There are a variety of different bug-fixes backported for this final Mesa 25.1 release. Some of the Mesa 25.1.9 changes include:
- Several RadeonSI Video Core Next
Mesa 25.1.9 Released To End Out The Mesa 25.1 Series
There are a variety of different bug-fixes backported for this final Mesa 25.1 release. Some of the Mesa 25.1.9 changes include:
- Several RadeonSI Video Core Next
Framework Desktop Power Mode Tuning For Better Performance Or Power Efficiency
Continuing on with our Framework Desktop benchmarking powered by AMD Ryzen AI Max "Strix Halo", today we are looking at the performance and power impact of power mode tuning for this review sample powered by the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 SoC. A wide variety of benchmarks were done across the power saver / balanced / performance power modes for looking at the impact on performance as well as thermals and power consumption.
Earlier this month I provided a deep dive into the power and thermals for the Framework Desktop while this
Patches Posted To Allow Writing USB Rust Drivers For Linux
Daniel Almeida of Collabora posted the initial set of patches to begin hashing out the Rust USB abstractions for the Linux kernel.
Almedia explained on the patch series :
"This adds initial support for USB Rust drivers, not only because I see a widespread use of module_usb_driver() in media (which is a subsystem I aim to support) but also because I want to learn about USB
RADV Vulkan Driver Lands Untyped Pointers Support
The Vulkan untyped pointers functionality is described in the VK_KHR_shader_untyped_pointers extension spec as
AI Is Now Being Used To Help Determine Patches For Backporting In The Linux Kernel
Linux LTS co-maintainer Sasha Levin was the one helping push along the recent Linux kernel documentation around AI coding assistant use . It now appears Sasha Levin is using AI/LLMs to help in figuring out the patches that should be back-ported to existing Linux kernel releases.
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The Former Lead For Apple Graphics Drivers On Linux Is Now Working At Intel
Alyssa Rosenzweig led all of the Mesa open-source OpenGL/Vulkan driver work for enabling the Apple M1 and M2 graphics hardware under Linux. In her post yesterday announcing she was stepping away from the
Latest NOVA Patches From NVIDIA Get The GSP Booting To RISC-V Active State
For those that don't recall or weren't active on the open-source Linux graphics driver scene, NVIDIA's
QEMU 10.1 Released With Intel TDX Improvements, Support For Compiling To WASM
There are many important changes with QEMU 10.1 including a number of items benefiting Intel TDX and AMD SEV-SNP for confidential virtualization. Plus Arm and RISC-V improvements, host support for compiling to WebAssembly, and more. Here are some of the key features of QEMU 10.1:
- New Arm CPU feature support includes SME2,
With Apple M1/M2 Graphics Driver Code Working, Alyssa Rosenzweig Stepping Away From Asahi Linux
With the Apple graphics driver support with the Mesa OpenGL/Gallium3D and Vulkan drivers in good shape for Apple M1/M2 SoCs, conformance against these latest Khronos Group APIs achieved, and
A Number Of Fedora 43 Features/Changes Delayed To Fedora 44
The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee had their meeting today where they went over the incomplete changes for Fedora 43. The Fedora change completion deadline was back on 12 August along with the branching of F43 from Rawhide. The 100% code completion deadline was today and thus most