While the Linux WiFi/wireless maintainer just announced taking a stand against AI/LLM generated slop patches with a new “three second review” rule, the broader Linux networking subsystem continues to be bombarded with AI-generated patches. Jakub Kicinski sent out this week’s set of networking patches ahead of the Linux 7.2-rc7 kernel test release on Sunday. In…
Intel recently announced Starfire as their new Panther Lake derived, space-grade SoC designed for extreme environments… like survivability in space. With the Linux 7.3, we are going to begin seeing the first Intel Starfire specific patches land in the kernel. Intel announced the space-grade Starfire SoC in July and with engineering samples to begin shipping…
In over 22 years of Linux hardware reviews and testing at Phoronix, I have never been more excited for a fan controller… ARCTIC today launched their new Fan Controller and in making the product very unique for Linux users, it already has mainline Linux kernel support via a open-source driver contributed directly by ARCTIC. Back…
A few days back I wrote about upstream Linux kernel developers marking the Qualcomm crypto accelerator driver as “broken” and “harmful” due to its slow performance, history of bugs, and other limitations. Now this Qualcomm Crypto Engine “QCE” driver might be removed outright from the Linux kernel source tree after discovering it’s even worse than…
One of the patch series going through nearly a dozen revisions now is for introducing a cold reset recovery method for the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) drivers with an initial focus on the Intel Xe kernel graphics driver. The cold reset recovery is for handling of errors that require a complete device power cycle in…
With Intel’s next-generation Xeon Diamond Rapids processors not slated to launch until next year and with AMD EPYC Venice being right around the corner, Intel announced today that with upcoming BIOS updates they will be expanding the range of RDIMM and MRDIMM memory support for current-generation Xeon 6 and Xeon 6+ processors. As shown in…
The fourth weekly release candidate of the Linux 7.2 kernel is now available for testing. It’s been another brisk week of fixes for the Linux kernel, many of which continue to be uncovered by AI/LLMs. A wide variety of different fixes were merged though not many particularly notable. Linus Torvalds wrote in the 7.2-rc4 announcement:…
The Legion Y700 Gen4 is an Android tablet that debuted last year and powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset. This 8.8-inch tablet is now seeing patches for enabling Linux support outside the confines of Android and will hopefully end up in the mainline kernel. The Lenovo Legion Y700 Gen 4 is a capable,…
The GNU Hurd project recently issued their Q2’2026 status report to outline recently development efforts. The Hurd is still happening! The GNU Hurd Q2-2026 progress report was published earlier this month but only yesterday did their project site get fixed up to once again restore its RSS feed. While not as pronounced as the Linux…
This week’s batch of AMDGPU Display Core “DC” updates arrived heavy with 70 new patches for improving that open-source display support for Radeon graphics on the Linux desktop. For those wanting to use the modern Apple Studio Display with AMD Radeon graphics on Linux, this week’s AMDGPU DC patches contain an important fix. The Apple…
