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Improved TTM Memory Management Eviction Submitted Ahead Of Linux 6.17

Phoronix | July 3, 2025, 6:12 a.m. | Original

Sent out today was the newest drm-misc-next pull request of changes built up over the past week for DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 6.17 kernel cycle. The drm-misc-next material is the usual random assortment of DRM display/graphics driver changes and core improvements, which this week includes some TTM eviction work.

The drm-misc-next code in today's pull request includes adding AM65x OLDI bridge support to the TIDSS driver, the Intel i91

Libreboot 25.06 Released With Support For Two More Outdated Systems

Phoronix | July 3, 2025, 5:55 a.m. | Original

Libreboot 25.06 released this week as the newest version of this Coreboot downstream focused on shipping only with free and open-source components. But due to the strict open-source nature of Libreboot, it continues to primarily see support for long outdated platforms.

With Libreboot 25.06 there is support for two platforms: the Acer Q45T-AM and Dell Precision T1700 SFF and MT systems. The Acer Q45T-AM motherboard employs the Intel Q

Steam On Linux Usage Dips Slightly For June, AMD Linux CPU Usage Hits 69%

Phoronix | July 2, 2025, 8:38 p.m. | Original

Steam Survey issues prevented the survey results from being posted on the evening of the 1st as is traditionally done, but the results were just uploaded now to the Steam website. Steam on Linux usage dipped slightly but overall remains healthy with much excitement still around the Steam Deck and SteamOS efforts.

In May the Steam on Linux use hit a recent high of 2.69% and in absolute terms was likely the largest overall Linux user-base ever on Steam. But the June numbers are now available and point to

Debian 13 Installer RC2 Fixes An Annoying Issue, Improves Btrfs Rescue Handling

Phoronix | July 2, 2025, 8:28 p.m. | Original

Following last month's release of Debian Installer Trixie RC1 as the installer for the upcoming Debian 13.0 release, a second release candidate was issued today for testing.

Apt-setup will now disable CD-ROM sources if the installation medium is not a real CD but rather a USB stick, SD card, ISO file, or similar. This is done since APT cannot use it after the installation. This has long been a nuisance when installing Debian from a USB flash drive in needing to comment out

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ZLUDA Making Progress In 2025 On Bringing CUDA To Non-NVIDIA GPUs

Phoronix | July 2, 2025, 4:01 p.m. | Original

The ZLUDA open-source effort that started off a half-decade ago as a drop-in CUDA implementation for Intel GPUs and then for several years was funded by AMD as a CUDA implementation for Radeon GPUs atop ROCm and then open-sourced but then reverted has been continuing to push along a new path since last year. The current take on ZLUDA is a multi-vendor CUDA implementation for non-NVIDIA GPUs for AI workloads and more. More progress was made during Q2 on this effort.

The Q2

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AMD Posts Linux Patches For New AI Engine Driver "amd-ai-engine"

Phoronix | July 2, 2025, 12:07 p.m. | Original

Not to be confused with the AMDXDNA accelerator driver for the Ryzen AI NPUs, AMD software engineers today posted patches for review on the "amd-ai-engine" accelerator driver. This new AMD AI Engine driver is for supporting the IP found on their Versal adaptive SoCs.

The nearly three thousand lines of new driver code posted today for review on the way to the Linux kernel is enabling the AMD AI Engine that is currently found in their adaptive SoCs with the Versal product line-up originating from their Xilinx acquisition.

Firefox 120 To Firefox 141 Web Browser Benchmarks

Phoronix | July 2, 2025, 11 a.m. | Original

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For those curious about the direction of Mozilla Firefox web browser performance over the past year and a half, here are web browser benchmarks for every Firefox release from Firefox 120 in November 2023 through the newest Firefox 140 stable and Firefox 140 beta releases from a few days ago. Every major Firefox release was benchmarked on the same Ubuntu Linux system with AMD Ryzen 9 9950X for evaluating the performance and memory usage of this open-source web browser.

Following the recent

Wayback Hopes To Be Ready Next Year With Alpine Linux Planning To Use It By Default

Phoronix | July 2, 2025, 9:56 a.m. | Original

A few days ago Wayback was announced as an X11 compatibility layer for X11 desktops environments leveraging a rootful XWayland server. While currently experimental, the hope is that it will be production-ready next year and Alpine Linux is looking at using it by default for its X11 environment.

Alpine Linux developer Ariadne Conill has posted more about the Wayback plans moving forward for this X11 compatibility layer to support running full X11 desktop environments using Wayland components.

Ariadne commented that while it's

Better Late Than Never: Linux 6.17 To Enable Intel DG1 Graphics By Default

Phoronix | July 2, 2025, 8:49 a.m. | Original

Prior to the DG2/Alchemist discrete GPUs from Intel there was the DG1 graphics processor that served primarily as the initial developer vehicle for facilitating Intel's modern discrete GPU push. DG1 ended up being in the Intel Xe MAX GPU for a small number of laptops and then there's also been a select number of DG1 graphics cards surfacing on eBay in the years since. Only now in 2025 is the upstream Linux kernel driver set to enable Intel DG1 graphics out-of-

GNOME Papers Document Viewer Approved To Replace Evince In GNOME 49

Phoronix | July 2, 2025, 6:33 a.m. | Original

GNOME Papers has been in development as a modern GTK4-based document viewer . There have been many improvements made to Papers and now ahead of the GNOME 49 release in September, it's been approved to replace Evince as the official document viewer of the GNOME desktop.

In the GNOME Papers tracking ticket , it was formally decided yesterday that it will become the document viewer app of GNOME 49. Sophie Herold wrote:

"Since the alpha for GNOME 49 isn't out yet, we are approving

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