads. But it turns out the current Intel P-State driver handling can end up confusing the processor firmware in the presence of DEC.

There continues to be a lout of cleaning up of the kernel source tree to deal with noise generated by AI / LLM coding agents sending in reports and patches for old drivers that are likely not actively used by anyone on modern upstream kernel builds. Rather than continuing to carry these old drivers around with the uptick in AI/LLM-generated noise, kernel maintainers are finding it better to just retire the old drivers.

In recent months we have seen a lot of old kernel code removed stemming from that AI/LLM noise

Overnight AMD engineers sent out their latest round of AMDGPU DC display code updates for their Linux driver. This week's round of display code updates include some additional fixes for their recently introduced HDMI FRL (Fixed Rate Link) support as part of the work toward their HDMI 2.1 implementation finally coming together for their open-source, upstream Linux driver.

Of the 34 patches posted to the mailing list overnight, there are some HDMI FRL fixes such as for restoring the FRL cap on non-destructive HDMI link

FEX 2608 is now available as the newest monthly feature update to this open-source emulator sponsored by Valve for running x86_64 binaries on ARM64, including Steam and Windows games with Steam Play (Proton).

FEX 2608 is predominantly made up of different fixes. The fixes include some changes to help with Wine usage, addressing possible overwriting of memory regions in the allocation tracking, fixing AVX signal state saving/restoring, and other fixes. FEX 260

AMD has posted patches proposing a new Linux subsystem for the Enhanced Serial Peripheral Interface (eSPI) standard that was in turn originally developed by Intel. With AMD now making use of eSPI, they are proposing a new subsystem for it within the Linux kernel, which includes a new driver for their hardware.

Intel originally developed eSPI as a communication protocol for linking to the BIOS, system controllers, and other peripherals like TPMs as an alternative to the LPC interface, traditional SPI, and other side-band signalling.

Last week the 3mdeb firmware consulting firm released the first open-source firmware for a modern AMD Ryzen AM5 platform with their work to port AMD openSIL and Coreboot in their downstream Dasharo flavor to an MSI desktop ATX motherboard. Now that it's working out well, 3mdeb is working to upstream their AM5 platform support and Phoenix SoC support into upstream AMD openSIL as well as Coreboot.

3mdeb firmware engineer Michał Żygowski today opened an AMD openSIL pull request in working to upstream the necessary changes for

Now this is a pleasant and very unexpected surprise... NVIDIA has become the latest premier sponsor of the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS).

Following Dell and Lenovo becoming premier sponsors in contributing $100k USD annually to the LVFS/Fwupd project and in May HP became the third premier sponsor , announced this morning is NVIDIA becoming the fourth company now contributing $100k+ annually to this project enabling open-source firmware updating on Linux systems.

As part of their motivation for this sponsorship

Last month the Linux Foundation launched the x402 Foundation to standardize Internet-native payments for AI agents as their latest AI play. That followed other "AI" initiatives from dealing with AI exploits to AI asset and data exchange . Today they have another AI foray being announced with the creation of the Tokenomics Foundation.

The Linux Foundation members continue ramping up their AI plays under the Linux Foundation umbrella with their newest initiative being the Tokenomics Foundation. With the Tokenomics Foundation they are working to define the economics and return on

While Linux's second-in-command Greg Kroah-Hartman does use AI / LLMs himself to success in the Linux kernel, given the "onslaught" of kernel patches produced by large language models and the intent on the Linux kernel's staging area being an area for newcomers to get involved, moving forward he's now rejecting AI/LLM-generated staging patches. But there is one exception and that is for genuinely valid security fixes.

Greg KH announced on Monday a new policy around AI/LLM