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Tyr Driver Being Submitted For Linux 6.18 As Rust-Based Arm Mali Driver

Phoronix - Wed, 09/17/2025 - 04:30
The big set of Rust DRM kernel graphics/display driver updates were sent out to DRM-Next ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.18 kernel. Most notable with this pull request is merging the Tyr driver, the new open-source and Rust-based DRM driver for Arm Mali GPUs...

AMD Begins Plumbing APCI C4 Support In The Linux Kernel For Greater Power Savings

Phoronix - Wed, 09/17/2025 - 01:00
AMD engineers have begun ironing out ACPI C4 support for the Linux kernel in order to provide greater power savings on newer AMD Ryzen platforms that have begun to support this deeper sleep state...

Intel Xeon 6980P "Granite Rapids" Linux Performance One Year Later

Phoronix - Tue, 09/16/2025 - 22:00
Next week marks one year since the launch of the Xeon 6900P series Granite Rapids server processors. Given the occasion and a new server in the lab, here is a look at how Intel's Granite Rapids top-end Xeon 6980P server processors are performing one year after the original introduction with a production-grade server platform as well as incorporating all of the Linux software improvements over the past year.

AMD ROCm 7.0 Officially Released With Many Significant Improvements

Phoronix - Tue, 09/16/2025 - 21:00
Overnight the AMD ROCm 7.0 release tags began appearing within the public Git repositories. Now AMD ROCm 7.0 is officially released as a very significant step forward for AMD's open-source GPU compute stack for better competing against NVIDIA's CUDA ecosystem...

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