More Intel Panther Lake Graphics Device IDs Surface In Open-Source Linux Driver
Intel’s Linux graphics driver engineers continue working on enabling support for the Xe3 integrated graphics premiering with next-gen Core Ultra “Panther Lake” SoCs. Today a number of additional PCI device IDs have been merged to the Mesa 25.2 code to reflect the growing family… ⌘ Read more

Kexec HandOver “KHO” Merged For Linux 6.16
Kexec HandOver “KHO” was merged for the in-development Linux 6.16 kernel as part of all the memory management “MM” changes. Kexec HandOver is providing the basis for some nifty low-level features moving forward… ⌘ Read more

Open-Source TPDE Can Compile Code 10-20x Faster Than LLVM
Researchers from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have announced TPDE as a fast and adaptable compiler back-end framework. The code is now open-source and they are talking up some very wild compile time improvements… Compiling code for x86_64 and AArch64 with TPDE can be ten to twenty times faster than using the LLVM Clang compiler… ⌘ Read more

Linux 6.16 Will Now Conveniently Report Hard/Soft Lockups & RCU Stall Counts
A very convenient addition to Linux 6.16 for system administrators is reporting to user-space via sysfs counters for the number of hard and soft lock-ups as well as RCU stalls… ⌘ Read more

Power & Performance Tuning For The Framework 13 With AMD Ryzen AI 300 Series
In April we looked at the Framework 13 updated for the AMD Ryzen AI 300 series and its great out-of-the-box performance and nice power efficiency of Strix Point. Via ACPI platform profiles the power/performance mode can be tuned if desiring a longer battery life or preferring even greater performance. Today’s article is looking at that power/performance impact of the different ACPI platform profiles available on the Framework 13 mot … ⌘ Read more

NFS Server Supporting Larger I/O Block Size With Linux 6.16
For those running an Network File System “NFS” server, the upcoming Linux 6.16 kernel will allow optionally enabling a larger payload size that may yield better performance. Eventually the default payload size may be increased if all goes well from user feedback and testing… ⌘ Read more

Phoronix Turns 21 This Week - Show Your Support For Linux Hardware Reviews
This week on 5 June marks 21 years since I started Phoronix.com for providing Linux hardware reviews and open-source news. In marking the 21st birthday of Phoronix is a special Phoronix Premium offering if you wish to show your support and hopefully provide for a successful year… ⌘ Read more

Mesa 25.2 Lands RADV VCN5 Video Encode/Decode Support For RDNA4 GPUs
Posted for the AMDGPU Linux kernel driver in early 2024 was the initial Video Core Next 5.0 IP enablement that was part of their bring-up for the Radeon RX 9000 “RDNA4” graphics processors. It’s taken until now though for enabling the VCN5 video encode/decode support within the user-space code for the RADV driver with Mesa 25.2… ⌘ Read more

Intel TDX Host Support Merged For KVM With Linux 6.16
While Intel Trust Domain Extensions (TDX) has been around since Sapphire Rapids with select SKUs and with widespread availability since Emerald Rapids in late 2023, only now with the Linux 6.16 kernel debuting in H2’2025 is there going to be mainline kernel support for TDX on the host-side with the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM)… ⌘ Read more

Steam On Linux Use Hit A Recent High Of 2.69% During May
Valve just published the Steam Survey results for May 2025 with a nice increase for the Linux gaming marketshare… ⌘ Read more

Wine 10.9 Released With EGL Support For All Graphics Drivers
Wine 10.9 fell slightly off its bi-weekly Friday release rhythm with only debuting today, but in any event it’s now available for testing with the latest features for enjoying Windows games/applications on Linux and other platforms… ⌘ Read more

Intel Overclocking Watchdog Driver Merged For Linux 6.16
Merged today for the Linux 6.16 kernel were all of the Watchdog subsystem updates for monitoring system health and taking action such as rebooting if the system state goes bad. With the Linux 6.16 is the introduction of the Intel Overclocking Watchdog “OC WDT” driver… ⌘ Read more

Linux 6.15 Shipped With A Nasty Power Regression For Some Systems
The Linux 6.15 kernel that shipped as stable last week mistakenly shipped with a nasty CPU power regression for some systems. The issue is now fixed in Linux 6.16 Git and will be fixed shortly in the Linux 6.15 point releases… ⌘ Read more

