Jay is a new open-source shader compiler being developed for Intel's open-source OpenGL and Vulkan Linux drivers. Ultimately this Jay shader compiler should help in delivering better Linux graphics performance with modern Intel hardware.

Last year Alyssa Rosenzweig joined Intel who led work with Asahi Linux on their AGX graphics driver code and was a contractor as well for Valve working on the Linux graphics stack. With Rosenzweig's contributions to Mesa over the years was a lot of work on shader compilation and NIR, so to not much

For those that like to make remarks about AMD "fine wine" especially when it comes to open-source Linux drivers and/or nostalgic about feature work on really old hardware, to much amusement there are new patches today for the AMD InterWave ISA sound card from the 1990s.

While the Linux kernel is preparing to phase out its Intel 486 CPU support as Phoronix noted a few days ago, for some old but slightly newer vintage hardware driver activity is new feature work on the AMD InterWave

The Intel QuickAssist "QAT" driver for the mainline Linux 7.1 kernel is adding support for Zstd offloading across QuickAssist Gen 4 / Gen 5 / Gen 6 accelerators for Zstandard compression as well as Zstandard decompression (limited there to the latest Gen 6 hardware).

Queued up via the Linux cryptography subsystem's "cryptodev" branch ahead of the upcoming Linux 7.1 merge window is finally the patch to support Zstd using the kernel's asynchronous compression "acomp" API.

This Intel QAT Zstd support provides basic

Greg Kroah-Hartman, the main Linux stable kernel maintainer and typically viewed as the second-in-command to the Linux kernel development, has turned to new "gregkh_clanker_t1000" fuzzing tooling to help uncover new kernel bugs.

Piquing my interest yesterday on the Linux kernel mailing list was this patch series that began with:

"I spent the time exercising some new fuzzing tools on the ksmbd and smb code purely because it's something that is simple to set up and test locally

Framework Computer on Monday issued their latest update concerning the ongoing price increases for memory and solid state drives affecting the industry. There has been some more price increases, signs of some temporary reprieve, and then a bit of good news on pricing for select Framework hardware.

Framework Computer provided their latest monthly update on memory pricing amid the squeeze affecting the industry. They note that some costs have stabilized in recent weeks but it's likely only to be a temporary reprieve with an expectation of continued volatility and cost increases throughout the

It looks like with the Linux 7.2 kernel later in the year the AMD ISP4 driver will finally be merged to mainline. This driver is needed for the web camera on the HP ZBook Ultra G1a Strix Halo laptop and other future AMD Ryzen laptops.

Over the past year AMD has been developing this new image signal processor driver and going with changes to AMDGPU and other drivers for a very nice, modern web camera experience on high-end AMD Ryzen laptops. So far it's only been the

Introduced in Linux 5.13 back in 2021 was eXecute In Place "XIP" support for RISC-V that allows for the kernel image to be executed from ROM. The intent is on allowing the kernel to run from non-volatile storage like NOR flash that is directly addressable by the CPU and to reduce RAM usage. But after RISC-V XIP support is broken for months at a time, the feature is now set to be retired from the mainline kernel.

Last year RISC-V

It doesn't change too much in practice with how Mesa updates typically have been handled under Fedora Linux, but now it's officially documented: Mesa graphics drivers have a permanent updates exception so new Mesa versions can be shipped as updates in Fedora stable releases.

Similar to Fedora's permanent updates exception for the Linux kernel that allows new major Linux kernel releases to be shipped down to stable Fedora versions as updates, their Mesa packages now officially have the same treatment.

New Mesa versions have typically been shipped down to