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[NEWS] Linux 6.16
« on: July 27, 2025, 08:41:48 pm »
It's finally out! A massive release IMHO. Lots of improvements for NVIDIA GPU driver. Unfortunately not much changes on the POWER side.

Ref: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.16-Released

My AMD Radeon RX6600 continues to work with this new version.
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Re: [NEWS] Linux 6.16
« Reply #1 on: July 28, 2025, 04:31:29 am »
The point now is to understand when there will be stable support for the new rdna 4 instead, I would like to buy for example the radeon pro 9700 to upgrade my 5700 after a long time... We'll see what happens in the next few months...

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Re: [NEWS] Linux 6.16
« Reply #2 on: July 28, 2025, 09:41:43 pm »
The point now is to understand when there will be stable support for the new rdna 4 instead, I would like to buy for example the radeon pro 9700 to upgrade my 5700 after a long time... We'll see what happens in the next few months...

I am more interested in discrete Intel GPUs even though I know Intel's been laying off teams working on Open Source softwares lately.
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Re: [NEWS] Linux 6.16
« Reply #3 on: July 30, 2025, 08:40:21 pm »
The point now is to understand when there will be stable support for the new rdna 4 instead, I would like to buy for example the radeon pro 9700 to upgrade my 5700 after a long time... We'll see what happens in the next few months...
hows the rdna 3 support on power currently? i have a w7600 workstation card id like to use whenever the new power raptor systems roll out.

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Re: [NEWS] Linux 6.16
« Reply #5 on: January 13, 2026, 04:23:29 pm »
Sorry guys, I've noticed that since some kernel releases, there are compilation issues when building a custom kernel. Every time I try to do so, it stops at a certain point and gives me this error:
Makefile:2025: .] error 2
debian/rules:7: build-arch error2
dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules binary subprocess returned exit status 2
makefile:1671: bindeb-pkg error 2
I've reported the most important things it says, but in any case, it still won't compile. I've tried both Debian and Ubuntu, which is a Debian derivative. I've even tried a server version of Debian 12, but nothing. There must be some file that needs to be modified with these new kernels that have changed something. Any idea what's going on?