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vDSO getrandom() Ported To Five More CPU Architectures With Linux 6.12
Linux 6.11 introduced the getrandom() in the vDSO support for faster yet secure user-space random number generation needs. Initially that was focused on Linux x86_64 while for Linux 6.12 is ported to five more architectures...
2024-09-23 10:04
Linux 6.12 Adding HDMI CEC Driver For A 4K HDMI Splitter/Amplifier
The media subsystem updates were submitted today for the Linux 6.12 kernel merge window. Notable this cycle is a new HDMI CEC driver for a 4K HDMI splitter/amplifier for those looking for a device that can be controlled from within Linux using the HDMI...
2024-09-23 08:47
Linux Preparing Support For The RISC-V Framework Laptop 13
Back in June it was teased that Framework Computer in collaboration with DeepComputing would be releasing a RISC-V motherboard for the Framework Laptop 13. That RISC-V laptop motherboard has yet to be officially released but Linux kernel patches were p...
2024-09-23 06:40
Servo Browser Engine Restores Firefox Devtools Support
The Servo open-source browser layout engine has supported making use of the Firefox Devtools code for the provided web developer tools such as the HTML web page inspector and browser console. But that support had fallen into disrepair. Fortunately, tha...
2024-09-23 06:29
FFmpeg Merges Implicit DRM Synchronization For Vulkan
Following Vulkan Video H.264/H.265 video encoder support being merged into the FFmpeg library, the latest improvement for this open-source multimedia API when leveraging Vulkan is implicit DRM synchronization...
2024-09-23 06:20
Linus Torvalds Adds User-Access Fast Validation Via Address Masking To Linux 6.12
In between Linus Torvalds' busy week being in Vienna for the Linux Kernel Maintainer Summit and related Linux Foundation events as well as managing the Linux 6.12 merge window with landing new features like sched_ext and real-time PREEMPT_RT, he also m...
2024-09-22 16:14
Intel TPEBS & LBR Event Logging Supported By Linux 6.12 With Perf Tools
The perf tooling changes were merged today for the in-development Linux 6.12 kernel. Notable on the perf tools side is supporting some features found in newer Intel processors...
2024-09-22 14:45
Bcachefs Hopes To Remove "EXPERIMENTAL" Flag In The Next Year
Bcachefs lead developer Kent Overstreet has submitted all of the Bcachefs file-system feature patches for the Linux 6.12 kernel merge window. In his pull request he also lays out his ambitions to remove the "EXPERIMENTAL" flag from Bcachefs within the ...
2024-09-22 06:30
Native PCIe Enclosure Management Submitted For Linux 6.12
The PCI changes for the in-development Linux 6.12 kernel add support for Native PCIe Enclosure Management "NPEM" as a code contribution by Intel for implementing the PCIe spec to standardize storage LEDs...
2024-09-22 06:08
Updated DeviceTree Gets Microsoft Windows Dev Kit 2023 Booting Linux
Microsoft's Windows Dev Kit 2023 also known as "Project Volterra" was an early effor to improve the Windows on ARM support by developers via having a nice small form factor ARM PC to run Windows 11. With pending DeviceTree patches there would be mainli...
2024-09-22 05:57
Sched_ext Merged For Linux 6.12 - Scheduling Policies As BPF Programs
Linux 6.12 is shaping up to be a heck of a kernel update! Following real-time "PREEMPT_RT" going mainline after twenty years and many other kernel features merged this week, Linus Torvalds just pulled in the much anticipated sched_ext code!..
2024-09-21 13:48
Updated XZ Code Lands In Linux 6.12
The kernel patches collected by Andrew Morton were upstreamed today for the Linux 6.12 kernel. Among those changes are pulling in the updated XZ Embedded code...
2024-09-21 13:25
Firewire Maintainer Is Looking For Help Testing IEEE-1394 Devices On Linux 6.12
While not as exciting as some of the shiny new features for Linux 6.12 like real-time going mainline and Lunar Lake and Battlemage graphics by default, the Firewire (IEEE-1394) subsystem has seen some significant alterations this cycle. With Firewire h...
2024-09-21 09:17
Phoronix Premium Deal For Oktoberfest 2024
While there sadly the previously-annual Phoronix meet-up at Oktoberfest in Munich remains defunct, in honor of Oktoberfest 2024 kicking off today in Munich, it's time for the annual Phoronix Premium special. With the Oktoberfest sale you can go ad-free...
2024-09-21 08:49
VFS+XFS Changes Land In Linux 6.12 To Support Block Sizes Larger Than Page Size
Linux 6.12 yesterday merged the real-time "PREEMPT_RT" patches that had been in development for two decades. Today another big hitting feature was merged for Linux 6.12 that's been in development nearly as long...
2024-09-21 06:42
SDL Now Prefers Vulkan Over Direct3D 12 On Windows
The SDL abstraction library commonly used by cross-platform games now prefers using Vulkan on Windows as its ideal graphics API. Direct3D 12 has been demoted lower in priority compared to Vulkan for this Simple DirectMedia Layer...
2024-09-21 06:17
KDE Optimizes How It Finds Mount Points - Up To 80% Speed-Up
KDE developers have been busy preparing for Plasma 6.2 with lots of bug fixing and polishing while also beginning to land some features for Plasma 6.3...
2024-09-21 06:11
Oracle's UEK-Next Moves To Linux 6.10, Patches In sched_ext
Oracle has shifted their Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel to a Linux 6.10 base with UEK-next...
2024-09-21 05:29
AMD Releases ROCm 6.2.1 With FBGEMM Support, Installation Improvements
Following the AMD ROCm 6.2 release from early August, ROCm 6.2.1 was released on Friday evening as the first point release to that series for this AMD GPU compute stack for Linux systems...
2024-09-20 20:48
Wine 9.18 Delivers New Desktop Control Panel Applet
Wine 9.18 is out today as the newest bi-weekly development release for this open-source software that enables running Windows games and applications under Linux and other platforms...
2024-09-20 20:16