Kernel Mode Articles & Reviews |
| Nouveau GeForce 400/500 Fermi On Linux 3.1 | Display Drivers | 2011-08-05 |
| Test Driving The QEMU-KVM KMS Driver | Display Drivers | 2011-04-19 |
| The Open-Source ATI Driver Is Becoming A Lot Faster | Display Drivers | 2011-01-13 |
| Talking About Kernel Mode-Setting | Display Drivers | 2010-06-16 |
| A Detailed Look At The ATI Linux Power Management | Display Drivers | 2010-05-11 |
| Catalyst vs. Mesa Performance With Ubuntu 10.04 | Display Drivers | 2010-03-29 |
| Intel KMS vs. UMS With Ubuntu 10.04 | Display Drivers | 2010-03-26 |
| ATI Radeon KMS vs. UMS With Ubuntu 10.04 | Display Drivers | 2010-03-18 |
| An Update On The Boot & Power Performance In Ubuntu 10.04 | Software | 2010-02-25 |
| Linux 2.6.32 Kernel Benchmarks | Software | 2009-11-27 |
| The Cost Of ATI Kernel Mode-Setting On Fedora 12 | Display Drivers | 2009-11-25 |
| Intel Linux Graphics Shine With Fedora 12 | Display Drivers | 2009-11-20 |
| ATI R600/700 3D Support In Fedora 12 | Display Drivers | 2009-10-26 |
| AMD R600/700 2D Performance: Open vs. Closed Drivers | Display Drivers | 2009-09-30 |
| Early Linux 2.6.31 Kernel Benchmarks | Software | 2009-07-08 |
| ATI Radeon Driver Re-Write Still Has Work Left | Display Drivers | 2009-06-12 |
| Testing Out ATI Kernel Mode-Setting On Ubuntu | Display Drivers | 2009-06-08 |
| The State Of The Wayland Display Server | Software | 2009-05-20 |
| Does A Greedy Intel Driver Improve Performance? | Display Drivers | 2009-04-15 |
| Ubuntu 9.04 Beta vs. Fedora 11 Beta | Operating Systems | 2009-03-31 |
| Moblin V2 vs. Ubuntu Netbook Remix vs. Ubuntu MID | Operating Systems | 2009-03-30 |
| Nouveau Companion 43 | Display Drivers | 2009-03-19 |
| Intel On Rebuilding The X.Org Linux Desktop | Display Drivers | 2009-02-09 |
| Nouveau Companion 42 | Display Drivers | 2009-01-20 |
| Intel Linux Graphics Performance Q4'08 | Display Drivers | 2008-12-23 |
| Nouveau Companion 41 | Display Drivers | 2008-12-11 |
| Wayland: A New X Server For Linux | Software | 2008-11-03 |
| Nouveau Companion 40 | Display Drivers | 2008-10-29 |
| A Closer Look At Red Hat's Plymouth | Software | 2008-10-28 |
| The State of Kernel Mode-Setting | Display Drivers | 2008-10-01 |
| A Preview Of Kernel-Based Mode-Setting | Display Drivers | 2008-04-19 |
| Gallium3D Status Update Q1'08 | Display Drivers | 2008-02-24 |
Kernel Mode Linux & Open-Source News |
| Legacy NVIDIA xf86-video-nv Driver Sees First Release In Years | NVIDIA | 2026-04-26 |
| Imagination's Open-Source PowerVR Vulkan Driver Now Plays Nicely With Zink OpenGL | Mesa | 2026-03-16 |
| Intel Begins Preparations For Xe3P Upstreaming To Open-Source OpenGL & Vulkan Drivers | Intel | 2026-03-04 |
| Linux 6.19 Features Include Many Benefits For Intel & AMD Users | Linux Kernel | 2026-02-07 |
| KMS Recovery Mechanism Being Worked On For Linux Display Drivers | Linux Kernel | 2026-02-07 |
| Fedora 44 Cleared To Replace Kernel Console With User-Space KMSCON | Fedora | 2025-12-03 |
| Fedora 44 Looking At Replacing FBCON With KMSCON As Default VT Console | Fedora | 2025-11-14 |
| Intel Vulkan Driver Adds Support For Xe Driver's Low Latency Hint | Intel | 2025-10-17 |
| Mesa 25.3 Merges Vulkan WSI Support For Using Atomic Mode-Setting | Mesa | 2025-07-22 |
| Intel Compute Runtime 25.27.34303.5 Brings Support For Wildcat Lake & BMG G31 | Intel | 2025-07-18 |
| Intel Panther Lake Xe3 Integrated Graphics Firmware Upstreamed | Intel | 2025-07-07 |
