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Linux 6.4 Goes Ahead And Starts Removing Old PCMCIA Drivers
Linux 6.4 Goes Ahead And Starts Removing Old PCMCIA Drivers

As noted back in March, the plan with Linux 6.4 is to start removing old, unused and unmaintained PCMCIA drivers. As part of that process to begin dropping old PCMCIA/CardBus driver code from the kernel, all of the PCMCIA "char" drivers were on the chopping block. Linus Torvalds pulled in the char/misc changes this week for Linux 6.4 and indeed those drivers are now removed. Meanwhile this pull introduced the new AMD CDX subsystem.

28 April 2023 - Linux 6.4 Droppiung Old PCMCIA Drivers - 10 Comments
Qualcomm QAIC Accelerator Driver Coming With Linux 6.4
Qualcomm QAIC Accelerator Driver Coming With Linux 6.4

Following the Intel Meteor Lake VPU driver being added to the new accelerator "accel" subsystem in Linux 6.3 along with converting over the Habana Labs AI driver, coming in Linux 6.4 is now the Qualcomm QAIC Cloud AI driver to this subsystem that lives within the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) umbrella.

6 April 2023 - Qualcomm QAIC100 - Add A Comment
System76 Teases Their "Virgo" In-House Manufactured Laptop
System76 Teases Their "Virgo" In-House Manufactured Laptop

While for a number of years now System76 has manufactured their own Thelio desktop line of Linux PCs from their facility in Denver, Colorado (and their Launch Keyboard), they have long talked up ambitions for eventually manufacturing their own Linux laptops rather relying on other white-label manufacturers as they currently do. Today a first glimpse of their in-house laptop prototyping was shared,

4 April 2023 - System76 Virgo - 60 Comments
Two More Gigabyte Motherboards See Sensor Monitoring With Linux 6.3
Two More Gigabyte Motherboards See Sensor Monitoring With Linux 6.3

Earlier this week I wrote about a budget Gigabyte motherboard for AMD Ryzen CPUs seeing Linux sensor monitoring support with the addition to the Gigabyte WMI sensors driver. Two more Gigabyte motherboards are now enabled for this driver in time for the Linux 6.3-rc5 release.

2 April 2023 - Gigabyte WMI Sensors Driver - Add A Comment
PCMCIA/CardBus To USB Drivers On The Chopping Block With Linux 6.4
PCMCIA/CardBus To USB Drivers On The Chopping Block With Linux 6.4

Earlier this month I wrote about Linux 6.4 planning to start removing old, unused, and unmaintained PCMCIA drivers. That began with the PCMCIA "char" drivers queued for removal in this upcoming kernel cycle and now joining them are removing two PCMCIA/CardBus to USB adapter drivers.

21 March 2023 - CardBus To USB Adapters - 23 Comments
36+ More ASUS Motherboards Will Enjoy Sensor Monitoring Support With Linux 6.4
36+ More ASUS Motherboards Will Enjoy Sensor Monitoring Support With Linux 6.4

In addition to the ASUS Z590 motherboards seeing sensor monitoring support with patches queued for Linux 6.4 that were talked about earlier this month on Phoronix, the latest nct6775 driver activity now queued in the hardware monitoring subsystem's hwmon-next branch is allowing support for another three dozen ASUS motherboards.

20 March 2023 - nct6775 - 8 Comments
Qualcomm Publishes Open-Source Compiler & User-Space For Their Cloud AI Accelerator
Qualcomm Publishes Open-Source Compiler & User-Space For Their Cloud AI Accelerator

Last month Qualcomm published updated patches for their Cloud AI 100 kernel driver to support this inference accelerator. The Qualcomm engineers said at the time that their user-space driver and associated compiler would be published shortly. That panned out and the user-space portion of this open-source AI inference stack was recently published.

16 March 2023 - Open-Source QAIC User-Space - 4 Comments
ASUS Unveils The Tinker V As Their First RISC-V Board
ASUS Unveils The Tinker V As Their First RISC-V Board

For over a half-decade ASUS has been selling the Tinker Board devices as their line of Raspberry Pi alternatives. To date the ASUS Tinker Board single board computers have all been Arm-based while now they have launched their first RISC-V board, the Tinker V.

