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AMD-Powered Barco MXRT Graphics Cards Finally Seeing Linux Driver Support

Phoronix | June 19, 2026, 4:11 p.m. | Original

Barco, the Europeean technology company that manufactures the AMD GPU based MXRT graphics cards for for multi-display medical imaging systems (and also MXRV for their NVIDIA based graphics cards), have to date only seen Windows drivers published for their professional-grade graphics cards even with using Radeon Pro derived GPUs. But a patch published today to the AMD graphics mailing list is opening the door for Linux support.

Matthew Jacob of Feral Software posted the patch for enabling several Barco MXRT graphics cards to work with the AMDGPU Linux kernel graphics

systemd 261 Released With New systemd-sysinstall OS Installer, IMDSD & Storagectl

Phoronix | June 19, 2026, 2:28 p.m. | Original

Systemd 261 is out as stable today with a number of new features and ready to coincide with H2'2026 Linux distributions.

The systemd 261 release is out today with a host of new features and capabilities for this Linux init system and service manager and a lot more. As covered previously on Phoronix, some of the interesting additions with systemd 261 include:

- A new subsystem with systemd 261 is the Instance Metadata Service "IMDS". This includes the new

AMD ACP7.D/7.E/7.F Driver Added In Linux 7.2: "Substantial Design Changes" For AMD Audio

Phoronix | June 19, 2026, 11:51 a.m. | Original

It looks like AMD's next-gen SoCs not only will be exciting on the CPU side with the much anticipated Zen 6 cores but the AMD Audio Co-Processor "ACP" IP looks to be going through some significant updates.

Merged as part of the sound subsystem changes for the Linux 7.2 kernel is AMD ACP7.D/7.E/7.F driver support for that updated audio co-processor IP block. While not outlining what AMD products this AMD ACP7.D/

Linux 7.2 Brings More Work Around WiFi Aware, WiFi 8 / UHR & More Networking Hardware

Phoronix | June 19, 2026, 10:08 a.m. | Original

The networking subsystem changes have been merged for Linux 7.2 with a lot happening around the core networking code as well as the many wired and wireless networking device drivers.

Linux 7.2 networking continues working on Neighbor Awareness Networking, or now formally known as WiFi Aware, for securely discovering, pairing, and interfacing with nearby devices without relying on traditional WiFi routers / Bluetooth or an Internet connection. There have been multicast additions, schedule improvements, multi-station work, etc. WiFi Aware should be useful for smart

Raspberry Pi OS Moves To Linux 6.18 LTS Kernel, Updated LabWC Compositor

Phoronix | June 19, 2026, 9:07 a.m. | Original

Raspberry Pi engineers have released their first update to Raspberry Pi OS since April. With this new version comes the upgrade to the latest Linux 6.18 LTS kernel.

Raspberry Pi OS had been using the Linux 6.12 LTS kernel but now with Raspberry Pi OS 2026-06-18 they are onto the Linux 6.18.34 LTS kernel as the latest long-term support series for that 2025 debut kernel. With that upgrade means better performance

Apple M3 Booting On Linux After Three Years Plus Other SoC Updates In Linux 7.2

Phoronix | June 19, 2026, 7:09 a.m. | Original

Just shy of 1,000 new patches were merged on the SoC side for the Linux 7.2 kernel. Among all those patches are enabling five more SoCs to work with the mainline Linux kernel -- including the long-awaited Apple M3 support.

First and arguably most notable is the Apple M3 SoCs with their 2023 generation of Apple Mac hardware is now able to boot the Linux kernel. For Linux 7.2 there are five Apple MacBook laptop models based on the Apple M

AMD Introduces An AI-Powered Bash Coding Agent

Phoronix | June 19, 2026, 6:31 a.m. | Original

Just days after AMD engineers released a new Lemonade AI server with MCP server integration to make it much more useful, they have now released a new release of their GAIA "Generative AI Is Awesome" open-source software. With AMD GAIA 0.21.2, they have introduced a bash coding agent is their latest big ticket item in the AI space.

Thursday's release of GAIA 0.21.2 introduces "gaia-bash" as an AI-powered bash scripting assistant for writing,

Intel TDX Now Much More Practical With Ability To Apply Important Updates Without Reboot

Phoronix | June 19, 2026, 6:18 a.m. | Original

For those interested in Trust Domain Extensions (TDX) with modern Intel Xeon processors for confidential computing but also view system uptime as critical, beginning in Linux 7.2 the TDX support is now much more practical with allowing live updates without the need to reboot the running system in the event of security updates and similar.

Similar to how Intel CPU microcode updates can be applied at run-time, beginning in Linux 7.2 all the pieces are in place for now supporting TDX module runtime updates to avoid the status quo

ARCTIC Fan Controller, More ASUS & ASRock Boards Have Sensor Monitoring With Linux 7.2

Phoronix | June 19, 2026, 6:08 a.m. | Original

For those that enjoy keeping an eye on all their system vitals from temperatures to voltages, the hardware monitoring "HWMON" updates have seen many device additions for Linux 7.2 .

First up, the ARCTIC Fan Controller driver has been merged for managing fans with this yet-to-be-released ARCTIC Cooling product . It wasn't done by a third-party or the open-source community but ARCTIC Cooling developed the driver themselves and is already upstream prior to formally releasing the USB-based fan controller.

AMD ISP4 Driver Merged To Linux 7.2 Kernel

Phoronix | June 18, 2026, 9 p.m. | Original

The media subsystem changes were merged tonight for the Linux 7.2 merge window and it includes the long-awaited AMD ISP4 driver now in the mainline kernel.. This ISP4 driver is what completes the loop for enabling the web camera on the HP ZBook Ultra G1a and other future high-end AMD Ryzen laptops.

It's taken longer than expected and in the interim the Ubuntu OEM kernel and the like have carried the AMD ISP4 driver for enabling web camera support on the likes of the

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