| Intel Continues Working On Linear Address Space Separation "LASS" For Linux | Intel | 2025-06-20 |
| AMD Releases ROCm 6.4 Without Any Official RDNA4 Support | AMD | 2025-04-11 |
| NVIDIA 570.124.04 Linux Driver Brings Additional Fixes | NVIDIA | 2025-02-27 |
| Fedora 42 Boot Splash Screen Looks To Workaround GPU Drivers Taking Too Long To Load | Fedora | 2025-01-17 |
| NVIDIA Made Great Strides With Their Open-Source Kernel Code & Wayland Support In 2024 | NVIDIA | 2024-12-28 |
| Intel Begins Readying Graphics Driver Changes For The Linux 6.14 Kernel | Intel | 2024-12-12 |
| UMD Direct Submission "Proof Of Concept" For The Intel Xe Linux Driver | Intel | 2024-12-07 |
| GNOME Mutter Switches To High Priority KMS Thread To Avoid Crashes | GNOME | 2024-11-15 |
| Linux 6.12-rc5 Disabling Intel's Linear Address Masking "LAM" Due To Security Concerns | Linux Kernel | 2024-10-27 |
| Linus Torvalds Growing Frustrated By Buggy Hardware & Theoretical CPU Attacks | Linux Kernel | 2024-10-21 |
| Intel Compute Runtime 24.26.30049.6 Provides New APIs & Extensions | Intel | 2024-07-29 |
| Linux 6.10 Released With New Panthor Graphics Driver, Radeon Display Support On RISC-V | Linux Kernel | 2024-07-14 |
| GNOME 47 Alpha Released With Accent Color Support & Wayland-Only Build Option | GNOME | 2024-07-13 |
| Linux BSOD, NVIDIA Linux Excitement, Intel Sierra Forest & Other June Highlights | Phoronix | 2024-07-01 |
| GNOME Shell & Mutter See "47.alpha" Releases With Many Big Changes | GNOME | 2024-06-30 |
| NVIDIA Exploring Ways To Better Support An Upstream Kernel Driver | Nouveau | 2024-06-13 |
| Newer AMD Radeon Graphics Cards Now Work On RISC-V With Linux 6.10 | Linux Kernel | 2024-05-23 |
| Linux 6.10 Features Expected From The NTSYNC Driver To Performance Optimizations | Linux Kernel | 2024-05-12 |
| Linux 6.10 Preps A Kernel Panic Screen - Sort Of A "Blue Screen of Death" | Linux Kernel | 2024-04-19 |
| Wayland Protocols 1.35 Introduces Alpha Modifier Protocol, Tablet-V2 As Stable | Wayland | 2024-04-17 |
| Intel VA-API 2.21 Library Adds Intel Xe Kernel Driver Support, AV1 & Windows Fixes | Multimedia | 2024-03-26 |
| Rust Bindings Posted For KMS Drivers, VKMS Ported To Rust | Linux Kernel | 2024-03-23 |
| GNOME Mutter 46 Beta A Win For Gamers & VM Users, Other Last Minute Changes Too | GNOME | 2024-02-11 |
| Intel CR 23.39.27427.23 Delivers Latest Open-Source GPU Compute Capabilities | Intel | 2024-01-11 |
| Intel Posts SVM Patches For Xe Kernel Graphics Driver | Intel | 2023-12-21 |
| Linux 6.8 Dropping Support For Very Old Graphics Drivers | Linux Kernel | 2023-12-07 |
| Linux 6.8 To Add Atomic Mode-Setting Mouse Hotspots, Atomic Async Page Flip | Linux Kernel | 2023-12-03 |
| Mesa 24.0 PVR Vulkan Driver Adds Support For New PowerVR Kernel Driver | Mesa | 2023-12-02 |
| The Linux Kernel Preparing To Drop Infrastructure For Old & Obsolete Graphics Drivers | Linux Kernel | 2023-11-22 |
| The VKMS Display Driver Continues Evolving Nicely For Headless Linux Systems | Linux Kernel | 2023-10-24 |
| GNOME 45's Mutter Implements A Dedicated KMS Thread | GNOME | 2023-08-07 |
| Fake Sparse Support Merged For Intel's Vulkan Linux Driver To Make More Games Playable | Intel | 2023-08-03 |
| Linux Display Driver Worked On For A Popular & Low-Cost RISC-V SoC | Linux Kernel | 2023-08-01 |
| Open-Source Graphics Driver Updates Begin Queuing For Linux 6.6 | Linux Kernel | 2023-07-13 |
| Intel Continues Prepping Meteor Lake Graphics On Linux, Adds VRR eDP Support | Intel | 2023-06-05 |
