PowerPC Articles & Reviews |
| Nouveau Companion 37 | Display Drivers | 2008-03-20 |
| Nouveau Companion 35 | Display Drivers | 2008-02-14 |
| Nouveau Companion 33 | Display Drivers | 2008-01-11 |
| Realm Systems BlackDog | Computers | 2006-01-15 |
PowerPC Linux & Open-Source News |
| FreeBSD 15.1 Released With Updated WiFi Drivers, Better C23 Support & Other Improvements | BSD | 2026-06-15 |
| FreeBSD 15.1 Delayed To Mid-June Due To Critical x86 Bug Fixes | BSD | 2026-06-06 |
| FreeBSD 15.1 Beta 3 Updates OpenZFS, Ensures Cloud Images Up-To-Date On First Boot | BSD | 2026-05-17 |
| Linux 7.1-rc3 Released With Many Networking Changes | Linux Kernel | 2026-05-10 |
| With Linux 7.1 The Mainline Kernel Now Supports Real-Time "RT" On ARM | Arm | 2026-04-27 |
| OpenSSL 4.0 Released With Encrypted Client Hello, RFC 8998 Support | Free Software | 2026-04-14 |
| Rust Coreutils 0.7 Released With Many Performance Optimizations | Programming | 2026-03-09 |
| OpenZFS 2.4.1 Released With Linux 6.19 Compatibility, Many Fixes | Linux Storage | 2026-02-25 |
| GNU Binutils 2.46 Released With AMD Zen 6 Support, SFrame Version 3 | GNU | 2026-02-09 |
| GRUB 2.14 Bootloader Released With EROFS Support, Shim Loader Protocol | GNU | 2026-01-14 |
| Linux 7.0 To Focus Just On Full & Lazy Preemption Models For Up-To-Date CPU Archs | Linux Kernel | 2026-01-14 |
| Linux 6.19-rc3 Released With A Holiday's Week Of Fixes | Linux Kernel | 2025-12-28 |
| Linux 6.18-rc5 To Cut Down Performance Regression Observed On IBM POWER CPUs | Linux Kernel | 2025-11-08 |
| FreeBSD 15.0 Alpha 4 Will Now Install pkg From Release Media | BSD | 2025-09-27 |
| IBM Already Working On What Is Likely Power12 Support For The GCC Compiler | GNU | 2025-06-23 |
| POWER CPUs Ready With Dynamic Preemption For Linux 6.16 | Linux Kernel | 2025-05-26 |
| FreeBSD 14.3 Beta 3 Brings KDE Plasma 6 Packages To The DVD ISOs | BSD | 2025-05-17 |
| The Linux Kernel's SHA-256 Code Being Improved Upon For Easier & Performant Use | Linux Kernel | 2025-04-27 |
| HFS/HFS+ File-System Driver Support For Linux May End Up Being Maintained | Linux Storage | 2025-04-19 |
| IBM z17 Open-Source Compiler Support Now Being Officially Recognized | LLVM | 2025-04-11 |
| IBM Says Goodbye To Cell Blade Servers With Linux 6.15 | Hardware | 2025-03-26 |
| Xen 4.20 Hypervisor Released With AMD Zen 5 Support, More Performance Optimizations | Virtualization | 2025-03-05 |
| Linux Gaining SMP Support For The OpenPOWER Microwatt | Linux Kernel | 2025-03-03 |
| Linux 6.14 EDAC Preps For Intel Clearwater Forest, Adds LoongArch Driver For ECC Memory | Hardware | 2025-01-19 |
| Mold 2.36 Linker Brings More Optimizations & Compatibility Improvements | Programming | 2025-01-09 |
| Linux's Preempt Lazy Support Coming To POWER CPUs | Linux Kernel | 2024-12-27 |
| Fedora Atomic Desktops For POWER PPC64LE To End Due To Finding No Users | Fedora | 2024-12-17 |
