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Redox OS Gets Vulkan & Node.js Working On This Rust-Based Open-Source OS

Phoronix | March 5, 2026, 10:27 a.m. | Original

There were some fairly exciting improvements made by the Redox OS developers over the course of February. They have the Vulkan API working on Redox OS for the first time along with more COSMIC desktop software and even Node.js.

The Redox OS project today published a blog post highlighting their accomplishments for the past month. Their February highlights include:

- The COSMIC compositor "cosmic-comp" is now able to run on Redox OS as a Winit window for proof of concept purposes. Input processing not yet working but it'

AMD DCN 4.2 IP, GFX 12.1 Updates For AMDGPU Driver In Linux 7.1 Plus GCN 1.1 APU DC

Phoronix | March 5, 2026, 9:51 a.m. | Original

AMD has begun staging AMDGPU and AMDKFD kernel driver improvements for the upcoming Linux 7.1 cycle.

Sent out yesterday was the first round of "new stuff" for the AMDGPU kernel graphics driver and AMDKFD compute driver ahead of the Linux 7.1 merge window opening in mid-April.

Included with this pull is enabling the Display Core Next v4.2 (DCN 4.2) IP. DCN 4.2 is for upcoming AMD graphics hardware but as usual for their block-by-block IP versioning

Linux 7.1 To Prevent Intel NPUs From Being Exhausted By Single Programs

Phoronix | March 5, 2026, 8:19 a.m. | Original

The Intel IVPU accelerator driver will be introducing limits on Intel NPU resource usage by non-root user-space programs beginning with the Linux 7.1 kernel.

In order to avoid situations where a single program could occupy all Intel NPU resources and deprive other programs or other users access to the Intel neural processing unit, the IVPU driver is setting default limits for non-root users. Root user-space programs will still be able to occupy all 128 available contexts and 255 doorbells for the Intel NPUs

AMD HSMP Linux Driver Preps For Zen 6 EPYC With Finer Power Controls

Phoronix | March 5, 2026, 6:25 a.m. | Original

The AMD Host System Management Port (HSMP) Linux driver that provides access to various system management features on modern EPYC server processors is preparing for the upcoming EPYC Zen 6 "Venice" processors.

Sent out today were a set of AMD HSMP open-source driver patches in preparing for Family 1Ah Model 50h-5Fh support, a.k.a. the next-gen EPYC server processors (Zen 6). The patches extend the AMD HSMP driver for new capabilities providing enhanced system management and the

Intel GMA500 "Poulsbo" Driver Still Seeing New Open-Source Activity In 2026

Phoronix | March 5, 2026, 6:16 a.m. | Original

Approaching twenty years after Intel's Poulsbo platform began giving Linux users nightmares due to its Imagination PowerVR SGX graphics IP that blocked open-source 3D driver support, the GMA500 driver that ended up coming about to provide open-source display support at least is still seeing occasional upstream activity for the Linux kernel.

Intel Atom Poulsbo in netbooks and the like at the time were a very sore spot due to their PowerVR SGX graphics IP. While since then Imagination Tech has finally become more open-source friendly

libavif 1.4 Released For Advancing AVIF Image Support

Phoronix | March 5, 2026, 5:44 a.m. | Original

The Alliance For Open Media on Wednesday released libavif 1.4, the latest version of this reference library for encoding and decoding AV1 Image File Format (AVIF) content.

This official AVIF encode/decode library continues being rounded out with more features and improvements. In libavif 1.4 there is now support for converting JPEG files with Apple-style gain maps, supporting some Sample Transform schemes defined by the AVIF v1.2 specification, support for dealing with PNG cICP chunks, support reading Sample-Transform-

Intel Xe Linux Driver Ready With Fix For Brand New Lenovo ThinkPad T14 Gen 7 Laptop

Phoronix | March 5, 2026, 5:35 a.m. | Original

This week at MWC 2026, Lenovo announced the ThinkPad T14 Gen 7 as one of their new Intel Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake" powered laptops alongside other products. With Panther Lake running rather well on Linux, the new ThinkPad T14 G7 should be in good standing on Linux and especially with a pending Xe graphics driver fix that is on the way.

The ThinkPad T14 Gen 7 will begin shipping soon and looks like will be another Lenovo product enjoying good Linux support

Notice: Brief Downtime Expected Overnight

Phoronix | March 4, 2026, 9 p.m. | Original

Just a heads up that some brief downtime to Phoronix.com is expected overnight during the replacement of an NVMe drive in the RAID array for this web server.

Starting at around 1:00 AM PST / 4:00 AM EST / 9:00 GMT, the main Phoronix.com web server may be down for up to one hour. One of the drives in the RAID array is indicating its SMART estimated endurance has been exhausted. Unfortunately, it's an internal NVMe solid state drive and

FEX 2603 Released With A Partial Fix For The Steam GUI Crashing On AArch64

Phoronix | March 4, 2026, 8:21 p.m. | Original

FEX 2603 as the Valve-sponsored open-source project allowing Linux x86/x86_64 binaries to run on AArch64 Linux -- including the likes of Steam and various games as will become important with the Steam Frame -- is now out with its newest monthly release.

Important this month in FEX 2603 is partially addressing the Steam web helper process crashing. This ended up being due to a Chromium CEF update not jiving well with FEX at the moment

Intel Begins Preparations For Xe3P Upstreaming To Open-Source OpenGL & Vulkan Drivers

Phoronix | March 4, 2026, 4:11 p.m. | Original

Following the mainline Linux kernel beginning to see Xe3P graphics enablement for upcoming Nova Lake integrated graphics as well as the Crescent Island AI inference accelerator, Intel's Mesa OpenGL "Iris" and Vulkan "ANV" drivers are preparing to begin laying out their Xe3P driver support.

For going along with the ongoing Xe kernel mode driver work, Intel graphics driver engineers are preparing to roll-out the Xe3P support across their Mesa Vulkan and OpenGL drivers. Merged to Mesa was beginning to layout the GenXML

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