| Intel Arc Graphics A750/A770 Quick Linux Competition With The Radeon RX 7600 | Intel | 2023-05-26 |
| Improved AMD Color Management Being Worked On For The Steam Deck | Valve | 2023-04-24 |
| Intel Posts Linux Patches Enabling LASS KVM Support | Intel | 2023-04-20 |
| Upstream Mesa Close To Supporting The Experimental Xe DRM Kernel Driver | Intel | 2023-04-12 |
| Intel Vulkan Driver Squeezes In A Few More Performance Optimizations For Mesa 23.1 | Intel | 2023-04-05 |
| GNOME Shell & Mutter 44 Release Candidates Bring Last Minute Changes | GNOME | 2023-03-07 |
| Linux 6.3 printk Changes Prepare For Threaded/Atomic Consoles | Linux Kernel | 2023-02-21 |
| LoongArch Linux Patches Enable KVM Virtualization | Virtualization | 2023-02-15 |
| Intel's Mesa Drivers Begin Preparing For The New Xe Kernel Driver | Intel | 2023-02-09 |
| Linux 6.3 Features Expected From AMD Auto IBRS To Pluton CRB TPM2 & Dropping Old Code | Linux Kernel | 2023-01-23 |
| Linux 6.3 To Remove Obsolete GPU Drivers: ATI Rage 128, 3Dfx, S3 Savage, i810 & More | Linux Kernel | 2023-01-19 |
| Intel's Mesa Drivers Begin Landing Preparations For The New Xe Kernel Driver | Intel | 2023-01-18 |
| Intel Posts Linux Patches For Linear Address Space Separation (LASS) | Intel | 2023-01-14 |
| Linux 6.1 Graphics Driver Work Includes Intel Arc Improvements, New AMD GPU IP Blocks | Linux Kernel | 2022-10-05 |
| Experimental Patches Adapt Linux For A Unikernel Design | Linux Kernel | 2022-10-04 |
| Renewed Talk Of User-Space Consoles, Accelerators In The DRM Subsystem | Linux Kernel | 2022-09-16 |
| Open-Source VIA DRM/KMS Driver "OpenChrome" Not Ready For Merging Into Linux 5.20 | Linux Kernel | 2022-07-31 |
| Linux VKMS Driver Patches Making It Easier To Build Your Own Virtual Graphics Devices | X.Org | 2022-07-25 |
| Open-Source VIA Graphics Driver Hopes To Be Mainlined For Linux 5.20 | Linux Kernel | 2022-06-25 |
| Virtual m68k Machine Proves Capable, Xtensa & C-SKY Archs See Updates Too | Hardware | 2022-05-23 |
| NVIDIA Publishes Signed Ampere Firmware To Finally Allow Accelerated Open-Source Support | NVIDIA | 2022-04-11 |
| More DRM Display/Graphics Driver Changes Readied For Linux 5.18 | Linux Kernel | 2022-02-24 |
| OpenChrome DRM Driver For Open-Source VIA Continues To See Some Activity In 2022 | Linux Kernel | 2022-02-22 |
| Radeon ROCm 5.0 Released With Some RDNA2 GPU Support | Radeon | 2022-02-10 |
| Wayland's Weston 10.0 Compositor Released With DMA-BUF Feedback, Libseat Support | Wayland | 2022-02-01 |
| GNOME 42 Lands DRM Privacy Screen Support | GNOME | 2022-01-25 |
| Linux 5.17 Patch Can Help With Systemd-Less System Security, May Break Some Old Drivers | Linux Security | 2022-01-04 |
| Radeon ROCm 4.5.2 Adds Kernel Driver Installer Support, Various Fixes | Radeon | 2021-12-13 |
| Nouveau Lights Up The NVIDIA RTX 3060 GPU Open-Source Support | Nouveau | 2021-11-18 |
| AMD Leveraging VKMS Driver To Improve Its Virtual Display Support | Radeon | 2021-07-13 |
| Microsoft's Hyper-V DRM Display Driver Will Land For Linux 5.14 | Microsoft | 2021-06-09 |
| Intel Working On TTM Integration For Discrete vRAM Management | Intel | 2021-05-18 |
| Linux 5.14 To Bring SimpleDRM Driver, VC4 HDR, Marks More AGP Code As Legacy | Linux Kernel | 2021-05-13 |
| Microsoft Prepping Linux For Running As 64-bit ARM Hyper-V Guest | Microsoft | 2021-05-03 |
| The 11 Most Interesting Features For Linux 5.11 - Lots For AMD + Intel This Cycle | Linux Kernel | 2021-02-12 |