| Linux Developers Consider Ending 32-bit KVM Host Virtualization Support` | Virtualization | 2024-12-12 |
| AlmaLinux 10 Beta Released For Testing | Operating Systems | 2024-12-11 |
| Linux 6.13 KVM Eliminates An "Awful Idea", Many x86_64 Improvements | Virtualization | 2024-11-25 |
| IBM Power11 CPUs Launching In 2025 - Linux 6.13 Preps KVM Nested Guests For Power11 | Virtualization | 2024-11-23 |
| Faster CRC32C & AEGIS-128 Crypto Performance On Linux 6.13 With Intel/AMD CPUs | Linux Kernel | 2024-11-20 |
| Linux 6.13 Adding "slab_strict_numa" SLAB Option For Helping ARM Performance | Linux Kernel | 2024-11-17 |
| GNU C Library Merges Support for getrandom vDSO | GNU | 2024-11-13 |
| vDSO getrandom() Ported To Five More CPU Architectures With Linux 6.12 | Linux Kernel | 2024-09-23 |
| Linus Torvalds Adds User-Access Fast Validation Via Address Masking To Linux 6.12 | Linux Kernel | 2024-09-22 |
| Linux 6.12 EDAC Prepares For Address Translation On Future AMD Platforms | AMD | 2024-09-16 |
| Linux Very Close To Enabling Real-Time "PREEMPT_RT" Support | Linux Kernel | 2024-09-06 |
| getrandom() vDSO Coming To More Architectures With Linux 6.12 | Linux Kernel | 2024-09-05 |
| Building Mesa On POWER Now Presents A Default Set Of OpenGL & Vulkan Drivers | Mesa | 2024-06-21 |
| PowerPC 40x Processor Support To Be Dropped From The Linux Kernel | Hardware | 2024-05-06 |
| IBM Posts GCC Patches For -mcpu=power11 Support | GNU | 2024-03-20 |
| Initial IBM Power11 Enablement Begins With Linux 6.9 | Hardware | 2024-03-16 |
| IBM Begins Work On Power11 Enablement For Upcoming Linux 6.9 | Linux Kernel | 2024-02-21 |
| FreeBSD Continues Push Toward Deprecating 32-bit Platforms | BSD | 2024-02-13 |
| Cling 1.0 Released For Interactive C++ Interpreter | Programming | 2023-12-12 |
| Xen 4.18 Hypervisor Released With Support For New AMD EPYC & Intel Xeon CPU Features | Virtualization | 2023-11-22 |
| Linux RISC-V Preparing For Real-Time Kernel Support (PREEMPT_RT) | RISC-V | 2023-10-24 |
| IBM Begins Posting "PowerPC Future" Compiler Patches For What Is Likely Going To Be POWER11 | GNU | 2023-10-19 |
| Mold 2.3 Linker Allows Removing Superfluous ENDBR64 Instructions | Programming | 2023-10-18 |
| Meson 1.2 Build System Released | Free Software | 2023-07-17 |
| Linux 6.5-rc2 Released With Some Early AMD Family 26 Bits, Fixing Up Some KCFI Assembly | Linux Kernel | 2023-07-16 |
| IBM POWER10 Receives DEXCR Support In Linux 6.5, Big Endian Improvements | Linux Kernel | 2023-07-02 |
| FLAC 1.4.3 Released With More Optimizations, Drops PowerPC-Specific Code | Free Software | 2023-06-23 |
| Linux 6.5 Preps For IBM POWER's "DEXCR" | Linux Kernel | 2023-06-20 |
| Linux 6.3-rc5 Released - Looking To Be In Good Shape | Linux Kernel | 2023-04-02 |
| openSUSE Leap 15.5 Beta Released For Testing | SUSE | 2023-02-21 |
| IBM Looks To Squeeze Support For Future Power "Dense Math" CPUs Into GCC 13 | Hardware | 2023-01-21 |