14 March 2023 - ASUS Tinker V - 35 Comments
Intel Has More CXL Improvements Ready For Linux 6.3
Intel Has More CXL Improvements Ready For Linux 6.3

Intel engineers continue carrying out much of the upstream Linux kernel enablement for the Compute Express Link (CXL) subsystem for supporting this high-speed open standard for servers. For the Linux 6.3 cycle is yet more feature work ready for the mainline kernel.

23 February 2023 - Compute Express Link - Add A Comment
Patches Posted For Enabling WiFi/Bluetooth With The Once Interesting MIPS Creator CI20
Patches Posted For Enabling WiFi/Bluetooth With The Once Interesting MIPS Creator CI20

These days the MIPS architecture is dead but eight years ago when the Raspberry Pi, the PandaBoard, and other early Arm single board computers were enjoying the limelight, Imagination Technologies decided to release the Creator CI20 MIPS SBC. It's been years since hearing of the CI20 or dusting off my CI20, but a new patch series this week tries to get the mainline Linux kernel to enjoy working WiFi and Bluetooth for this MIPS single board computer.

16 February 2023 - MIPS CI20 - 6 Comments
More Aquacomputer Devices To Be Supported With Linux 6.3
More Aquacomputer Devices To Be Supported With Linux 6.3

Over the past two years since an Aquacomputer HWMON driver was first introduced to the mainline Linux kernel, it's continued to be extended to support more products from this German PC cooling/peripheral retailer. With Linux 6.3 additional Aquacomputer components are now supported by this kernel driver.

9 February 2023 - Aquacomputer - Add A Comment
Etnaviv Driver With Linux 6.3 Enables VeriSilicon NPU Cores
Etnaviv Driver With Linux 6.3 Enables VeriSilicon NPU Cores

The Etnaviv DRM driver started out in the Linux kernel providing reverse-engineered kernel graphics driver support for Vivante graphics IP developed by VeriSilicon and found within various SoCs. With the upcoming Linux 6.3 cycle the Etnaviv DRM driver is adding support for VeriSilicon's Neural Network Processor (NPU) IP.

9 February 2023 - Linux 6.3 Etnaviv - Add A Comment
Linux Disabling High Resolution Scrolling For Logitech Devices Connected Via USB
Linux Disabling High Resolution Scrolling For Logitech Devices Connected Via USB

While there's been a multi-year effort for Wayland high resolution scrolling, support by the desktop environments for this functionality, and all the other infrastructure work, high resolution scrolling is proving to still be a challenge for Linux in 2023. The latest is now the Linux kernel dropping Logitech high resolution scrolling for mice connected via USB until further improvements can be made.

8 February 2023 - Broken Mouse Problems - 32 Comments
memtest86+ 6.10 Released With UEFI Secure Boot Signing, Headless EFI
memtest86+ 6.10 Released With UEFI Secure Boot Signing, Headless EFI

Last October marked the release of memtest86+ 6.0 as the first major update to this bootable, open-source RAM testing software in nearly a decade. The memtest86+ 6.0 release marked a rewrite of the software while out today is the first update to that widely-used RAM testing software.

3 February 2023 - memtest86+ 6.10 - 18 Comments
Kalray Posts Initial Patches For Bringing Up Linux On Their KV3-1 "Coolidge" DPU SoC
Kalray Posts Initial Patches For Bringing Up Linux On Their KV3-1 "Coolidge" DPU SoC

While back in 2018 when the C-SKY architecture was merged to the Linux kernel it was talked about possibly being the last new CPU arch/port to be mainlined given the growing success of RISC-V even back then, it looks like that upstream kernel developer belief might not hold true. France-based Kalray that focuses on high-performance, data-centric computing from cloud to edge posted their initial Linux kernel patches today for their "KVX" kernel port to get the kernel running on their MPPA3-80 "Coolidge" DPU SoC with the KV3-1 CPU architecture.

3 January 2023 - Kalray KVX Linux Port - 2 Comments
Allwinner D1/D1s Platform Support Moves Closer To Mainline Linux
Allwinner D1/D1s Platform Support Moves Closer To Mainline Linux

The D1 is Allwinner's first SoC based on a RISC-V core design. While the Allwinner D1 isn't powerful at all, it's appearance in low-cost boards, RISC-V based design, and the Allwinner development community has made this an attractive entry-level RISC-V target. While various Linux distributions are already supporting D1-based boards, the mainline support for the D1/D1s platform looks like it will finally be merged in 2023.

1 January 2023 - Allwinner D1 - 2 Comments

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