Linux 6.16 Enables Support For Arm Scalable Matrix Extension “SME”
The Linux kernel had not enabled support for Arm Scalable Matrix Extension (SME) due to bugs, but with the in-development Linux 6.16 kernel those issues have been resolved and so SME can now be enabled for the rare SoCs having said hardware support… ⌘ Read more

Apparent Git Scripting Issue Raised Concerns Of Possible Malicious Linux Kernel Activity
The Linux 6.16 merge window this weekend suffered an unexpected twist this weekend when Linus Torvalds noticed some unusual Git activity by a longtime Linux kernel developer. The issue is still being sorted through but it would appear that the possible malicious activity came down to some scripting issues around Git… ⌘ Read more

FreeBSD 14.3 RC1 Brings OCI Images To Docker & GitHub
The release candidate of FreeBSD 14.3 is now available for testing ahead of the official operating system release this month… ⌘ Read more

Snapdragon X Elite & AMD’s Grado + Strix Halo CPUs Captured Phoronix Reader Interest In May
May was another busy month when it comes to Linux hardware and software milestones albeit depressing when looking at the ongoing state of the web/ad industry. In any event there were 25 featured Linux hardware reviews / multi-page benchmark articles and another 268 original Linux-related news articles all written by your’s truly for the month. Here is a look back at what excited Phoronix readers the most during May… ⌘ Read more

OpenBMC 2.18 Released With Many More Motherboard Ports Upstreamed
OpenBMC 2.18 released on Friday as the newest version of this Linux Foundation project providing an open-source baseboard management controller (BMC) firmware stack implementation. In recent years OpenBMC has been enjoying increasing success in deploying to server platforms from the mega hyperscalers to the more prominent OEM/ODM vendors seeing increasing customer demand for open-source BMC as part of broader open-source firmware interest from the ind … ⌘ Read more

Linux 6.16 Now Enforces A Minimum Compiler Version Of GCC 8
To compile the Linux x86/x86_64 kernel has already enforced a minimum compiler version of GCC 8 while now with Linux 6.16 this requirement is in place for all other architectures. The GCC 8 and GNU Binutils 2.30 baseline for all Linux kernel architectures now allows removing a number of old workarounds from the codebase… ⌘ Read more

Linux 6.16 Enabling Support For 11 More SoCs, Sophgo SG2044 & More Snapdragon X Laptops
All of the big SoC and DeviceTree board updates have been submitted for the Linux 6.16 kernel including support for a number of new Arm SoCs as well as a RISC-V server SoC. Plus many new board additions, including continued work on bettering the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite/Plus laptop support under Linux… ⌘ Read more

AMD ROCm 7.0 To Align HIP C++ “Even More Closely With CUDA”
In a blog post dated for 28 May that was only made public on Friday night followed by a new ROCm build tag, AMD engineers have begun sharing more details publicly about changes coming for ROCm 7.0. In particular, the HIP 7.0 interface is going to be “aligning HIP C++ even more closely with CUDA.”.. ⌘ Read more

AMD ROCm 7.0 To Align HIP C++ “Even More Closely With CUDA”
In a blog post dated for 28 May that was only made public on Friday night followed by a new ROCm build tag, AMD engineers have begun sharing more details publicly about changes coming for ROCm 7.0. In particular, the HIP 7.0 interface is going to be “aligning HIP C++ even more closely with CUDA.”.. ⌘ Read more

Linux’s Trusted Security Manager Sees First Updates In Over A Year
Merged back in late 2023 for Linux 6.7 was a cross-vendor solution for confidential computing attestation reports with the Linux Trusted Security Manager (TSM). In the succeeding kernel releases there weren’t any further TSM updates issued but now for Linux 6.16 there finally is renewed work on this confidential computing code… ⌘ Read more

CachyOS Improves NVIDIA Driver Loading, Better Handheld Device Support
The popular Arch Linux derived CachyOS operating system that is known for its nice out-of-the-box performance and other optimizations is out with a new build. CachyOS is closing out the month of May with some nice refinements in its newest ISO refresh of the year… ⌘ Read more

