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📰 Valve Developer Further Improves Old AMD GPUs: HD 7870 XT Finally Working On Linux Timur Kristóf of Valve's Linux graphics driver team is the one that worked on improving the old AMD Radeon GCN 1.0/1.1 graphics card support by making AMDGPU driver improvements so it could become the default for these Southern Islands and Sea Islands GPUs rather than the legacy Radeon kernel driver. That meant better performance, RADV Vulkan support out-of-the-box, and other benefits. 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Harvested-GPUs-Linux #amd#kernel#linux

📰 AMD's fTPM is still causing random stutters, but the fix could cost you money Stutters are among the most annoying symptoms of PC dysfunction because they're some of the most non-specific issues to solve. It could be caused by literally any component in your rig, and beyond that, software can play a large part in the smoothness of your experience. If you've dealt with stutters and you're running a Ryzen processor, there's a good chance the culprit isn't your RAM, your GPU, or a misbehaving driver. It's caused by a... 🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/amds-ftpm-is-still-causing-random-stutters-but-the-fix-could-cost-you-money/ #amd

📰 Valve Developer Lands RADV/ACO Changes For AMD's GFX11.7 / RDNA 4m The open-source Linux graphics driver work continues around AMD's GFX11.7 GPU target for some yet-to-be-launched APUs/SoCs and to be branded as "RDNA 4m"... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-RDNA4m-RADV-ACO #amd#linux#opensource

📰 AMD Linux Graphics Driver Introducing "Power Module" To Better Match Windows Behavior With the set of today's AMDGPU kernel graphics driver Display Core (DC) patches is a rather curious addition with wiring up the Linux code to a "power module" that looks like it will better match Microsoft Windows behavior with the AMD Radeon driver around display-related power savings features... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDGPU-DC-Power-Module #amd#kernel#linux

📰 Linux Kernel 7.1 Drops 486 and AMD Elan CPU Support Linux kernel 7.1 development begins with x86 changes removing 486, 486SX, and AMD Elan CPU support. 🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/linux-kernel-7-1-drops-486-and-amd-elan-cpu-support/ #amd#kernel#linux

📰 AMD ROCm 7.2.2 Brings Optimization Guide For Ryzen AI / RDNA 3.5 Hardware ROCm 7.2.2 is out today as a small point release to this open-source AMD GPU compute stack. There are a few code changes but most notable is arguably on the documentation side... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-ROCm-7.2.2 #amd#opensource

📰 Ubuntu 26.04 Delivers Great Performance Improvements For AMD Strix Point, Especially For RDNA 3.5 Graphics As part of my ongoing testing around the upcoming Ubuntu 26.04 release I have been running a lot of benchmarks. After recently showing some nice performance gains for AMD Ryzen AI Max "Strix Halo" with Ubuntu 26.04, several Phoronix readers inquired about any performance uplift from the more modest but still powerful Strix Point laptops like the popular Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 SKU. Here are benchmarks showing the performance of Ubuntu 26. 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/review/ubuntu-2604-strix-point #amd#ubuntu

📰 An Open Source Dev Has Put Together a Fix for AMD GPU's VRAM Mismanagement on Linux Six kernel patches and two utilities later, the VRAM situation for AMD GPUs is better now. 🔗 Source: https://feed.itsfoss.com/link/24361/17318424/linux-amd-gpu-vram-fix #amd#kernel#linux#opensource

📰Mesa 26.1 RadeonSI Driver Lands Improvement For AMD APUs With Rusticl For those wishing to make use of modern OpenCL 3.0 capabilities on AMD APUs/SoCs with integrated Radeon graphics using Mesa's Rusticl driver, an improvement was merged this weekend to the RadeonSI driver ahead of this quarter's Mesa 26.1 release... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-26.1-RadeonSI-Rusticl-APUs #amd

📰Many Wonderful Improvements Expected For Linux 7.1, Especially For AMD & Intel With Linux 7.0 expected for release later today, in turn the Linux 7.1 merge window will kick off for the two week period of landing all sorts of exciting new features, changes, and removal of old features from the kernel. Here is a look at some of what is on the table for the Linux 7.1 merge window... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-Features-Early-Look #amd#intel#kernel#linux

📰 Support For AMD GFX11.7 "RDNA 4m" Pending For RADV & RadeonSI Drivers Back in February we were the first to report on a new AMD "RDNA 4m" target appearing in the AMDGPU LLVM shader compiler. While part of the "RDNA 4" family, it's graphics IP version is GFX 11.7 (GFX1170) that is associated with the RDNA 3 family but with some ISA changes to align it slightly more with the newer RDNA 4 graphics IP. 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-RDNA-4m-Mesa-Patches #amd

📰 AMD Making It Easier To Embed Lemonade AI Capabilities Into Other Apps The open-source Lemonade local AI server that enables using Ryzen AI NPUs on Linux for LLM usage as well as AMD Radeon GPU support and common x86_64 CPU support (in addition to Microsoft Windows support) is now becoming easier to embed within other apps for AI usage... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Lemonade-SDK-10.2-Released #opensource#linux#amd