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📰 AMD InterWave ISA Sound Card Driver Seeing New Linux Patches In 2026 For those that like to make remarks about AMD "fine wine" especially when it comes to open-source Linux drivers and/or nostalgic about feature work on really old hardware, to much amusement there are new patches today for the AMD InterWave ISA sound card from the 1990s... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-InterWave-2026-Linux- #linux#amd#opensource

📰 AMD ISP4 Driver On Track To Be Merged For Linux 7.2 It looks like with the Linux 7.2 kernel later in the year the AMD ISP4 driver will finally be merged to mainline. This driver is needed for the web camera on the HP ZBook Ultra G1a Strix Halo laptop and other future AMD Ryzen laptops... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-ISP4-For-Linux-7.2 #linux#amd#kernel

📰 A Small But Useful Debugging Addition For AMD Zen Systems With Linux 7.1 A small but convenient feature is coming with the Linux 7.1 that will be useful in debugging AMD Zen system problems and information reporting/transparency purposes... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-AGESA-Version-Linux-7.1 #linux#amd

📰 Tiny Corp Begins Accepting Pre-Orders For Their $10M Exabox Open-source friendly company Tiny Corp that is behind the Tinygrad MIT-licensed neural network framework and developing a "sovereign" AMD GPU driver stack with their Tinybox hardware offerings has their sights on shipping the Exabox next year. The Tiny Corp's Exabox is expected to retail for around $10M USD but offer immense AI compute power... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Tiny-Corp-Exabox-Pre-Order #amd#opensource

📰 Linux 7.1 To Expose AMD Zen 6's AVX-512 BMM For Guest VMs A small but important patch that looks like it will be merged for the upcoming Linux 7.1 kernel is for enumerating AVX-512 BMM support for KVM virtualized guests. AVX-512 BMM is one of the exciting ISA additions with next-gen AMD Zen 6 processors... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-KVM-AVX-512-BMM #linux#amd#kernel

📰 AMD P-State Driver Introducing New Features With Linux 7.1 A few Linux kernel releases have passed since there have been any new features to talk about for the AMD P-State driver for CPU frequency scaling / power management with modern AMD Ryzen and EPYC processors. But for the upcoming Linux 7.1 kernel there are some new features now ready for mainline... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-P-State-Linux-7.1 #linux#amd#kernel

📰 AMD Ryzen AI Max "Strix Halo" Enjoys Great Performance Gains With Latest Linux Software With the Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release due out in three weeks, I have been re-testing a number of different devices on this newest Ubuntu release. One of the most significant improvements to note was when running the Framework Desktop with Ryzen AI Max "Strix Halo" and quantifying the performance gains of the Radeon 8060S Graphics since launch last year. 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/review/ubuntu-2604-strix-halo #linux#amd#ubuntu

📰 AMD GPU Driver Sees DC Idle Manager & Multi-SDMA Engine Optimization For Linux 7.1 With Linux 7.0-rc6 having released on Sunday, we are hitting the point of the cut-off of new feature material being allowed into the Direct Rendering Manager's DRM-Next tree of queuing new graphics/display/accelerator feature code ahead of the upcoming Linux 7.1 merge window. As presumably the last AMDGPU/AMDKFD feature pull ahead of Linux 7.1, today's pull request from AMD contains some noteworthy final enhancements... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDGPU-Linux-7.1-Multi-SDMA #linux#amd

📰 The Integrated ROCm Story For Ubuntu 26.04 Still Playing Out Ubuntu 26.04 LTS is just three weeks out for release with many great features in tow from the GNOME 50 desktop to the very leading-edge Linux 7.0 kernel and many other package updates. One feature that many had been looking forward to is Canonical's plans to ship AMD ROCm directly in the Ubuntu archive for a much cleaner experience for those wanting to make use of AMD's open-source GPU compute stack. 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-26.04-ROCm-State #linux#amd#opensource#ubuntu#kernel#gnome

📰AMD Sends Out Linux Patches For Their Next-Gen AIE4 NPU Hitting the mailing list today are patches providing initial support for AMD's next-gen NPU "AIE4" platform, complete with SR-IOV support... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-AIE4-NPU-AMDXDNA #linux#amd

📰 AMD Revives Linux Kernel Patches For Hardware-Accelerated vIOMMU Back in 2023 AMD posted hardware-accelerated virtualized IOMMU patches for the Linux kernel as a request for comments (RFC). In 2024 they then posted a second iteration of the AMD vIOMMU patches but then seemingly fell off the radar. This morning is now the first set of updated AMD vIOMMU patches sent out on the Linux kernel mailing list with the RFC tag now removed... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-vIOMMU-2026-Linux #linux#amd#kernel

📰 AMD Introduces GAIA Agent UI For Privacy-First Web App For Local AI Agents AMD's GAIA AI agent framework (that previously stood for "Generative AI Is Awesome" albeit they seemed to have dropped promoting it as that name) for Ryzen AI hardware is out with a new version. AMD GAIA 0.17 introduces Agent UI as a new privacy-first web application for local AI agents... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-GAIA-0.17-Agent-UI #amd