| GNOME's Mutter Adds Support For Toggling Byte-Swapped XWayland Clients | X.Org | 2023-01-17 |
| X.Org Server No Longer Allowing Byte-Swapped Clients By Default | X.Org | 2023-01-06 |
| Mold 1.9 Released With Support For More CPU Architectures | Programming | 2023-01-06 |
| Intel Releases oneDNN 3.0 In Advance Of Sapphire Rapids | Intel | 2022-12-20 |
| Linux 6.2 Landing Scalability Improvement For Large IBM Power Systems | Linux Kernel | 2022-12-19 |
| IBM Sends Out Initial Patches For "Dense Math" Support With Future Power CPUs | Programming | 2022-11-15 |
| Open Firmware DRM Driver "OFDRM" Queuing For Linux 6.2 | Hardware | 2022-10-20 |
| Mold 1.6 High Speed Linker Adds PPC64 and s390x, Smaller Output Files | Programming | 2022-10-19 |
| Linux 6.1 POWERs Up With KFENCE, Syscall Wrappers, Execute-Only Memory | Linux Kernel | 2022-10-16 |
| High-Speed Mold 1.5 Linker Released With PPC64LE, SPARC64 & RISC-V BE Targets | Programming | 2022-09-27 |
| Linux 6.0-rc4 Released With Various Driver Fixes | Linux Kernel | 2022-09-04 |
| Linux 5.19 Released - Linus Torvalds Released It From An Apple Silicon MacBook | Linux Kernel | 2022-07-31 |
| AMD Has A Bit More RDNA3 Graphics Driver Code Ready For Linux 5.20 | Radeon | 2022-07-27 |
| GNU C Library Finally Adds arc4random Functions For Linux | GNU | 2022-07-23 |
| Patches Updated For Booting Linux On The Nintendo Wii U | Linux Kernel | 2022-06-22 |
| RHEL-Based AlmaLinux Announces "ALBS" Access For Its Public Build System | Operating Systems | 2022-06-20 |
| RT Patches Updated For Linux 5.19-rc1 - Real-Time Inches Closer To The Finish Line | Linux Kernel | 2022-06-07 |
| Linux 5.18-rc6 Released - Linux 5.18 Is Looking "Quite Well-Behaved" | Linux Kernel | 2022-05-08 |
| QEMU 7.0 Released With Intel AMX Support, Many RISC-V Additions | Virtualization | 2022-04-20 |
| FreeBSD 13.1-RC1 Pulls In OpenZFS 2.1, WiFi Updates | BSD | 2022-04-01 |
| Picolibc 1.7.5 Released For Embedded Systems With Limited RAM | Programming | 2022-03-16 |
| QEMU 7.0 Is Coming With Intel AMX Support, Many RISC-V Improvements | Virtualization | 2022-03-16 |
| Go 1.18 Released With Generics, Fully Integrated Fuzzing, ~20% Performance Improvements | Programming | 2022-03-15 |
| FreeBSD 13.1-BETA Headlined By Changes To POWER & RISC-V Architectures | BSD | 2022-03-11 |
| AmigaOS-Like MorphOS 3.16 Released With Better Performance | Operating Systems | 2022-03-10 |
| New Patches Posted For Booting Linux On The Nintendo Wii U | Linux Kernel | 2022-03-02 |
| Nintendo Wii U Linux Support Discussed - But Lacks GPU, Broken Multi-Core, USB Issue | Linux Gaming | 2022-02-08 |
| Cemu Emulator Plans For 2022 With Going Open-Source, Aiming For Linux Support | Linux Gaming | 2022-01-15 |
| Gentoo Linux Packages Up AMD ROCm, Makes Progress On RISC-V, LTO+PGO Python | Operating Systems | 2022-01-08 |
| Ubuntu 22.04 LTS To Shift Its PPC64EL Baseline To POWER9 CPUs, Dropping POWER8 | Ubuntu | 2021-12-11 |
