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📰AMD Preps More GFX12.1 Enablement For Linux 7.1, Initial VCN 5.0.2 & JPEG 5.0.2 IP AMD today sent out another batch of AMDGPU kernel graphics driver and AMDKFD kernel compute driver changes to DRM-Next ahead of next month's Linux 7.1 merge window... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-More-GFX12.1-Linux-7.1 #kernel#linux#amd

📰 GParted Live 1.8.1 Released With Linux Kernel 6.19 GParted Live 1.8.1, a bootable Linux system for disk partitioning, is out with Linux kernel 6.19, Debian Sid updates, and the stable GParted 1.8.1 release. 🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/gparted-live-1-8-1-released-with-linux-kernel-6-19/ #kernel#linux#debian

📰 Linux MGLRU Improvements Net A 30% Increase For MongoDB, More Than 100% On HDDs It's been a while since having any improvements to talk about for the MGLRU multi-gen LRU functionality for the Linux kernel to optimize page reclamation and help with system performance especially when enduring memory pressure. But this week a Tencent engineer posted some very promising patches for further enhancing this kernel feature... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-MGLRU-30p-MongoDB #linux#kernel

📰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

📰 Imagination's Open-Source PowerVR Vulkan Driver Now Plays Nicely With Zink OpenGL The past several years Imagination Tech has been investing in an upstream and open-source DRM kernel graphics driver as well as a PowerVR Vulkan driver in Mesa. Their Mesa focus has exclusively been on the PowerVR Vulkan driver with the plans all along to use the Zink generic OpenGL-on-Vulkan implementation. With next quarter's Mesa 26. 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/PowerVR-Vulkan-Does-Zink #opensource#kernel

📰 AMD Preps More Graphics Driver Code For Linux 7.1 Last week yet more AMDGPU kernel graphics driver updates were submitted to DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 7.1 merge window happening in April... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/More-AMDGPU-For-Linux-7.1 #linux#kernel#amd

📰 SparkyLinux 2026.03 Tiamat Released Based on Debian Testing Forky SparkyLinux 2026.03 has been released, featuring updated Debian Testing packages, Linux kernel 6.19, and refreshed rolling ISO images. 🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/sparkylinux-2026-03-tiamat-released-based-on-debian-testing-forky/ #kernel#debian#linux

📰 Linux 7.0 Lands Improvements To Deal With Upcoming Rust Changes, Build Reproducibility Merged to mainline yesterday for Linux 7.0 were yet more Rust changes in preparing for upcoming Rust releases as well as enhancing the kernel build reproducibility when engaging the Rust code... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.0-rc4-More-Rust #kernel#linux

📰 Google Now Using AutoFDO To Enhance Android's Linux Kernel Performance Google's Android LLVM toolchain team shared publicly this week that they have begun making use of AutoFDO for automatic feedback directed optimizations of their Linux kernel build used by Android... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Android-Using-Linux-AutoFDO #kernel#android#linux

📰Linux 6.12 Through Linux 7.0 File-System Benchmarks For EXT4 + XFS Earlier this month were various Linux 7.0 file-system benchmarks showing how XFS is leading the race in the overall upstream Linux file-system performance on this forthcoming kernel. Stemming from that testing some premium supporters requested a fresh look at the historical performance of XFS as well as EXT4. So today's article is a look at how XFS and EXT4 have performed on every kernel release going back to Linux 6.12 LTS. 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-612-linux-70-xfs-ext4 #kernel#linux

📰Linux Kernel API Specification Framework Advances Past RFC Stage After going through five rounds of review under a Request For Comments (RFC) flag, today the latest round of Kernel API Specification Framework patches were sent out with the RFC flag removed... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Kernel-API-Spec-Framework #kernel#linux