06/28

⇒ Linux 7.3 To Introduce DRM "Color Format" Property With AMD GPU Driver Support
> While the Linux 7.2 kernel merge window is only ending later today to cap off the feature work on this next version of the Linux kernel, already for the Linux 7.3 kernel cycle later in the year there is one notable feature on the way: the DRM color format property is being introduced and being first supported by the AMDGPU kernel graphics driver.

• https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-DRM-Color-Format

07/01

⇒ Linux 7.3 To Overcome "Significant Bottleneck" For Small I/O With PCIe Gen5 NVMe SSDs
> While the Linux 7.2 feature merge window ended just days ago and the better part of two months now before v7.2 will be released as stable, there are already features beginning to accumulate that will target the Linux 7.3 cycle. The most exciting change I've seen to kick off that dance ahead of Linux 7.3 is addressing a "significant" bottleneck affecting small direct I/O performance with speedy storage such as PCIe Gen5 NVMe SSDs.

• https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-Faster-Small-Direct

07/03

⇒ Intel Prepares More Nova Lake Graphics/Display Enablement For Linux 7.3
> On Thursday Intel sent out their first batch of Intel kernel graphics driver changes of new feature material targeting the Linux 7.3 kernel. This first batch of drm-intel-next for v7.3 continues to focus heavily on lining up Nova Lake's Xe3P integrated graphics/display support.

• https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-DRM-First-For-Linux-7.3

07/04

⇒ Linux 7.3 Adding More Graphics PCI IDs For Intel Nova Lake S
> In addition to this week's drm-intel-next pull request beginning to lay out the Intel kernel graphics driver changes for Linux 7.3, the first drm-xe-next pull request was sent out on Friday. Intel Nova Lake enablement remains the hot area for the Intel GPU driver code.

• https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-More-Nova-Lake-S-IDs

26/07/06

⇒ Uniwill Laptop Driver Preparing A Number Of Features For Linux 7.3
> The Unwill laptop driver on Linux for supporting various device-specific features by that major OEM/ODM will be seeing several new features with the Linux 7.3 cycle later this year. One of the most notable users of the Unwill driver is Bavarian Linux PC vendor TUXEDO Computers.

• https://www.phoronix.com/news/Uniwill-Improvements-Linux-7.3

⇒ Pioneer DJM-S11 Professional DJ Mixer To Be Supported By Linux 7.3
> The Pioneer DJM-S11 is a professional scratch style 2-channel DJ mixer that retails for $2,269 USD. But if currently connecting this expensive piece of kit to Linux, it does nothing and is unusable. With 87 new lines of code, it will begin to work with the Linux 7.3 kernel later this year.

• https://www.phoronix.com/news/Pioneer-DJ-DJM-S11-Linux

⇒ Linux 7.3 Expected To "Flatten The Pick" For Better Scheduling While Gaming & More
> Going back to early May there were patches for improving the Linux scheduler to help with gaming performance on old "potato" hardware by providing better cgroup scheduling. Those patches, referred to as the "flatten the pick" patch series, are now slated for introduction in the Linux 7.3 kernel.

• https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-Flattens-The-Pick

26/07/08

⇒ Linux 7.3 To Make It Easier To Disable Syscall User Dispatch
> Introduced to the Linux kernel nearly six years ago was the Syscall User Dispatch feature to help with Linux gaming. Specifically, Syscall User Dispatch was developed to help Windows games run on Linux more efficiently. While it was upstreamed in Linux 5.11 for more efficiently intercepting system calls from Windows software under Wine, now in the name of security there are patches working their way to the mainline kernel to more easily disable it.

• https://www.phoronix.com/news/Toggle-Syscall-User-Dispatch

26/07/10

⇒ Linux 7.3 Enabling Second Graphics Pipe For Modern AMD APUs
> AMD on Thursday sent out another round of AMDGPU kernel graphics driver and AMDKFD kernel compute driver updates to DRM-Next of new feature material ahead of the Linux 7.3 merge window.

• https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-Second-Pipe-GFX11-APU

26/07/12

⇒ Reworked System Call Entry Handling Slated For Linux 7.3
> Stemming from looking at a proposed Linux kernel patch to alter the Linux kernel's system call number handling, veteran Linux kernel developer Thomas Gleixner went down a rabbit hole of the kernel's system call entry handling to make a number of clean-ups and improvements to the code. That rework to the system call entry handling is now expected to land for the Linux 7.3 kernel cycle.

• https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rework-Sysclal-Entry-Linux-7.3