| LLVM Now Has "Official" Support For Targeting NEC's Vector Engine (VE) | LLVM | 2021-12-07 |
| Picolibc 1.7.4 Brings Improved Meson Support, Restructured Math Code | Programming | 2021-11-20 |
| Wine 6.22 Released With Mono 7.0, Joystick Improvements | WINE | 2021-11-19 |
| Nintendo Wii U Gamepad Linux Driver Support Still Pursuing Mainline | Hardware | 2021-10-20 |
| GNU Linux-libre Was Mistakenly Including Non-Free Code, So Releases Now Re-Spun + 5.14 | GNU | 2021-08-31 |
| QEMU 6.1 Released With RISC-V Improvements, AMD Emulation Fixes | Virtualization | 2021-08-24 |
| Linux 5.15 To Allow Reading From The Nintendo OTP Memory Area | Hardware | 2021-08-13 |
| QEMU 6.1 Is On The Way For The Open-Source Linux Virtualization Stack | Virtualization | 2021-07-22 |
| Latest Patches Sent Out For Adding Rust Support To The Linux Kernel | Programming | 2021-07-04 |
| Linux 5.14 To Support The OpenPOWER Microwatt Soft CPU Core | Linux Kernel | 2021-06-23 |
| GNU C Library Lands Year 2038 Handling For Legacy ABIs | GNU | 2021-06-16 |
| Linux 5.13-rc5 Is Fairly Average In Size But Not Calming Down Yet | Linux Kernel | 2021-06-06 |
| Wii U Gamepad Driver For Linux Remains In The Works | Linux Gaming | 2021-05-19 |
| PowerPC Pull Brings 32-Bit Improvements For Linux 5.13 - eBPF + KFENCE | Hardware | 2021-05-08 |
| FreeBSD 13.0-RC4 Released With POWER Fixes, Other Bugs Addressed | BSD | 2021-03-29 |
| Linux Kernel's Preliminary Rust Code Seeing 64-bit POWER Support | Linux Kernel | 2021-03-23 |
| Linux 5.12-rc3 Kernel Released | Linux Kernel | 2021-03-14 |
| FreeBSD 13.0-BETA1 Released With WireGuard, Updated ZFS, NUMA Optimizations | BSD | 2021-02-06 |
| Linux Patches Updated For Light-Based Networking With pureLiFi Driver | Linux Networking | 2021-01-16 |
| Linux Kernel Developers Discuss Dropping A Bunch Of Old CPUs | Linux Kernel | 2021-01-10 |
| LLVM Adds Initial Support For PowerPC LE | LLVM | 2021-01-03 |
| AMD Wowed Linux Users In 2020 With Their Fantastic Zen 3 CPUs, Timely New Open-Source GPU Support | AMD | 2020-12-29 |
| POCL 1.6 Released For Portable OpenCL Atop CPUs, Other Accelerators | Standards | 2020-12-17 |
| PowerPC 40x Support Slated For Removal From The Linux Kernel | Hardware | 2020-12-10 |
| Linux 5.10-rc3 Released As A "Normal" RC3 Version | Linux Kernel | 2020-11-08 |
| AMD, Kernel Advancements & Tiger Lake Captivated Linux Readers In October | Phoronix | 2020-11-01 |
| Hangover Alpha 2 Lets Windows x86/x64 Programs Run On ARM64, POWER 64-bit | WINE | 2020-10-31 |
| Intel's oneDNN Continues Improving Support For Non-Intel Hardware | Intel | 2020-10-29 |
| OpenBSD Marks 25th Anniversary By Releasing OpenBSD 6.8 With POWER 64-Bit Support | BSD | 2020-10-18 |
| PowerPC 601 Support Retired In Linux 5.10 While Continuing To Bring Up POWER10 | Hardware | 2020-10-17 |
| There Are Many Changes To Look Forward To With The Linux 5.10 Kernel | Linux Kernel | 2020-10-11 |
| PowerPC 601 Support Being Retired In Linux 5.10 - The First 32-bit PowerPC CPU | Hardware | 2020-10-09 |