KDE Plasma 6.5 Will Help Reduce RAM Use By Keeping Less Wallpaper Copies Around
Along with this week bringing the Plasma 6.4 Beta 2 desktop, there’s been other changes merged for Plasma 6.4 as well as some early feature work on Plasma 6.5… ⌘ Read more

Intel PTC, Intel EAS & AMD Requested CPU Min Freq Features Merged For Linux 6.16
The many power management subsystem updates and related changes have been merged for the in-development Linux 6.16 kernel… ⌘ Read more

Intel Prepping Linux Driver For Future Data Center GPUs Based On Battlemage
Intel engineers are preparing the Linux kernel for future Data Center GPUs. This work confirms new Intel Data Center GPUs coming based on Battlemage… ⌘ Read more

Alpine Linux 3.22 Replaces Gummiboot With systemd-efistub
Alpine Linux 3.22 is now available as the newest version of this Linux distribution popular for use with containers and embedded purposes due to its small, simple, and secure focus… ⌘ Read more

WD_BLACK SN8100 2TB PCIe Gen 5.0 NVMe SSD Linux Benchmarks
Sandisk earlier this month announced the WD_BLACK SN8100 as what they claim is the current world’s fastest PCIe Gen 5.0 NVMe SSD for consumers. Given how well the WD_BLACK SN850X performs under Linux as a PCIe Gen 4.0 drive, I decided to buy a WD_BLACK SN8100 for some Linux testing at Phoronix to compare to various other drives in the lab. Here is a preliminary look at the WD_BLACK SN8100 2TB performance under Ubuntu Linux. ⌘ Read more

AMD Virtual TPM Driver Merged For Linux 6.16 To Enhance Confidential Computing
The latest upstream Linux kernel improvement for AMD’s Secure Encrypted Virtualization “SEV” is the introduction of a virtual TPM driver… ⌘ Read more

Radeon Software For Linux Dropping AMD’s Proprietary OpenGL/Vulkan Drivers
With how well the open-source and upstream AMD Radeon Linux graphics driver stack is these days between the mainline Linux kernel and Mesa, the Radeon Software for Linux packaged driver releases are not usually notable these days on Phoronix… The packaged Radeon Software for Linux drivers haven’t been popular with gamers/enthusiasts in years given how good the upstream support is and those packaged bits mostly useful for those jus … ⌘ Read more

AMDGPU High Priority Graphics User Queue Support Merged For Mesa 25.2
For making use of AMDGPU user queue functionality, the latest Mesa user-space side work has been merged for Mesa 25.2 to enable support for high priority graphics user queues… ⌘ Read more

Intel SGX With Linux 6.16 Less Likely To Cause Fatal Machine Checks
Intel’s Software Guard Extensions (SGX) updates for the in-development Linux 6.16 contain a fix so SGX is now less likely to cause a fatal machine check… ⌘ Read more

Coredump Socket Support Merged For Linux 6.16
As an alternative to Coredumps dumping to a file or a pipe connected to a user-mode helper process, Linux 6.16 is introducing the ability to send Coredumps over an AF_UNIX socket… ⌘ Read more

Intel IPU7 Firmware Binaries Upstreamed For Lunar Lake Webcameras
Overnight Intel upstreamed their IPU7 firmware binaries into the linux-firmware.git repository where Linux distributions will then be able to pick them up for easy consumption. IPU7 is for their latest Image Processing Unit for some web cameras on their latest-generation Lunar Lake platform… ⌘ Read more

F2FS Improvements Merged For Linux 6.16
Following the exciting EXT4 performance work, XFS atomic writes, and other exciting file-system pull requests submitted for the ongoing Linux 6.16 merge window, the Flash-Friendly File-System (F2FS) changes have been submitted and merged for this next kernel version… ⌘ Read more

OBS Studio 31.1 Bringing Multitrack Video Support To Linux
OBS Studio 31.1 Beta 1 is out today as the newest version of this popular cross-platform and open-source solution for gaming live streaming, desktop screencasting, and similar screencasting/live-streaming uses… ⌘ Read more

