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📰 OpenAI's Coding Agent Helped Create A New AMD Temperature Driver For Linux The newest open-source AMD Linux driver on the Linux kernel mailing list that has recently been undergoing review is prom21-xhci that exposes the temperature sensors found on the AMD Promontory 21 chipsets' xHCI controllers... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Prom21-xHCI-Temp-Driver #amd#kernel#linux#opensource

📰 HP Z6 G5 A Continues Working Out Well For Linux-Friendly, High-End Workstation In late 2023 I reviewed the HP Z6 G5 A workstation that at the time was built around the AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7000 series and NVIDIA RTX Ada Generation graphics. More recently, HP has revised the Z6 G5 A workstation for the latest Threadripper PRO 9000 series and NVIDIA RTX PRO Blackwell graphics. HP sent over the upgraded Z6 G5 A workstation that I've been benchmarking the past few weeks. 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/review/hp-z6-g5-a-2026 #amd#linux

📰Star Labs StarFighter Linux Laptop Finally Goes on Sale Star Labs' StarFighter Linux laptop is now available with Intel and AMD options, coreboot firmware, LVFS updates, and a 16-inch display. 🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/star-labs-starfighter-linux-laptop-finally-goes-on-sale/ #amd#intel#linux

📰 AMD K5 CPUs The Latest To Be Retired With Linux's Aging & Stagnate Hardware Support Following Linux 7.1 beginning to phase out i486 CPU support and in turn drivers like those for the old AMD Elan SoCs now being removed, for Linux 7.2 the processor support removal is going further to now include some i586 and i686 class processors... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-K5-CPUs #amd#linux

📰 Linux Drivers For The AMD Elan SoCs From The 1990s On Track For Retirement Merged for the current Linux 7.1 cycle was beginning to phase out the Intel 486 processor support from the mainline kernel moving forward. That initial step with Linux 7.1 was dropping the various Kconfig options to allow compiling Linux kernel builds for targeting various i486 platforms. As part of that, the AMD Elan SoC configuration patches were dropped. 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Elan-Linux-Driver-Removal #amd#intel#kernel#linux

📰 AMD Geode CPU Support Being Orphaned By Linux For those with fond memories of the AMD Geode x86 embedded processors, the Linux kernel is set to orphan these since discontinued and obsolete CPUs... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Geode-Orphaned-By-Linux #amd#kernel#linux

📰 AMD Preps Linux For CPPC HighestFreq Feature Coming With Future ACPI Spec An improvement on the way for the AMD P-State Linux CPU frequency scaling driver and the Linux ACPI Collaborative Processor Performance Control (CPPC) code at large is supporting a new "HighestFreq" register to be standardized by a future revision of the ACPI specification... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-CPPC-HighestFreq #amd#linux

📰 GCC 16 Compiler Delivering Some Decent Performance Gains Over GCC 15 With the GCC 16.1 compiler released last Thursday, I have begun running more compiler benchmarks on this first GCC 16 stable feature release. GCC 16 comes heavy on new changes in being the annual feature release and delivering changes from AMD Zen 6 and Arm AGI CPU support to new C++ features and even the Algol 68 programming language front-end. 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/review/gcc-16-benchmarks #amd#arm

📰 Expanded AMD HDMI 2.1 support is coming to Linux One area that's lacking on Linux right now is support for later versions of HDMI with AMD GPUs, but it seems expanded features are coming.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux. 🔗 Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/05/expanded-amd-hdmi-2-1-support-is-coming-to-linux/ #amd#linux

📰 AMD's GAIA Defaults To Better Model, Continued Improvements For Local AI AMD software engineers on Friday released a new version of GAIA "Generative AI Is Awesome" as their open-source software for Windows and Linux leveraging the Lemonade SDK and aiming to make it easy to build AI agents on your PC with all local AI processing across AMD's CPUs, GPUs, and NPUs... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-GAIA-0.17.5 #amd#linux#opensource

📰 Star Labs Releases Coreboot Firmware 26.05 with New Features for Its Linux PCs Star Labs releases Firmware 26.05 with support for AMD Cezanne models like Star Labs Byte Mk I and StarBook Mk VI, and Coreboot support for Star Labs Byte Mk I. 🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/star-labs-releases-firmware-26-05-with-new-features-for-its-linux-pcs #amd#linux

📰 Mesa Developers Consider Branching Off Some Older GPU Drivers - Including AMD R300/R600 Mike Blumenkrantz of Valve's Linux graphics team has ignited a discussion over potentially shifting some of Mesa's older GPU drivers into a new legacy Git branch in order to better support the more modern OpenGL and Vulkan drivers without having to worry about breaking the legacy drivers and to allow for better cleaning of the Mesa codebase. Among the drivers that could be impacted are the ATI/AMD R300 and R600 drivers and many smaller drivers... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-Considering-Amber-2 #amd#linux