If you build your own hardware for Linux, you’ll probably eventually want to write a driver which runs as a privileged program. While there are many things you can do in user space, for the ...

This course provides an introduction to Kernel programming for the Linux operating system, and the development of Linux kernel drivers for Embedded devices. The Yocto build system is introduced, which ...

Linus Torvalds announced the final release of Linux kernel 6.15. This latest kernel 6.15 ships with lots of fixes and driver ...

Nvidia's bad rep on Linux is due to proprietary drivers and past performance issues. Installing Nvidia drivers on Linux is simple if you follow your distro's instructions. Gaming-centric Linux ...

AMD has quietly released new Linux drivers for its latest graphics cards, the Radeon RX 9060 XT and the Radeon AI PRO R9700. The new drivers are part of the Radeon Software for Linux 25.10.1 package, ...

Rust will soon be part of Linux, Torvalds has decided. The memory safe programming language will join C and the other traditional languages developers use to create new pieces and drivers of the ...

Drivers for graphics cards contain a program called a compiler that converts shader programs that a game or application has issued into a binary format that the GPU can then run. AMD's Linux ...

A new fix made to Intel graphics drivers for Linux reportedly improves the ray tracing performance by up to 100x. Can Intel Arc hope for the same kind of improvements? As reported by Phoronix ...

The ongoing Asahi project to bring Linux to Apple Silicon has reached a milestone, adding the first conformant GPU driver for the family of chips. The Asahi Linux project for Mac first teased ...