Linuxgram 🐧@linuxgram · Post #18331 · 07.04.2026 г., 10:48
📰 RISC-V XIP Linux Feature Being Removed After It Keeps Breaking For Months At A Time
Introduced in Linux 5.13 back in 2021 was eXecute In Place "XIP" support for RISC-V that allows for the kernel image to be executed from ROM. The intent is on allowing the kernel to run from non-volatile storage like NOR flash that is directly addressable by the CPU and to reduce RAM usage. But after RISC-V XIP support is broken for months at a time, the feature is now set to be retired from the mainline kernel...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/RISC-V-XIP-Being-Removed
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Linuxgram 🐧@linuxgram · Post #18326 · 06.04.2026 г., 16:46
📰 Patch to end i486 support hits Linux kernel merge queue
After a year of patchwork, maintainers look ready to start retiring 486-class CPUs It's taken nearly a full version number to get the pieces in order, but the long-awaited end of 486 chip support in the Linux kernel appears to be nigh with Linux 7.1's release later this year. …
🔗 Source: https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/04/06/patch_to_end_i486_support/
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Linuxgram 🐧@linuxgram · Post #18319 · 06.04.2026 г., 06:52
📰Linux 7.0-rc7 Released With Improved Docs For AI Agents, WiFi Driver Performance Fix
Timed for Easter this year is the seventh weekly release candidate for the Linux 7.0 kernel. If all goes well, Linux 7.0 stable will be out next week...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.0-rc7-Released
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Linuxgram 🐧@linuxgram · Post #18312 · 04.04.2026 г., 17:02
📰 Razer Wolverine V3 Pro & Betop KP50 Controllers To Be Supported By Linux 7.0
Ahead of tomorrow's Linux 7.0-rc7 kernel release, this week's batch of input fixes were sent in and merged. Besides a few small input fixes are also some new device IDs and quirks for hardware now to be handled by Linux 7.0...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.0-rc7-Input-Fixes
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Linuxgram 🐧@linuxgram · Post #18298 · 03.04.2026 г., 15:32
📰 Meta Has A New Linux Optimization To Avoid Throttling TCP Throughput Unnecessarily
Meta's great Linux engineering team have been working through some fresh performance optimizations recently from optimizing /proc/interrupts outputs to renewing their investment in jemalloc. A new Linux kernel patch this week provides another optimization to avoid a possible situation of throttling the TCP throughput unnecessarily on Linux systems...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-VM-Pressure-TCP-Through
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Linuxgram 🐧@linuxgram · Post #18271 · 01.04.2026 г., 13:39
📰 The Linux Kernel's Minimum Rust Version Supported Prepares For Rust 1.85 Baseline
The Rust-For-Linux crew is preparing to raise the minimum supported Rust version for building the Linux kernel and and similarly also bumping the minimum supported version of bindgen, the tool for generating Rust FFI bindings for C code in the kernel...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Preps-For-Rust-1.85-Base
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Linuxgram 🐧@linuxgram · Post #18265 · 31.03.2026 г., 21:27
📰 New Rust-Based BUS1 In-Kernel IPC In Development For The Linux Kernel
After KDBUS failed to make it into the mainline Linux kernel more than one decade ago as an in-kernel version of D-Bus, BUS1 was proposed as a clean sheet design for in-kernel, capability-based inter-process communication (IPC). BUS1 didn't gain enough traction to make it to the mainline kernel and then many of the same developers devised Dbus-Broker as a more performant D-Bus user-space implementation.
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/BUS1-Linux-2026
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Linuxgram 🐧@linuxgram · Post #18234 · 29.03.2026 г., 16:17
📰 Linux Ham Radio KISS Serial Driver Being Modernized In 2026
Here's something that wasn't on my bingo card for this year of the "MKISS" driver for ham radio being modernized in 2026 as opposed to just being dropped. The MKISS code hasn't seen much driver activity since the original Git import of the Linux kernel more than twenty years ago...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Ham-Radio-MKISS-2026
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Linuxgram 🐧@linuxgram · Post #18222 · 28.03.2026 г., 14:45
📰 Linux 7.0-rc6 Bringing A Lot Of Audio Quirks / Fixes
The Linux 7.0-rc6 kernel due for release tomorrow has a lot of audio fixes/quirks to correct a wide variety of different hardware issues, mostly different problematic laptops for their speakers and/or microphone behavior under Linux...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.0-rc6-Many-Audio-Fixes
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Linuxgram 🐧@linuxgram · Post #18218 · 28.03.2026 г., 08:14
📰 DRBD Driver Working To Land ~15 Years Worth Of Changes Into The Linux Kernel
Developers behind the Distributed Replicated Block Device "DRBD" for mirroring block devices between multiple host systems are working to resync the upstream Linux kernel DRBD support with the out-of-tree DRBD code they have been maintaining for the past ~15 years out-of-sync. It's a big undertaking but they have begun staging patches for review and testing to get this massive set of changes up to par for mainline...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/DRBD-15-Years-Code-Changes
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Linuxgram 🐧@linuxgram · Post #18212 · 27.03.2026 г., 14:05
📰 BPF-Based I/O Scheduler For Linux Demonstrated
With sched_ext there is support for BPF-based CPU scheduling policies for the Linux kernel while now a new initiative is working on BPF-based I/O schedulers...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/BPF-IO-Scheduler-Linux
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Linuxgram 🐧@linuxgram · Post #18211 · 27.03.2026 г., 11:32
📰 AMDGPU Driver For Linux 7.1 Preps Debug Improvements, New Hardware IP
Another round of AMDGPU/AMDKFD kernel driver improvements were sent out this week as feature development for DRM-Next ahead of Linux 7.1 begins to wind down...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-More-AMDGPU
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