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📰 RISC-V XIP Linux Feature Being Removed After It Keeps Breaking For Months At A Time Introduced in Linux 5.13 back in 2021 was eXecute In Place "XIP" support for RISC-V that allows for the kernel image to be executed from ROM. The intent is on allowing the kernel to run from non-volatile storage like NOR flash that is directly addressable by the CPU and to reduce RAM usage. But after RISC-V XIP support is broken for months at a time, the feature is now set to be retired from the mainline kernel... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/RISC-V-XIP-Being-Removed #linux#kernel

📰 Patch to end i486 support hits Linux kernel merge queue After a year of patchwork, maintainers look ready to start retiring 486-class CPUs It's taken nearly a full version number to get the pieces in order, but the long-awaited end of 486 chip support in the Linux kernel appears to be nigh with Linux 7.1's release later this year. … 🔗 Source: https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/04/06/patch_to_end_i486_support/ #linux#kernel

📰Linux 7.0-rc7 Released With Improved Docs For AI Agents, WiFi Driver Performance Fix Timed for Easter this year is the seventh weekly release candidate for the Linux 7.0 kernel. If all goes well, Linux 7.0 stable will be out next week... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.0-rc7-Released #linux#kernel

📰 Razer Wolverine V3 Pro & Betop KP50 Controllers To Be Supported By Linux 7.0 Ahead of tomorrow's Linux 7.0-rc7 kernel release, this week's batch of input fixes were sent in and merged. Besides a few small input fixes are also some new device IDs and quirks for hardware now to be handled by Linux 7.0... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.0-rc7-Input-Fixes #linux#kernel

📰 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

📰 Arch-Based Omarchy 3.5 Brings Full Intel Panther Lake Support Arch-based Omarchy 3.5 adds Intel Panther Lake support with a patched Linux kernel 6.19, Dell XPS 2026 fixes, and new features. 🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/arch-based-omarchy-3-5-brings-full-intel-panther-lake-support/ #linux#arch#kernel#intel

📰 Intel Linux NPU Driver 1.32 Adds Wildcat Lake Support Intel today released their Linux NPU Driver 1.32 as the user-space driver components that interacts with the upstream IVPU kernel accelerator driver for supporting the NPU hardware with Core Ultra processors... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-NPU-Linux-Driver-1.32 #linux#kernel#intel

📰 Gentoo Releases Experimental Images Using GNU/Hurd Following an April Fools' Day tease of Gentoo claiming they were going to switch to GNU Hurd as their primary kernel moving forward, they have now acknowledged the joke but in fact also announcing there are now experimental Gentoo GNU/Hurd images available... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Gentoo-GNU-Hurd-Experimental #gnu#kernel

📰 Meta Has A New Linux Optimization To Avoid Throttling TCP Throughput Unnecessarily Meta's great Linux engineering team have been working through some fresh performance optimizations recently from optimizing /proc/interrupts outputs to renewing their investment in jemalloc. A new Linux kernel patch this week provides another optimization to avoid a possible situation of throttling the TCP throughput unnecessarily on Linux systems... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-VM-Pressure-TCP-Through #linux#kernel

📰 Systemd-Free Artix Linux Sees First Release in 2026 with XLibre and PipeWire Artix Linux 2026.04 distribution is now available for download with XLibre and PipeWire by default, Linux kernel 6.19, and more. Here's what's new! 🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/systemd-free-artix-linux-sees-first-release-in-2026-with-xlibre-and-pipewire #linux#systemd#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

📰 The Linux Kernel's Minimum Rust Version Supported Prepares For Rust 1.85 Baseline The Rust-For-Linux crew is preparing to raise the minimum supported Rust version for building the Linux kernel and and similarly also bumping the minimum supported version of bindgen, the tool for generating Rust FFI bindings for C code in the kernel... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Preps-For-Rust-1.85-Base #linux#kernel