| Nouveau With Linux 5.12 Has ~5k L.O.C. Change In Preparing For Ampere | Nouveau | 2021-02-12 |
| Open-Source NVIDIA Changes Sent In For Linux 5.12 | Nouveau | 2021-01-29 |
| Linux 5.11-rc4 Released With NVIDIA RTX 30 Mode-Setting, Haswell GT1 Graphics Restored | Linux Kernel | 2021-01-17 |
| Linus Torvalds Decides To Land NVIDIA RTX 30 "Ampere" Support In Linux 5.11 | Linux Kernel | 2021-01-15 |
| Open-Source "Nouveau" Driver Now Supports NVIDIA Ampere - But Without 3D Acceleration | Nouveau | 2021-01-14 |
| Raspberry Pi "VC4" DRM Driver Sees 10/12 BPC Color Depth With Linux 5.12 | Raspberry Pi | 2021-01-06 |
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 Series Linux Driver/Support Expectations | NVIDIA | 2020-09-15 |
| Intel Lands Adaptive-Sync/VRR Into Modesetting X.Org Driver | Intel | 2020-09-08 |
| Linux 5.10 To Bring Support For Matrox G200 Desktop Graphics Cards | Hardware | 2020-08-26 |
| Ubuntu Begins Offering A Rolling Release Kernel For The Amazon Cloud | Ubuntu | 2020-04-17 |
| GNOME 3.36 Beta 2 Released With Initial Setup Parental Controls, Lock-Screen USB Disable | GNOME | 2020-02-18 |
| Red Hat Recommends Disabling The Intel Linux Graphics Driver Over Hardware Flaw | Red Hat | 2020-01-16 |
| From Botched Releases To Exciting New Features, Fedora Saw A Lot Of Changes During The 2010s | Fedora | 2019-12-24 |
| The Biggest Open-Source / Linux Radeon News Of The 2010s | Radeon | 2019-12-18 |
| Before Ending 2019, Vintage SiS X.Org Driver Sees A New Release | X.Org | 2019-12-04 |
| The Open-Source NVIDIA Driver Will End Out 2019 In Poor Shape Still For Newer GPUs | Nouveau | 2019-11-24 |
| Virtual KMS Driver To Work On Virtual Refresh Rate Support (FreeSync) | X.Org | 2019-11-10 |
| OpenChrome Still Aspiring For Open-Source VIA Graphics, But Not Going Mainline This Year | X.Org | 2019-10-23 |
| Google Does A Good Job Sticking Close To Upstream For Their Linux Kernels On Chromebooks | Google | 2019-08-27 |
| VKMS Getting PRIME Import Support For Helping To Test Linux's PRIME Functionality | X.Org | 2019-08-26 |
| Valve's ACO Compiler, Zink, FreeSync & Other Topics To Be Talked About At XDC 2019 | X.Org | 2019-08-06 |
| GNOME's Mutter Begins Landing Transactional KMS Support | GNOME | 2019-06-20 |
| Nouveau Gets Initial Support For NVIDIA TU117 (GeForce GTX 1650) | Nouveau | 2019-05-10 |
| Open-Source NVIDIA "Nouveau" Driver Sees Few Changes For Linux 5.2 | Nouveau | 2019-05-01 |
| Stadia, Web Browsers, GNOME 3.32 & Jetson Nano Dominated Linux Interest In March | Phoronix | 2019-04-01 |
| A DRM-Based Linux Oops Viewer Is Being Proposed Again - Similar To Blue Screen of Death | Linux Kernel | 2019-03-10 |
| GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Launch Today - Supported By The NVIDIA Linux Driver, No Nouveau Yet | NVIDIA | 2019-02-22 |
| The Most Interesting Highlights To The Linux 5.0 Kernel | Linux Kernel | 2019-02-22 |
| Open-Source NVIDIA "Nouveau" DRM Changes Begin Queuing Ahead Of Linux 5.1 | Nouveau | 2019-02-13 |
| IGT Is Helping Keep Intel's Display Driver & Other DRM/KMS Drivers In Good Shape | Intel | 2019-02-08 |
| Intel's Linux 5.1 Graphics Driver Will Have Fastboot By Default, More Icelake Bits | Intel | 2019-02-02 |
| Mesa To See Better Infrastructure For Supporting Render-Only GPUs | Mesa | 2019-01-27 |
| Nouveau Open-Source Driver Will Now Work With NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti On Linux 5.0 | Nouveau | 2019-01-18 |