| POWER Coregroup Support Coming With Linux 5.10 | Hardware | 2020-09-21 |
| FreeBSD 12.2 BETA2 Brings TRIM For Bhyve's VirtIO-BLK, Intel ICE Added | BSD | 2020-09-19 |
| Linux 5.9-rc3 Is A "Pretty Calm" Release | Linux Kernel | 2020-08-30 |
| Wine Patches Revived For 64-bit POWER Support, Hangover To Run Windows Apps On POWER | WINE | 2020-08-17 |
| QEMU 5.1 Release Brings Many Improvements To This Open-Source Virtualization Component | Virtualization | 2020-08-12 |
| Linux 5.9 Bringing IBM POWER "System Call Vectored" Support | Linux Kernel | 2020-07-24 |
| QEMU 5.1 Bringing Many CPU Improvements From Loongson To RISC-V To s390 | Virtualization | 2020-07-16 |
| Wine 5.11 Released With Updated Mono, Initial Work On NetIO Kernel Driver | WINE | 2020-06-19 |
| Linux 5.8 To See Support For POWER10's Prefixed Instructions | Hardware | 2020-05-22 |
| OpenBSD 6.7 Released With FFS2 Improvements, Better Raspberry Pi + PineBook Pro Support | BSD | 2020-05-19 |
| OpenBSD Seeing Initial Work Land On Enabling 64-bit POWER | BSD | 2020-05-18 |
| Debian Dropping A Number Of Old Linux Drivers Is Angering Vintage Hardware Users | Debian | 2020-04-21 |
| FreeBSD Had A Very Busy End Of Year 2019 With Numerous Advancements | BSD | 2020-01-27 |
| AMD Begins Providing PowerPC Builds Of Their "AOMP" GPU Compiler | Radeon | 2020-01-14 |
| Raptor Computing Is Working On More AMD Radeon Driver Improvements For POWER | Radeon | 2019-12-08 |
| Linux 5.5 KVM Adds POWER Support For Secure Guests/VMs | Virtualization | 2019-12-07 |
| BeOS-Inspired Haiku Continues Working On 64-bit ARM, Other Hardware Improvements | Operating Systems | 2019-12-05 |
| Linux 5.5 Begins Plumbing Secure Boot Infrastructure For POWER9 | Hardware | 2019-12-04 |
| AMDGPU Fixes For Linux 5.5 Include AMDKFD For PowerPC, Fix For Old ATI R100/R200 GPUs | Radeon | 2019-12-03 |
| KVM Virtualization Updates For Linux 5.5 Are Particularly Busy On The AMD/Intel Side | Virtualization | 2019-11-30 |
| Whoops: The Linux Kernel's Spectre RSB Mitigation For PowerPC Missed Covering Some CPUs | Linux Security | 2019-11-28 |
| AMDKFD/ROCm GPU Compute Can Work On POWER Systems Like Raptor's Talos II | Radeon | 2019-11-24 |
| Mesa 19.2.6 Released Due To POWER Fallout | Mesa | 2019-11-22 |
| "VIRTME" Revised For Virtualized Linux Kernel Testing | Virtualization | 2019-10-11 |
| Linux 5.4 Prepares IBM POWER For The Ultravisor / Secure Virtual Machines | Hardware | 2019-09-20 |
| GCC 10 Compiler Drops IBM Cell Broadband Engine SPU Support | GNU | 2019-09-04 |
| FreeBSD 13 Is Preparing To Finally Retire GCC 4.2 | BSD | 2019-08-14 |
| PyPy JIT Now Running Well On 64-Bit ARM For Faster Performance | Arm | 2019-07-29 |
| FreeBSD 11.3 Beta 2 Brings Virtualization Updates, Exposes MD_CLEAR MDS Bit To Guests | BSD | 2019-06-01 |
| QEMU 4.0 Released With CPU Support Improvements, Faster Crypto, Monitor EDID | Virtualization | 2019-04-23 |
