MX8 Linux & Open-Source News |
| New ARM SoCs & Various Smartphones/Devices Now Supported By Linux 6.9 | Hardware | 2024-03-13 |
| Linux 6.8 Brings More Sound Hardware Support For Intel & AMD, Including The Steam Deck | Linux Kernel | 2024-01-15 |
| Many Features Ahead With Linux 6.6: EEVDF Scheduler, New AMD CPU Features, NVK uAPI | Linux Kernel | 2023-08-27 |
| Linux 6.6 Etnaviv Driver Working On More NXP i.MX8MP Hardware | Linux Kernel | 2023-08-17 |
| Linux Developers Still Working To Retire Intel Itanium/IA-64 Support | Intel | 2023-05-12 |
| Linux 6.3 Supports The Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 & Other New High-End Arm SoCs | Arm | 2023-02-18 |
| Linux 6.1 Media Gets New Drivers, Two Existing Drivers Promoted Out Of Staging | Multimedia | 2022-10-07 |
| More Arm SoCs, Smartphones & NVIDIA Control Backbone Bus Enabled With Linux 6.1 | Arm | 2022-10-06 |
| Linux 6.1 Brings New Sound Drivers For AMD & Apple | Multimedia | 2022-10-06 |
| ASUS & Canonical Partner On The IoT / Edge Computing Front | Ubuntu | 2022-09-16 |
| Linux 5.20 To Support The Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen3, ThinkPad X13s Arm Laptop | Linux Kernel | 2022-07-30 |
| Linux's Hantro VPU Media Driver Looks To Be Promoted Out Of Staging | Multimedia | 2022-07-20 |
| Linux 5.19 Allows Using TRIM To Zero-Out Sectors On Supported eMMC | Linux Storage | 2022-05-30 |
| Linux 5.19 ARM Excites With Apple M1 NVMe, 12 Year Old Multi-Platform Achievement | Arm | 2022-05-27 |
| Intel's Rewritten Audio Driver "AVS" Begins Landing In Linux 5.19 | Intel | 2022-05-27 |
| Etnaviv Open-Source Driver Adds GC7000 r6204 GPU Support For The NXP i.MX 8M Plus | Mesa | 2022-04-28 |
| Sound Open Firmware 2.1 Released With Better Performance, More Zephyr RTOS Usage | Intel | 2022-04-01 |
| NXP Continues Work On Linux Driver Bring-Up Of "Amphion" Video Encoder/Decoder | Multimedia | 2022-01-25 |
| PCI Changes For Linux 5.17 Bring Intel Raptor Lake IDs, Apple PCIe Clock Gating | Hardware | 2022-01-15 |
| Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 Sees Timely Support With The Mainline Linux 5.17 Kernel | Arm | 2022-01-12 |
| Sound Open Firmware For AMD Audio Hardware Arrives, Initially For Renoir ACP | AMD | 2021-11-17 |
| Linux 5.16 Sound Ready To Play On AMD VanGogh + Yellow Carp, Continues USB Low-Latency | Hardware | 2021-11-03 |
| Genode OS Framework 21.08 Streamlining Its Porting Of Linux Driver Code | Operating Systems | 2021-09-02 |
| Linux 5.14 Picks Up Support For New Sound Hardware, Including Alder Lake M | Multimedia | 2021-07-04 |
| Hantro VPU Driver With Linux 5.14 Adds G2 Decoder Support With HEVC | Multimedia | 2021-06-28 |
| Genode OS 21.05 Released With Webcam Support, Encrypted File Vault | Operating Systems | 2021-05-31 |
| Linux 5.13 Tacks On A JPEG Encoder/Decoder Driver For The i.MX8 | Linux Kernel | 2021-05-01 |
| Initial Support For The Apple M1 Lands In Linux 5.13 | Apple | 2021-04-26 |
| Linux 5.13 To Support HDMI CEC With The Raspberry Pi 4 | Raspberry Pi | 2021-03-04 |
| Intel eASIC N5X, Snapdragon 888 Support Land In Linux 5.12 | Hardware | 2021-02-21 |
| Genode OS Framework 20.11 Brings Dynamic CPU Load Balancing, 64-bit ARM Sculpt OS | Operating Systems | 2020-11-28 |
| Open-Source Vivante Driver In Some Cases Outperforming Proprietary Driver | Mesa | 2020-09-21 |
| Raspberry Pi 4 VC4 Support Coming With Linux 5.10 | Raspberry Pi | 2020-09-10 |
| Genode OS 20.08 Has Chromium Web Engine Running, Low-Level GUI Work | Operating Systems | 2020-08-31 |
