It's been another busy week in the Linux kernel camp with increased patch activity continuing due to AI/LLM coding agents / bots continuing to uncover different defects in the open-source codebase. The hardware monitoring (HWMON) subsystem saw many fixes this week for issues mostly raised by the Sashiko AI bot with the issues being described as mostly critical or high severity bugs.

While we approach the end of the Linux 7.2 kernel cycle with the stable release coming out later this month, patch activity continues to be

Thanks in part to the power of Claude Opus 5 and Claude Fable 5, a new Windows DirectX 11 driver for QEMU has been created to help improve graphics acceleration for Microsoft Windows guests running under QEMU virtual machines.

Open-source developer "Osy" announced recently his creation of the Triton driver that leverages Mesa and virglrenderer components and more for getting Direct3D 11 running nicely in VMs. This builds off the project's earlier Neptune driver approach that leveraged DXVK/Vulkan but ran into obstacles with needing to

The input subsystem fixes for the week include a number of AI-driven patches to address various information leaks, out-of-bounds accesses, validation fixes, and other coding issues that have turned up recently. Plus some device quirks and also adding support for a rather funky gaming controller to the common XPad Linux driver used by many different gaming controllers.

The new controller added to the XPad driver for Linux 7.2-rc7 is the Zenaim Leverless. The Zenaim Leverless looks rather unusual and is a controller optimized

It's been another busy summertime week of KDE developers working toward a great Plasma 6.8 desktop release in October.

This Week in Plasma is out today with its newest issue to highlight all the interesting changes for the week. With Plasma 6.8 if attempting to print to a printer that's unavailable, there's now a notification to alert you to this fact rather than silently failing.

For those with newer, high-end Logitech input devices, coming with Linux 7.3 is support for the re-programmable button support of the HID++ 2.0 protocol.

The HID++ 2.0 device protocol's reprogrammable button support allows for software to query, remap, and divert mouse buttons and special keyboard keys. When a button is diverted, a special notification is used rather than a standard key event.

There have been some user-space open-source software solutions for the

Upstreamed for the Linux 7.2 kernel was the Device Tree (DT) support for booting the mainline Linux kernel on the base Apple M3 SoC . Though it's not yet useful for end-users with many features remaining to be supported and upstreamed . Now for the upcoming Linux 7.3 kernel, the M3 Pro, Max, and Ultra variants will also have initial support for booting on the mainline kernel.

This M3 Pro / M3 Max / M3 Ultra support is the basic Device

Intel today released an updated version of their QuickAssist Technology library (QATlib) as the user-space component for making use of QuickAssist accelerators under Linux.

Most notable with QATlib 26.08 is the library being ready for supporting next-gen QAT Gen6 6XXX accelerators. Since last year Intel already prepared QAT Gen6 support in their Linux kernel driver along with enabling new features like wireless mode support and Zstd support and Key Protection Technology (KPT). Now the QATlib user-space support is aligned with

This week a final batch of DRM-Misc-Next feature material was submitted for DRM-Next to queue ahead of the Linux 7.3 merge window opening later in the month. Most notable is the TTM memory management code is now being more agressive when allocating below protection limits. This is an improvement coming thanks to Valve's open-source Linux graphics team.

Since last year Natalie Vock of Valve's Linux graphics team has been exploring cases where device memory protection fails to prevent allocations from ending up in

Following AMD making progress with HDMI Fixed Rate Link (FRL) and other HDMI 2.1 functionality for their open-source Linux kernel graphics driver, Intel is out today with a big set of 44 patches working on HDMI 2.1 FRL support for their kernel graphics driver with Meteor Lake hardware and newer.

It seems something indeed has changed at the HDMI Forum around open-source driver support given AMD's work toward getting an HDMI 2.1 implementation out there in recent months and now with new activity