Linux 6.16 Adds Support For Graceful Host Removal For eMMC & SD Cards
The MMC subsystem feature changes have been merged for the Linux 6.16 kernel. Interestingly and surprisingly, it’s not until now that the Linux kernel has properly supported the graceful host removal for eMMC and SD cards… ⌘ Read more

NVIDIA 575.57.08 Linux Stable Driver Released With Smooth Motion & Other Updates
NVIDIA just released their v575.57.08 driver as the first stable Linux driver in their R575 release branch… ⌘ Read more

Linux 6.16 Networking Brings Some Big Performance Improvements & OpenVPN Driver
There is a lot of exciting networking changes to find with the in-development Linux 6.16 kernel both for wired and wireless devices as well as some exciting core networking improvements/optimizations… ⌘ Read more

AMD EPYC 4585PX & EPYC 4565P With DDR5-4800 vs. DDR5-5600 Performance
One of the many advantages with the newly announced EPYC 4005 series for entry-level servers is support for DDR5-5600 ECC memory compared to the current Xeon 6300 series being limited to DDR5-4800 memory. With the launch-day EPYC 4005 “Grado” benchmarks earlier this month of the AMD EPYC 4585PX and EPYC 4565P I was running with DDR5-5600 ECC memory modules. But for those wondering about the performance when using DDR5-4800 comparable to … ⌘ Read more

KDE Plasma 6.4 Beta 2 Brings XWayland Fixes
The second beta release of KDE’s Plasma 6.4 desktop is now available for testing ahead of the official release in June… ⌘ Read more

Linux 6.16 Crypto Brings Faster AES-XTS On AVX-512 CPUs, Intel QAT Gen6 Support
The cryptography subsystem updates have been merged for the start of the Linux 6.16 cycle. Notable with the crypto updates this round are more performance optimizations for Intel and AMD CPUs with AVX-512 and also enabling next-generation Intel QAT accelerators… ⌘ Read more

Out-Of-Date OpenH264 On Fedora Is Frustrating Users With A High Severity CVE
While OpenH264 support coming to Fedora was widely celebrated as part of offering a better codec experience on Fedora Linux, an increasing number of Fedora users have grown frustrated with the OpenH264 packaging in that it’s been out-of-date for several months with a high severity security vulnerability… ⌘ Read more

EROFS Lands Support For Tapping Intel QAT Accelerators
There is a lot of exciting file-system changes landing for the Linux 6.16 kernel… EXT4 brings a “really stupendous performance” change, Btrfs also brings some performance improvements, XFS landed atomic writes, and Bcachefs continues stabilizing. For the EROFS read-only file-system its changes have been merged and includes support for Intel QAT acceleration… ⌘ Read more

Canonical To Release Monthly Ubuntu Snapshots For Testing & Building Out Automation
Canonical is sticking to Ubuntu Linux releases every six months and a Long Term Support (LTS) release every two years, but a new change to their development process is that they are now working to release monthly Ubuntu snapshots of their testing stream… ⌘ Read more

More Intel Battlemage Graphics PCI IDs Added To Mesa OpenGL/Vulkan Drivers
Intel engineers have added yet more PCI graphics device IDs for Battlemage to their open-source driver code within Mesa for Iris OpenGL and ANV Vulkan driver support… ⌘ Read more

Intel Hardware Support Expanded In EDAC Drivers For Linux 6.16
With the Error Detection And Correction (EDAC) subsystem updates sent out this week for the Linux 6.16 kernel there is support for a number of newer Intel hardware platforms… ⌘ Read more

Mesa’s Rusticl Lands Support For Shared Virtual Memory & Intel Subgroups
Rusticl as Mesa’s Rust-based OpenCL driver implementation for Gallium3D drivers is ending the month of May on a high note… Merged this week was support for the Intel Subgroups OpenCL extension (cl_intel_subgroups) and before getting to that on my TODO list, an even bigger item was merged: Shared Virtual Memory (SVM) support… ⌘ Read more

VirtualBox 7.2 Beta Brings Windows 11 Arm Support, Source Code On GitHub
Oracle engineers have released the first public beta of the upcoming VirtualBox 7.2 virtualization software release for Windows, Linux, macOS, and Solaris systems… ⌘ Read more