| Linux 5.8 Sound Changes Bring New AMD Renoir ACP Driver, Intel Elkhart Lake Support | Hardware | 2020-06-05 |
| Linux 5.7 Adds Support For The Qualcomm Snapdragon 865, Mainline PinePhone Support | Arm | 2020-04-04 |
| Linux 5.6 Kernel Adding Support For 1st Gen Amazon Echo, Many Other Arm Additions | Hardware | 2020-02-08 |
| Linux 5.6 Crypto Code Brings The New AMD TEE Driver | Linux Security | 2020-01-28 |
| Power Management + ACPI Updates Submitted For The Linux 5.6 Kernel | Hardware | 2020-01-28 |
| Genode OS Draws Up 2020 Plans Of USB Audio, A Kernel Written In Ada | Operating Systems | 2020-01-21 |
| Purism Announces Librem Server While Also Announcing Price Hikes On The Librem 5 | Hardware | 2019-12-17 |
| Purism Announces Librem 5 "USA" Model For $1999 USD | Hardware | 2019-12-05 |
| Purism Shows Off The Librem 5 Linux Smartphone In Action | Hardware | 2019-09-26 |
| Purism Starts Shipping The First Librem 5 Smartphones | Hardware | 2019-09-24 |
| Linux 5.4 Power Management Updates Sent In But Without AMD CPPC Changes | Hardware | 2019-09-18 |
| Linux 5.4 Continues Sound Open Firmware, Improvements For AMD/NVIDIA HDMI Audio | Hardware | 2019-09-17 |
| Linux 5.4 Adds Qualcomm Snapdragon 855, Supports Some Newer ARM Laptops | Arm | 2019-09-17 |
| Linux 5.4 Pull Requests Begin With AMD EPYC Rome EDAC Support, 64-Bit ARM Updates | Linux Kernel | 2019-09-13 |
| Librem 5 Will Begin Shipping In The Weeks Ahead, But Varying Quality Over Months Ahead | Hardware | 2019-09-05 |
| Fairphone 3 Pre-Orders Begin For Ethical Smartphone With Better Specs Than The Librem 5 | Hardware | 2019-08-30 |
| Genode OS 19.08 Released With Better POSIX Compatibility, Qt 5.13 Support | Operating Systems | 2019-08-29 |
| Purism Finally Announces The Firmed Up Specifications For The Librem 5 Smartphone | Hardware | 2019-07-29 |
| Char/Misc Has A Bit Of Changes All Over For Linux 5.3 | Linux Kernel | 2019-07-15 |
| Raspberry Pi CPUFreq Driver & Other Power Management Work For Linux 5.3 | Hardware | 2019-07-10 |
| 64-Bit ARM Changes Already Sent In For The Linux 5.3 Kernel | Arm | 2019-07-08 |
| Purism Talks Up The Librem 5 Smartphone Boot Speed, Price Increase Coming | Hardware | 2019-06-05 |
| Intel Agilex Now Supported By Linux 5.2 Kernel; ARM Boards Like Jetson Nano Also Added | Hardware | 2019-05-17 |
| Librem 5 Developer Kit's Mainline Kernel Support Hits 12th Patch Revision | Hardware | 2019-05-16 |
| Don't Hold Your Breath On UBports' Ubuntu Touch For Purism's Librem 5 Smartphone | Ubuntu | 2019-05-07 |
| The Current State Of Librem 5's Linux Smartphone Functionality On Their Dev Kits | Free Software | 2019-04-17 |
| Raspberry Pi 3 Model A+ and Bitmain BM18xx Supported By Linux 5.1 | Arm | 2019-03-07 |
| Librem 5 Smartphone Specs Firmed Up, But Now Delayed To Q3 | Hardware | 2019-02-21 |
| The Current Hardware Specifications For Purism's Librem 5 Phone | Hardware | 2019-01-28 |
| GNU Binutils 2.32 Branched Ahead Of Release With New Features | GNU | 2019-01-19 |
| Purism Shares The Progress Made On Their Librem 5 Smartphone For The End Of 2018 | Hardware | 2019-01-09 |
| i.MX8 SoC Support Is Heading Into Linux 4.21 Along With Another ARM Platform | Arm | 2019-01-05 |
| The Necunos Mobile Linux Smartphone With KDE Option Preparing To Ship - Without Modem | Hardware | 2019-01-03 |
| The New ARM Hardware Support That's Now Part Of The Linux 4.21 Kernel | Arm | 2019-01-01 |
| Linux 4.21 Is Going To Be A Big Release To Jump-Start The New Year | Linux Kernel | 2018-12-22 |
| Purism's Librem 5 Developer Kits Finally Shipping, Linux Phone Price Going Up To $699 | Hardware | 2018-12-18 |
