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Fwupd 2.0.2 Allows Updating Firmware On Many More Devices

Richard Hughes of Red Hat has released Fwupd 2.0.2 as the newest update to this open-source firmware updating solution for Linux systems...

2024-11-25 06:15

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While the end of year holidays are fast approaching, my commitment to Linux hardware and open-source software remains and there still is a lot of interesting content to come this year still -- each and every day, without change for roughly a decade. Un...

2024-11-25 00:00

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AMDXDNA Driver For Ryzen AI Now Ready To Appear In The Linux kernel

The AMDXDNA kernel driver for Linux systems that was made open-source in January for supporting the Ryzen AI NPU on laptop SoCs going back to the Ryzen 7040 "Phoenix" series is now one step away from appearing in the mainline Linux kernel in the near f...

2024-11-24 09:22

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Virtual CPUFreq Driver Coming With Linux 6.13 For Better Power/Performance Within VMs

Earlier this week was the main power management updates for Linux 6.13 that included switching AMD EPYC Turin to using the amd_pstate driver on supported systems. Sent out this weekend was another set of power management updates that also includes a no...

2024-11-24 06:58

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Linux 6.13 Will Report The Number Of Hung Tasks Since Boot

Following all of the MM patches earlier this week sent in by Andrew Morton, on Sunday morning he sent out all of the non-MM patches that he manages for the Linux kernel. Notable for Linux 6.13 with this pull request is presenting the hung task counter ...

2024-11-24 06:15

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FreeBSD 14.2-RC1 Brings Install Image Improvements

Ahead of FreeBSD 14.2 hopefully releasing in just over one week, FreeBSD 14.2-RC1 is out this weekend as the last planned development release for testing ahead of that much anticipated point release...

2024-11-23 17:07

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Microsoft Continues "Demikernel" Development LibOS For Kernel-Bypass I/O

A Microsoft Research project that was quietly announced a few years ago to some fanfare but not hearing much about since has been Demikernel as their library OS architecture for kernel-bypass I/O. A Phoronix reader brought up Demikernel this week and w...

2024-11-23 09:35

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IBM Power11 CPUs Launching In 2025 - Linux 6.13 Preps KVM Nested Guests For Power11

IBM isn't formally releasing Power11 processors until next year, but their software engineers continue being quite busy preparing the Linux kernel and other open-source software for Power11. The newest on the kernel side is enabling support for KVM nes...

2024-11-23 08:45

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9elements Takes Over Intel 1st Gen Xeon Scalable "Skylake" Support Within Coreboot

For those still running a 1st Generation Xeon Scalable "Skylake" era server, support for it within the open-source Coreboot firmware may continue to improve all these years later thanks to firmware consulting firm 9elements...

2024-11-23 06:48

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Wine 9.22 Enables Wayland Driver By Default

Wine 9.22 is out this weekend ahead of the Wine 10.0-rc1 in two weeks...

2024-11-23 06:21

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KDE Plasma 6.3 Sees More Feature Work, One More Crash Fix For KWin

KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his traditional weekly development recap that highlights all of the interesting work taking place within the KDE desktop space...

2024-11-23 06:14

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Linux CoC Announces Decision Following Recent Bcachefs Drama

Following the recent messaging from Bcachefs lead developer Kent Oversteet that Bcachefs changes for Linux 6.13 were rejected on the basis of his Code of Conduct, the Linux CoC committee has now formally announced their decision...

2024-11-22 18:30

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AMD 3D V-Cache Optimizer Driver Headlines The x86 Platform Enhancements In Linux 6.13

The x86 platform driver updates were merged this week for the in-development Linux 6.13 and include some nice refinements, especially for those using AMD Ryzen on Linux...

2024-11-22 14:35

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Linux 6.13 Enhances Interactions Between Intel TDX Guests & VMMs

There are some new improvements in Linux 6.13 for the Intel TDX code for Trust Domain Extensions in providing hardware-based security protections for virtual machines on recent Xeon processors...

2024-11-22 12:47

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AMD Linux Graphics Driver Now Allows Display Support With Modern GPUs On LoongArch

Following the Linux 6.13 DRM feature pull this week that brought many new open-source kernel graphics driver features, it's now time to further stabilize that new feature code with fixes. Sent out today were a batch of fixes for the AMDGPU/AMDKFD kerne...

2024-11-22 12:11

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AMD Bus Lock Trap Support Merged For Linux 6.13

Going back to early in the year AMD Linux engineers began preparing support for a new Bus Lock Trap feature with Zen 5 CPUs. With the in-development Linux 6.13 kernel that support is being merged...

2024-11-22 09:00

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Sched_Ext Changes Merged For Linux 6.13 With LLC & NUMA Awareness

One of the most prominent new features in Linux 6.12 was the merging of sched_ext for allowing extensible scheduler innovations by altering the scheduling behavior through (e)BPF programs. With the Linux 6.13 kernel there are some nice refinements to t...

2024-11-22 06:47

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XFS With Linux 6.13 Sees Major Rework To Real-Time Volumes

The XFS file-system updates were merged yesterday for the ongoing Linux 6.13 merge window...

2024-11-22 06:25

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Intel NPU Library v1.4 Adds Turbo Mode & Tensor Operations

Version 1.4 of the Intel NPU Acceleration Library was released today as the Python library for use on Windows and Linux for interacting with the Intel Neural Processing Unit (NPU) for AI offloading on recent Intel Core Ultra processors...

2024-11-22 06:16

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New Sound Hardware Support In Linux 6.13

SUSE engineer and sound subsystem maintainer Takashi Iwai has submitted all of the sound driver updates for the Linux 6.13 kernel...

2024-11-22 06:05

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