Michael Larabel

Back in April Mesa deprecated Gallium Nine alongside the XA state tracker used for X.Org Server acceleration. Gallium-XA was developed by VMware for use with their DDX driver for accelerating X11 within their virtualized environments. XA isn’t really used these […]

Sent out today as part of last minute x86 platform driver fixes for Linux 6.15 is a rather important power-savings fix for Intel Arrow Lake U and Arrow Lake H laptops. Ilpo Järvinen sent out what’s expected to be the

Michael Larabel is the principal author of Phoronix.com and founded the site in 2004 with a focus on enriching the Linux hardware experience. Michael has written more than 20,000 articles covering the state of Linux hardware support, Linux performance, graphics

Ahead of the Linux 6.15 kernel stable release expected later today, more input driver updates have been merged for this new kernel version that include introducing compatibility with some newer gaming controllers. Similar to the XPad driver additions earlier this

ConfigFS is seeing a new maintainer step up to manage this RAM-based file-system. With Andreas Hindborg taking over maintainership of ConfigFS he’s also landing patches authored by him for adding Rust programming language support to this file-system. ConfigFS is a

With Linux 6.15 there are many exciting new features for this kernel version expected to debut as stable later today. Following the Linux 6.15 stable release, the Linux 6.16 merge window will then open. Here is an early look at

Ahead of the Linux 6.16 merge window opening, several early pull requests were already sent out this week in advance of Linux 6.15 expected for release later today. Among those early feature pulls was Btrfs maintainer David Sterba sending out

The Dell Latitude 7455 (X1E-80-100) is the latest laptop powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite SoC seeing patches for enabling Linux support. Sent out today to the Linux kernel mailing list were the Device Tree patches and other changes

Merged on Friday for the GCC 16 compiler is better handling of the “-march=” compiler option on RISC-V systems when seeing multiple -march= hits and wanting to specify the RISC-V CPU name for targeting. Robin Dapp of RISC-V CPU firm

With Ubuntu 25.10 planning to ship the Rust-based Coreutils “uutils” by default, it’s a big year ahead for this alternative to GNU Coreutils. In furthering along the project’s goals, today marks the Rust Coreutils v0.1 release. Succeeding the Rust Coreutils