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Intel USBIO USB IO Expander Drivers Expected To Be Merged For Linux 6.18

Phoronix | Sept. 16, 2025, 3 a.m. | Original

Queued up in the past few days to the USB subsystem's "usb-next" Git branch are the Intel USBIO drivers for Linux 6.18. These drivers are needed to support the web cameras on various newer Intel laptop models.

With Linux 6.17 there was the Intel IPU7 driver merged for supporting various webcams on Lunar Lake and upcoming Panther Lake laptops. Another piece of the increasingly complex laptop web camera puzzle is set to be merged for Linux 6.18 and that is the

Linux Patches Posted For Enabling The Tenstorrent Blackhole SoC

Phoronix | Sept. 16, 2025, midnight | Original

Patches were posted this past weekend for enabling the mainline Linux kernel to run on the Tenstorrent Blackwhole SoC of A0 silicon on the Blackhole P100 and P150 PCIe accelerator cards.

The Tenstorrent Blackhole SoC is made up of four RISC-V CPU tiles of four SiFive X280 cores. Each time in turn can run an instance of Linux.

Tenstorrent maintains a "Linux on Blackhole" project for letting users boot Linux on the Blackhole PCIe cards. Compared to the downstream project from Tenstorrent

Godot 4.5 Open-Source Game Engine Released With A Multitude Of Improvements

Phoronix | Sept. 15, 2025, 6:24 p.m. | Original

Godot 4.5 is out today as the latest update to this leading open-source and cross platform game engine.

Godot 4.5 ships with stencil buffer support, built-in screen reader support for better accessibility, shader baker for better shader compilation handling to speed-up otherwise long start-up times, physics improvements, and more.

AMD ABMC Expected To Go Upstream For Linux 6.18

Phoronix | Sept. 15, 2025, 5 p.m. | Original

After being in the works for the past two years and going through 18+ rounds of code review, AMD ABMC looks poised to be mainlined for the upcoming Linux 6.18 kernel.

AMD ABMC is short for the Assignable Bandwidth Monitoring Counters. ABMC allows for full control over the L3 bandwidth monitoring resources in the QOS Domain. The "assignable" aspect is that system software can assign the bandwidth counters to a particular source RMID/COS for tracking the memory bandwidth of that particular source.

AMD ABMC took

AOMedia To Release AV2 Video Codec At Year's End

Phoronix | Sept. 15, 2025, 3:40 p.m. | Original

The Alliance for Open Media announced today that they will be launching the next-generation AV2 video codec at the end of 2025.

AOMedia committed to announcing the AV2 video codec at the end of the year for this successor to the very popular and powerful AV1 codec.

"Set for a year-end release, AV2 is not only an upgrade to the widely adopted AV1 but also a foundational piece of AOMedia’s future tech stack.

AV2, a generation leap in open

AMD Officially Confirms The End Of The AMDVLK Driver

Phoronix | Sept. 15, 2025, 3:28 p.m. | Original

To no real surprise given the happenings (or there the lack of) the past few months, AMD formally announced publicly today that their open-source AMDVLK driver has been discontinued in favor of the Mesa RADV driver for Vulkan needs on Linux.

Back in May AMD announced they would begin officially supporting the Mesa RADV driver as part of their packaged Radeon Software for Linux. In turn they would be dropping their proprietary OpenGL and Vulkan drivers from Radeon Software for Linux.

Since then there have not been any new AMDVLK releases.

libxml2 Maintainer Stepping Down - "More Or Less Unmaintained For Now"

Phoronix | Sept. 15, 2025, 12:38 p.m. | Original

The maintainer of the libxml2 project announced he is stepping down from this widely-used open-source library without any replacement maintainer yet determined.

Nick Wellnhofer has long been the maintainer of libxml2, a widely-used library for parsing XML documents that has been around since 1999. Libxml2 is part of the GNOME project but used extensively by software across the spectrum and by no means limited to GNOME/GTK-aligned apps.

Wellnhofer announced a few months ago he would no longer honor any security

Canonical Announces Plans To Support NVIDIA CUDA, Easy Installation On Ubuntu

Phoronix | Sept. 15, 2025, 10:45 a.m. | Original

Canonical announced today that they will formally support the NVIDIA CUDA toolkit and also make it available via the Ubuntu repositories.

As part of their collaboration with NVIDIA, Canonical will be officially supporting and distributing CUDA within Ubuntu. In the age of AI, Canonical is trying to make it super easy to run CUDA on Ubuntu Linux even though the user-space software is closed-source. At least though there is the modern, open-source NVIDIA GPU kernel driver for hardware since Turing.

The Performance Cost To Ubuntu WSL2 On Windows 11 25H2

Phoronix | Sept. 15, 2025, 10:30 a.m. | Original

It's been a while since delivering any benchmarks on Phoronix of Microsoft's Windows Subsystem for Linux ( WSL2 ) for running Linux applications and other software under the confines of Windows 11. When recently carrying out the Windows 11 25H2 vs. Linux benchmarks I also took the opportunity for seeing how WSL is performing on that leading-edge Windows release compared to running a bare metal Ubuntu Linux installation.

Casilda 1.0 Released As Wayland Compositor Widget For GTK4

Phoronix | Sept. 15, 2025, 9:58 a.m. | Original

Casilda 1.0 is out today as the Wayland compositor widget for the GTK4 toolkit.

Casilda has been in development the past year as a GTK4 Wayland compositor widget that allows adding a Wayland compositor to an application window.Yeah, you can then run your own Wayland app processes within a GTK4 window.

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