XCP-ng as the open-source hypervisor built atop XenServer is preparing for its 8.2 LTS release while this week marked the availability of the first beta.

This XenServer-based open-source hypervisor is in the process of picking up many features for the 8.2 LTS release. There is a re-implementation of XCP-ng's UEFI support, Openflow controller access support with Xen Orchestra, experimental core scheduling, experimental storage driver support for Gluster / ZFS / XFS / CephFS, support for Intel

Intel engineers today sent out their initial Linux kernel patches for bringing up the company's forthcoming hybrid architecture processors.

For several months we have seen Intel open-source developers working on GCC compiler support for Atom + Core hybrid CPUs and other bits in preparation for Lakefield and Alder Lake as the company's initial hybrid CPU designs. Today though are the first Linux kernel patches being worked on for actually exposing the hybrid topology within the kernel and ultimately (pending further patches) to expose the information to user-space.

AMD has been sending out a lot of new Linux graphics driver enablement code recently for the Linux with the newest being the "Green Sardine" platform.

Green Sardine is for bringing up a new APU platform with their Linux graphics driver code. The new code treats the Green Sardine platform under existing Renoir family code paths but the principal code differences are for loading different firmware files on the Green Sardine versus Renoir. There isn't any other major alterations with the new Green Sardine code sent out today and still Vega-based

Following the announcement this summer of Intel Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX) as an exciting feature coming to Sapphire Rapids Xeon CPUs next year, Intel's open-source engineers quickly began with patches to LLVM and GNU toolchain support for AMX . Now Intel engineers have sent out their patches in preparing the Linux kernel for AMX.

Intel's big open-source crew has been doing a lot in preparing the Linux support for AMX while now reached the stage of the kernel-side work. The patches sent out Thursday afternoon

A proposal is being discussed over the possibility of beginning to make use of the Rust programming language within Mesa 3D for this open-source OpenGL/Vulkan driver stack along with the likes of Gallium3D video acceleration.

Just days after it was brought up that AMD is hiring Rust developer(s) for working on graphics driver tooling , Mesa developers coincidentally are also discussing prospects of Rust code within Mesa.

This Rust'ing Mesa proposal wasn't brought up by AMD developers but rather open-source Panfrost Gallium

While the Mesa "RADV" Radeon Vulkan driver's "ACO" back-end was developed and funded by Valve with gaming in mind to optimize game load times and help with delivering optimal performance, it turns out ACO works damn well for some Vulkan compute workloads too.

With the recent Vulkan neural network performance tests and the follow-up NCNN inference Vulkan tests on the AMD side they were already done with Mesa 20.3-devel where ACO is already the default and delivered strong performance generally against NVIDIA.

For a while now there have been references to "Vivaldi" as a new Chromebook keyboard firmware for future devices. References in Chromium OS repositories have pointed to expanded keyboard layouts and other new features with Vivaldi. Coming with the Linux 5.10 kernel is now a new HID driver for supporting some of the differences with Vivaldi.

This Vivaldi HID driver is for Vivaldi-based keyboards to be able to read and report the top row layout of these keyboards. This top row of keys with expanded function keys support relies