There was another MAINTAINERS file update merged overnight for the ongoing Linux 6.18 kernel. With the perf subsystem tool updates, which brought a new Python app for the in-kernel tree , there was another notable change.
The merge noted
Intel's Lead Engineer For Linux Performance Monitoring Is Leaving The Company
There was another MAINTAINERS file update merged overnight for the ongoing Linux 6.18 kernel. With the perf subsystem tool updates, which brought a new Python app for the in-kernel tree , there was another notable change.
The merge noted
Linux Driver Support Ready For Intel Panther Lake's NPU 5
Intel's presentation on NPU 5 was catering to the Microsoft Windows Copilot + experience and all the enhancements found over NPU 5 with Lunar Lake.
Linux Seeing First LED Driver Written In Rust
For Linux 6.18 merged was bindings for writing Rust USB drivers and a lot of other new Rust kernel code . Looking further out on the horizon, there's even interest now in writing LED drivers in the Rust programming language.
Open-source developer Markus Probst posted the patch series on Wednesday for the first LED driver written in Rust.
Intel's Open-Source Strategy Is Changing At Odds With The Ethos Of Open-Source
For the past 21+ years of running Phoronix and even longer than that being a Linux user, I have loved and consistently promoted Intel's open-source efforts and leading Linux support. Even through Intel's difficult periods of delayed and stagnate hardware launches, what had remained consistent at the company and rather legendary had been their open-source contributions. From the Linux kernel to compiler toolchains and hundreds -- if not thousands -- of different open-source projects over the past two decades have been advanced
Intel Announces Xeon 6+ For Clearwater Forest CPUs
Details during the Clearwater Forest briefing at Intel Tech Tour Arizona were rather light... Especially as for what's known about the cores already from prior events like Hot Chips and other Intel disclosures around the Darkmont E-core. But we do now know the branding: Xeon 6+ for Clearwater Forest.
Intel Showcased Panther Lake & Xe3 Graphics At Tech Tour Arizona 2025
In addition to announcing Clearwater Forest as Xeon 6+ , Intel also used their Tech Tour 2025 Arizona event for predominantly focusing on upcoming Panther Lake SoCs for laptops shipping in 2026.
Intel Teases New Inference-Optimized Enterprise GPU
On Intel's AI Execution Roadmap during the Intel Tech Tour keynote they shared a new inference-optimized GPU:
"Inference-optimized GPU with enhanced memory, bandwidth and enterprise-level inference"
It will be very interesting to see what this new inference-optimized GPU is
Intel IPU 7.5 With Panther Lake Will Rely On Closed-Source Linux Libraries
Intel talked up their IPU 7.5 image processing tech that
Intel Refrains From Commenting On Panther Lake Xe3 SR-IOV Support
For Battlemage discrete graphics cards I received confirmation over
OpenGL Mesh Shader Extension Merged
That GL_EXT_mesh_shader support was worked on the past year in tandem with mesh shader support for the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver and landing the necessary prerequisites upstream in Mesa. There's also been Zink driver work on OpenGL mesh shader support too .
This OpenGL mesh shader support was motivated in part by