Benoît Monin of Bootlin sent out a set of patches last week that would bring the Mobileye EyeQ6Lplus SoC to the mainline kernel support. The Mobileye EyeQ6Lplus is based on the MIPS I6500 IP with two cores
Mobileye Eyeq6Lplus SoC Support Being Worked On For Mainline Linux Kernel
Benoît Monin of Bootlin sent out a set of patches last week that would bring the Mobileye EyeQ6Lplus SoC to the mainline kernel support. The Mobileye EyeQ6Lplus is based on the MIPS I6500 IP with two cores
Ruby 4.0 Released With Ruby Box Experimental Feature, ZJIT Compiler
Ruby 4.0 is a big one with ZJIT as their new just-in-time compiler as a new generation of the YJIT compiler. The focus with ZJIT is on furthering the performance but the developers acknowledge that right now it may not be as fast as YJIT.
Ruby 4.0 also brings Ruby Box
Libreboot 26.01-rc1 Released To Support A Few More Systems
Libreboot 26.01-rc1 released for Christmas with a handful of new systems/motherboards supported and working to a successor for the existing Libreboot 25.06 stable release.
Libreboot 26.01-rc1 has support for a few new systems including the Topton X2E N150, Lenovo ThinkPad T580, and HP Pro 3
QEMU 10.2 Released With IO_uring Support For Helping Allow For Greater Performance
QEMU 10.2 brings a number of new features and changes including:
- On systems supporting IO_uring, QEMU's main loop is now based on IO_uring to improve performance and enable other new featues and potential future performance improvements.
- Replay Protected Memory Block "RPMB" emulation to the eMMC device model is added.
- Removal of the deprecated VFIO platform,
Snadragon X Elite Laptop Performance On Linux Ends 2025 Disappointing
As part of my various end-of-year benchmarking comparison articles for looking at the performance evolution of Linux is a fresh look at the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite laptop experience when using Ubuntu 25.10 with the latest X1E Concept packages, which includes taking the X1 Elite optimized kernel to the latest Linux 6.18 stable series. Unfortunately, there are significant performance regressions observed compared to a few months ago that just make AMD Ryzen AI and Intel Core Ultra laptops a better choice for Linux
Wayback 0.3 Released For Advancing This X11 Compatibility Layer
Wayback 0.1 was published in July as the initial preview release for this X11 compatibility layer. Wayback 0.2 came in August and since then there hasn't been much news to report on it.
A Recap Of The Top AMD Linux News Of 2025: Strix Halo, AI, Kernel Improvements
This year was another exciting year for AMD on Linux from their continued -- and increasing -- Linux kernel contributions to numerous optimizations from CPUs to their graphics drivers. The ROCm compute stack also deserves a standout mention for becoming much more fit this year and on a much more solid footing now for competing with the NVIDIA CUDA software stack
Linux 6.20~7.0 To Bring Prep Changes For CXL Soft Reserve Recovery & Accelerator Memory
Linux work around Compute Express Link ( CXL ) continues with many patches continuing out of Intel but also more work in recent times from
Qualcomm's Xqci RISC-V Extension Now Deemed Non-Experimental For LLVM 22
Xqci is a Qualcomm extension designed for RISC-V micro-controllers. Xqci fills in gaps of RISC_V functionality around embedded and micro-controller needs for interrupt handling, load/store differences, and various other new instructions. Qualcomm sums up Xqci as :
"This extension contains a lot of new instructions, for a variety of uses from simple bit manipulation instructions to memory
Page Cache Sharing Looks To Be Very Beneficial For EROFS Containers
At a time when system memory prices continue to climb, EROFS page cache sharing can offer a significant reduction in memory use for Linux servers. Currently when reading files with