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Mesa's Rusticl Now Enables Arm Mali Panfrost Driver Support By Default

Phoronix | July 11, 2026, 4 a.m. | Original

A change upstreamed to Mesa by an Arm engineer now enables the Panfrost Gallium3D driver for Arm Mali graphics to work with the Rusticl driver by default.

The Panfrost Gallium3D driver has worked with the Rusticl OpenCL Rust driver already but to date has required setting the RUSTICL_ENABLE=panfrost environment variable for actually enabling the support, similar to other drivers where the Rusticl support has not been fully vetted and made official. But with the latest code for Mesa 26.2, Panfrost is being enabled for Rusticl

Pop!_OS Rolls Out Its "Frosted Glass" Desktop Style For COSMIC

Phoronix | July 10, 2026, 8:57 p.m. | Original

System76 developers have for the past number of weeks been working on developing a "frosted glass" appearance for the COSMIC desktop environment featured on their Pop!_OS Linux distribution. For Pop!_OS users this frosted glass feature is now available and will become more widespread for other Linux distributions once the next COSMIC release is formally tagged.

System76 CEO Carl Richell shared today that the "frosted glass" option is now available for Pop!_OS 24.04 users. Once updating to

Wine 11.13 Better Supports Input Pointers, Improved Keyboard Scancode Mapping For X11

Phoronix | July 10, 2026, 8:49 p.m. | Original

Wine 11.13 is out today as the newest bi-weekly development release for this open-source software enabling support for running Windows games and applications on Linux.

With Wine 11.13 there is better support for input pointers with Rémi Bernon having worked on a number of input improvements for this release. Wine also continues improving its X.Org/X11 support with Wine 11.13 having improved its keyboard scancode mapping for X11.

For those using Wine

KDE Plasma 6.7 X11 vs. Wayland Session Gaming Performance For NVIDIA On CachyOS

Phoronix | July 10, 2026, 11:45 a.m. | Original

With KDE Plasma 6.7 now having seen a few point releases to further polish this last version with X11 support ahead of Plasma 6.8 going Wayland-only, here are some NVIDIA Linux gaming benchmarks between the X11 and Wayland sessions on Plasma 6.7.2 using the popular Arch Linux based CachyOS.

Linux 7.3 Enabling Second Graphics Pipe For Modern AMD APUs

Phoronix | July 10, 2026, 9:32 a.m. | Original

AMD on Thursday sent out another round of AMDGPU kernel graphics driver and AMDKFD kernel compute driver updates to DRM-Next of new feature material ahead of the Linux 7.3 merge window.

One of the changes standing put this week is enabling graphics "pipe1" support for GFX11 APUs. This work is around enabling a second graphics pipe for modern GFX11-based APUs/SoCs, including RDNA3 and RDNA3.5 APUs. AMD Linux engineer Alex Deucher explained in the enabling patch :

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Linux DT Patches Provide Very Basic Support For Apple M3 Pro / Max / Ultra

Phoronix | July 10, 2026, 6:26 a.m. | Original

Upstreamed for the Linux 7.2 kernel was initial support for booting Linux on the Apple M3 SoC devices. But just the barebones suppport for booting with not yet any accelerated graphics or other typical function needed for daily use of M3 Apple devices on Linux, just booting to a console. Now this work is complemented by additional Device Tree patches for also booting M3 Pro / Max / Ultra devices on Linux.

Following that initial Apple M3 bring-up for Linux 7.2 and also some initial DT

HiZ Plane Optimization Merged For Intel Vulkan Linux Driver For Some Performance Benefit

Phoronix | July 10, 2026, 6:13 a.m. | Original

After two years being on the TODO list for a possible performance optimization, the Intel open-source "ANV" Vulkan driver has now merged an HiZ plane optimization that can yield up to a few percent frame-rate improvement for Linux gaming/graphics on newer Intel integrated and discrete graphics hardware.

Since August 2024 there has been a Mesa work item to investigate a HiZ plane optimization on Intel GFX12 hardware and newer. They have been setting a bit known to be advantageous to performance but disabled it

LLVM Clang Merges Initial Support For NVIDIA Rigel Core With Next-Gen Rosa CPU

Phoronix | July 10, 2026, 5:52 a.m. | Original

Earlier this week NVIDIA confirmed some basic details around their next-gen Rosa CPU that succeeds Vera. Among the public confirmation was that it will feature a "Rigel" Armv9.2-A core iterating on their Olympus core design. With the basic details published, NVIDIA immediately introduced Rigel core support into the GCC compiler . Now they have also upstreamed their initial Rigel core enablement into the LLVM Clang compiler.

Merged just in time for next week's LLVM 23 code branching is NVIDIA compiler engineers having landed their

Intel-Scaler-vLLM 0.21.0-b1 Delivers Latest Features For vLLM On Intel GPUs

Phoronix | July 10, 2026, 5:41 a.m. | Original

Released this morning was Intel's newest version of Intel-Scaler-vLLM as their Docker-based solution providing an optimized vLLM stack for execution on Intel Arc (Pro) graphics hardware.

Intel-Scaler-vLLM 0.21.0-b1 rebases against upstream vLLM 0.21 while also now experimentally supporting XPU graph with their software stack.

The new Intel-Scaler-vLLM release also adds support for diffusiongemma-26B-A4B-it, gemma-4-1

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Phoronix | July 10, 2026, midnight | Original

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