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📰 Arm Preparing The Linux Kernel For 128-bit Page Table Entries "FEAT_D128" A new core infrastructure improvement for the Linux kernel on ARM being worked on is enabling 128-bit page table entries (PTEs) with FEAT_D128 as a new optional feature of Armv9.3 and later... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Arm-Linux-FEAT-D128-Patches #arm#kernel#linux

📰 After Ubuntu, Now Fedora is Jumping Onto the AI Bandwagon With Dedicated AI Developer Desktops Planned across three new Fedora releases, the initiative targets Intel, AMD, NVIDIA, and ARM hardware. 🔗 Source: https://feed.itsfoss.com/link/24361/17337726/fedora-ai-developer-desktops #amd#arm#fedora#intel#ubuntu

📰 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

📰 IBM Updates Linux Patches For Introducing ARM64 KVM Virtualization On s390 At the start of April was the peculiar announcement of IBM collaborating with Arm on "dual architecture" hardware. The initial fruits of that collaboration at least are Linux kernel patches for enabling ARM64 virtualization acceleration on IBM Z servers. As we approach the end of the month, IBM has now posted a second iteration of those patches for enabling AArch64 software to run on IBM s390 via the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM)... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/ARM64-On-s390-IBM-Z-v2 #arm#kernel#linux

📰With Linux 7.1 The Mainline Kernel Now Supports Real-Time "RT" On ARM The Linux 7.1 mainline kernel will allow building a real-time "PREEMPT_RT" kernel for the ARM architecture with no longer needing any out-of-tree patches... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-ARM-RT #arm#kernel#linux

📰 Arm C1-Ultra Scheduling Model Merged For LLVM/Clang 23 Merged recently to the latest LLVM/Clang compiler development tree is the Arm C1-Ultra scheduling model for helping with delivering optimal binaries for that flagship next-gen Arm mobile CPU... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Arm-C1-Ultra-Sched-LLVM-Clang #arm

📰 QEMU 11.0 Released With Dropped 32-Bit Host Support QEMU 11.0 drops all 32-bit host support, adds a Diamond Rapids CPU model for x86, and brings broad changes across ARM, RISC-V, KVM, and migration. 🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/qemu-11-0-released-with-dropped-32-bit-host-support/ #arm#qemu

📰 Linux 7.1 Lands Workaround For Arm C1-Pro Erratum Merged yesterday to the Linux 7.1 kernel is a workaround for an Arm C1-Pro CPU hardware bug around its Scalable Matrix Extension implementation... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-Arm-C1-Pro-Fix #arm#kernel#linux

📰 Dell XPS 13 Snapdragon Elite Laptop Sees New EC Linux Driver To Improve Support Last month Dell upstreamed the firmware needed for their XPS 13 935 Snapdragon X1 Elite laptop. This makes the Linux outlook for this ARM-based Dell XPS laptop much better than before in not having to worry about extracting necessary firmware blobs from Windows 11. Now another step forward for the Dell XPS 13 9345 is being made with a new EC driver being posted to enhance the hardware support... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Dell-XPS-13-9345-EC-Driver #arm#linux

📰 Arm rolls its own 136-core AGI CPU to chase AI hype train Turns out artificial general intelligence was a CPU this whole time Arm unveiled its first homegrown silicon — yes, an actual chip, not another shake-n-bake blueprint — during an event in San Francisco on Tuesday, and said that flagship customer Meta is set to deploy the 136-core CPU at scale later this year.… 🔗 Source: https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/03/24/arm_agi_cpu/ #arm

📰Arm Preparing Live Firmware Activation Support For Linux A new platform feature being worked on by Arm engineers for the Linux kernel is Live Firmware Activation to allow for updated firmware components to be deployed without requiring a system reboot... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Arm-Live-Firmware-Activation #arm#linux#kernel

📰 ARM NEON Accelerated CRC64 Optimization Shows Nearly 6x Improvement A patch posted today to the Linux kernel mailing list provides an ARM64-optimized CRC64-NVMe implementation for nearly a 6x improvement on modern Arm SoCs... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/ARM-NEON-CRC64-6x #linux#kernel#arm