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"Tyr" Announced As New Rust-Written Linux Kernel Graphics Driver

Phoronix | June 27, 2025, 8:32 p.m. | Original

An unexpected announcement this Friday evening is an introduction to Tyr, a new Linux kernel DRM graphics driver written in the Rust programming language. As is sadly becoming more common among Linux GPU kernel drivers is the increasing obscure driver names. Tyr?!?

Not clear from the name and initially overlooked in my kernel mailing list readings was the Tyr announcement. Tyr is a new open-source Direct Rendering Manager driver for modern Arm Mali graphics hardware. This Rust-written Tyr driver is aiming to support the same modern Arm Mali

Wine 10.11 Makes More Preparations For NTSYNC Support

Phoronix | June 27, 2025, 6:57 p.m. | Original

Wine 10.11 is out for testing today as the newest bi-weekly development release of this software for running Microsoft Windows games and applications on Linux and other platforms.

Most notable with Wine 10.11 is making more preparations around NTSYNC support for that upstream Linux kernel driver for better matching the Windows NT synchronization primitives. Leveraging NTSYNC can help with Windows gaming performance and other scenarios. NTSYNC is in good shape with Linux 6.14 and newer while the Wine support is still pending.

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RADV vs. AMDVLK Driver Performance For Strix Halo Radeon 8060S Graphics

Phoronix | June 27, 2025, 11:10 a.m. | Original

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The latest in our ongoing testing of AMD Strix Halo performance using the HP ZBook Ultra G1a is analyzing the Vulkan API performance between Mesa's RADV driver and the AMDVLK official open-source AMD Vulkan driver for Linux systems. More than one hundred benchmarks were run looking at the performance from Steam Play games to Vulkan compute workloads.

RADV is the Radeon Vulkan driver within Mesa that in turn is what's shipped by default by nearly all major desktop Linux distributions. RADV has long been the preferred option by Linux

Ubuntu Concept 25.04 ISOs Published For Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite Laptops

Phoronix | June 27, 2025, 9:54 a.m. | Original

Similar to the Ubuntu 24.10 concept ISOs for Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite laptops , Canonical has begun publishing new "concept" images of Ubuntu 25.04 ISOs optimized for use on the growing number of Qualcomm Snpadragon X Elite laptops. This week marks the release of the new ISOs for enhancing Ubuntu Linux on various ARM laptops.

While Ubuntu 25.04 shipped with a desktop AArch64 (ARM64) ISO image, that generic image isn't as well suited for Qualcomm

Canonical Makes Multipass VM Manager Fully Open-Source

Phoronix | June 27, 2025, 9:05 a.m. | Original

Canonical's Multipass lightweight VM manager for not only Linux systems but also Windows and macOS is now considered fully open-source. Multipass started out as a means of running an Ubuntu environment with ease from a single command on major operating systems. With today's Multipass 1.16 release candidate, it's now fully open-source.

Multipass relies on KVM for virtualization on Linux, Microsoft Hyper-V on Windows, and QEMU under macOS for running virtual machines (VMs) with low overhead. Multipass

NVIDIA Blackwell Support Coming Together For NVK Vulkan In Mesa

Phoronix | June 27, 2025, 6:43 a.m. | Original

Merged for the current Linux 6.16 cycle was initial NVIDIA Blackwell GPU support with the Nouveau open-source driver . NVIDIA Blackwell GPU support was tacked onto the existing Nouveau kernel driver rather than having to wait for the new "NOVA" driver and like prior generations continuing to leverage the GSP firmware. For going along with that Nouveau support, the Mesa NVK Vulkan driver support for Blackwell continues being put together too.

In a few merges in recent weeks, the NVIDIA Blackwell / GeForce RTX 50 support has been

Bcachefs Changes End Up Being Merged Into Linux 6.16, For 6.17: "We'll Be Parting Ways"

Phoronix | June 27, 2025, 6:27 a.m. | Original

Last week was a Bcachefs pull request consisting of fixes and a new "journal_rewind" feature to aide as a disaster recovery tool for the file-system. But with that code being submitted as part of the ongoing Linux 6.16 release candidates, it drew criticism from Linus Torvalds and other kernel developers. However, one week later and that discussion having subsided a few days ago, Linus Torvalds ended up merging all of the code. But there is a concerning warning for the future of Bcachefs in the

AMD Platinum Sponsor Of Debian's DebConf25 - Promoting ROCm

Phoronix | June 27, 2025, 6:05 a.m. | Original

The Debian project announced on Thursday that AMD has got on-board for being a platinum sponsor of their upcoming DebConf25 developer conference happening in July in Brest, France.

AMD is a top-tier sponsor for next month's annual Debian Developer Conference in France. Given the Debian.org announcement , AMD's emphasis appears to be on promoting ROCm to Debian developers:

"We are pleased to announce that AMD has committed to sponsor DebConf25 as a Platinum Sponsor.

The AMD ROCm platform includes programming

VirtualBox 7.2 Beta 2 Preps Linux 6.16 Support, More Windows On ARM Enhancements

Phoronix | June 26, 2025, 8:31 p.m. | Original

In addition to releasing Oracle Linux 10 today, Oracle also released the second beta of the upcoming VirtualBox 7.2 cross-platform virtualization software.

Last month VirtualBox 7.2 went into beta with initial support for Windows 11 on Arm for both guests and hosts. Plus there have been GUI enhancements to VirtualBox 7.2 and a variety of other enhancements made. Additionally, with VirtualBox 7.2 development Oracle has transitioned to making the source code available via GitHub for easier community contributions and analysis.

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Rust 1.88 Released With Improvements For Naked Functions, Chaining Let Statements

Phoronix | June 26, 2025, 2:38 p.m. | Original

Last month saw the release of Rust 1.87 that celebrated ten years of the Rust programming language while out today is Rust 1.88 that continues iterating the language with new features.

Rust 1.88 introduces support for writing naked functions with no compiler-generated epilogue and prologue to allow for full control over the generated Assembly of that function. Naked functions are marked using the #[unsafe(naked)] attribute.

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