Mesa's Venus Vulkan driver has made cross-device functionality optional in order to enable QEMU support for this open-source driver for virtualized environments.
Cirrus engineers have seen a number of patches queued into the Linux sound subsystem's 'for-next' branch for enabling audio support on some new laptops with the upcoming Linux 6.10 kernel cycle.
Ahead of the Linux 6.9-rc7 kernel being released later today, some last minute pull requests for the week have enabled some new bits of hardware support where only new device IDs are necessary and thus safe to add at this late stage of Linux 6.9 development.