| Nouveau Lands Initial Open-Source NVIDIA Turing Support - But No GPU Acceleration | Nouveau | 2018-12-11 |
| A Final Batch Of DRM-Misc-Next Updates Before Linux 4.21 | Hardware | 2018-12-07 |
| A Radeon RX 590 Workaround For Linux But With Abysmal Performance | Radeon | 2018-11-29 |
| Google's Pixel 3 Is Using The MSM DRM Driver, More Android Phones Moving To DRM/KMS Code | Google | 2018-11-17 |
| Virtual KMS Is Working On Wayland Support Plus Other Additions | X.Org | 2018-10-02 |
| NVIDIA Publishes Signed Volta Firmware Images For Enabling Open-Source Driver Support | NVIDIA | 2018-10-01 |
| Nouveau Developers Begin Reverse-Engineering NVIDIA Turing Driver Support | NVIDIA | 2018-09-20 |
| VKMS Driver Getting Cursor Support In The Next Kernel Cycle | Linux Kernel | 2018-09-14 |
| Outreachy Had 41 Interns Complete Their Work This Summer | Free Software | 2018-09-02 |
| DRM-Misc Begins Preparing For The Linux 4.20~5.0 Kernel | Linux Kernel | 2018-08-31 |
| The DRM GPU Scheduler Got Beefed Up This Summer, More Improvements Possible | Linux Kernel | 2018-08-28 |
| XDC2018 Will Have Many Interesting Talks On Vulkan, AR/VR, Wayland & More | X.Org | 2018-08-12 |
| Armada DRM Driver Wires In Atomic Mode-Setting For Linux 4.19 | Linux Kernel | 2018-08-01 |
| Freedreno's MSM DRM Driver In Linux 4.19 Getting "DPU1" Support For SDM845+ Support | Linux Kernel | 2018-07-30 |
| The DRM Changes Coming With The Linux 4.19 Kernel | Linux Kernel | 2018-07-25 |
| The State Of The VKMS Driver, Preparations For vBlank & Page Flip Events | Linux Kernel | 2018-07-16 |
| Virtual Kernel Mode-Setting Driver Being Added To Linux 4.19 | Linux Kernel | 2018-07-12 |
| USB Type-C DisplayPort Alternate Mode Driver Coming To Linux 4.19 | Linux Kernel | 2018-07-10 |
| Open-Source NVIDIA Volta GV100 Support Queued For Linux 4.18 | Nouveau | 2018-05-18 |
| A Remote KMS Linux Backend Is Being Worked On That Could Work With VNC | X.Org | 2018-05-17 |
| Initial Open-Source Volta Support Lands In Nouveau For Linux 4.18 | Nouveau | 2018-05-08 |
| The Most Interesting Google GSoC 2018 Projects: QEMU Vulkan, Virtual KMS, Nautilus GTK4 | Google | 2018-04-24 |
| NVIDIA Publishes Reference Documentation For Volta's Display Hardware | NVIDIA | 2018-04-12 |
| OpenChrome KMS Can Now Do Runtime Resolution Changes, Hopes To Go Mainline In 2018 | Hardware | 2018-03-11 |
| Raspberry Pi VC4 Working On Polishing KMS Support, Continued VC5 Progress | Raspberry Pi | 2018-02-13 |
| NVIDIA Sends Out Signed Firmware Images For GP108 Pascal GPUs | NVIDIA | 2017-12-21 |
| VIA Graphics & Other Vintage GPUs Still Interest At Least One Developer In 2017 | Hardware | 2017-09-22 |
| XDC2017 To Feature Update On New Memory Allocation API, HDR, GPGPU, GLVND | X.Org | 2017-08-21 |
| OpenIndiana Hipster 2017.04 Adds USB 3.0 Support | Operating Systems | 2017-05-03 |
| Pascal Is Now Supported By The Nouveau X.Org Driver | Nouveau | 2017-03-30 |
| Initial Open-Source Accelerated Support Comes To Nouveau For GTX 1050/1060/1070/1080 | Nouveau | 2017-03-01 |
| MuQSS Updates For The Linux 4.10 Kernel | Linux Kernel | 2017-02-20 |
| The End Of An Era: A Look Back At The Most Popular Solaris Milestones & News | Oracle | 2017-01-19 |
| Eight Features You Will Not Find In The Mainline Linux 4.8 Kernel | Linux Kernel | 2016-08-11 |
| DRM Panic Handling Is Back To Being Talked About | Linux Kernel | 2016-08-10 |
| The Big DRM Graphics Pull For Linux 4.8: AMDGPU OverDrive, Nouveau Pascal, ARM Mali Driver | Linux Kernel | 2016-08-02 |