| Initial i.MX8 SoC Support & Development Board Possibly Ready For Linux 4.21 | Hardware | 2018-12-10 |
| Necunos Mobile: A New Open-Source Linux Phone With KDE Plasma Mobile | Hardware | 2018-11-29 |
| ARM Is Very Busy In The Next Kernel With A Lot For NVIDIA Tegra, Snapdragon 835 & More | Arm | 2018-10-30 |
| Purism Pushes Back The Librem 5 Linux Smartphone Release Date | Hardware | 2018-09-04 |
| Purism Developing "Chatty" For SMS Support On The Librem 5 | Operating Systems | 2018-08-29 |
| Linux 4.19 ARM Updates Bring Raspberry Pi Voltage Driver, Samsung Aires Phone Support | Arm | 2018-08-23 |
| Purism Shares Latest Librem 5 Phone Hardware Plans, Software Progress | Hardware | 2018-08-03 |
| NXP i.MX8 SoC Support Hasn't Yet Worked Its Way Into The Mainline Linux Kernel | Hardware | 2018-07-22 |
| Librem 5 Development Boards Won't Be Shipping Now Until At Least August | Hardware | 2018-07-16 |
| Purism's Librem 5 To Rely On Secondary Processor For Binary Blobs | Hardware | 2018-06-19 |
| Features That Didn't Make It For The Mainline Linux 4.18 Kernel | Linux Kernel | 2018-06-17 |
| Purism Reaffirms Plans To Bring Librem 5 Smartphone To Market In January | Hardware | 2018-06-06 |
| Etnaviv Gallium3D Now Working On NIR Support | Mesa | 2018-06-06 |
| Jailhouse 0.9 Hypervisor Released With NVIDIA TX2 Support | Virtualization | 2018-06-05 |
| Purism Is Proposing A Virtual Keyboard Protocol For Wayland | Wayland | 2018-05-18 |
| Purism Shows Off Latest GNOME Mobile Shell Mockups For The Librem 5 | GNOME | 2018-05-10 |
| UBPorts Ubuntu Touch To Be Supported By The Purism Librem 5 | Ubuntu | 2018-04-24 |
| Purism Hires GNOME Developer For Librem 5 UI/UX Designer | GNOME | 2018-04-16 |
| Purism Begins Librem 5 Developer Docs, Using "Phosh" Wayland Shell & GNOME Apps | Hardware | 2018-04-11 |
| Etnaviv Now Making Use Of AMDGPU DRM Scheduler, GC7000L Support Coming For Linux 4.18 | Linux Kernel | 2018-03-22 |
| Purism Gets Plasma Mobile Running On Their First Librem 5 Development Board | KDE | 2018-03-13 |
| Linux 4.17 Will Be Another Exciting Kernel Cycle | Linux Kernel | 2018-03-12 |
| Purism Begins Making Their Own Wayland Compositor For The Librem 5 Smartphone | Wayland | 2018-03-03 |
| Pengutronix Gets Open-Source 3D Working On MX8M/GC7000 Hardware | Mesa | 2018-02-23 |
| i.MX8 SoC Support Might Be Introduced In Linux 4.17 | Linux Kernel | 2018-02-04 |
| Purism Might Develop An X11-Free Wayland Compositor Aligned With GNOME | Wayland | 2018-02-02 |
| Purism Begins Work On Unified Themes For Convergent PureOS Devices | Operating Systems | 2018-01-24 |
| Etnaviv Working On Initial Bring-Up Of GC7000L/i.MX8M Graphics | Linux Kernel | 2018-01-22 |
| Purism Eyeing The i.MX8M For The Librem 5 Smartphone, Issues First Status Update | Hardware | 2018-01-16 |
| Etnaviv Driver Sends Out Patches For Vivante GC7000 Support | Mesa | 2017-10-31 |
| Purism Librem 5 Linux Smartphone Campaign Set To End At Around $2 Million | Hardware | 2017-10-22 |
| Etnaviv Gallium3D Is Almost To OpenGL 2.0 Compliance | Mesa | 2017-10-17 |
| Etnaviv Landing Performance Counters For Linux 4.15 | Linux Kernel | 2017-10-13 |
| Librem 5 Smartphone Hits Its $1.5 Million Dollar Goal | Hardware | 2017-10-09 |
| Purism Continues To Explore i.MX6/i.MX8 For The Librem 5 Phone | Hardware | 2017-10-04 |
| Librem 5 Crosses $400k In Funding After Plasma Mobile Announcement | Hardware | 2017-09-17 |
| Purism's Librem 5 Is Nearing $100k In Funding, But A Long Journey Remains | Hardware | 2017-08-27 |
| iMX6 Platforms Can Now Boot Android Proprietary-Free | Hardware | 2017-06-06 |
