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Intel GDS/Downfall Linux Mitigation Updated To Confirm All Skylake CPUs Are Affected
The Linux mitigation for the Intel Gather Data Sampling (GDS) "Downfall" vulnerability was updated to reflect all Skylake and Kabylake CPUs being vulnerable to this nasty issue. Due to those Skylake client processors reaching the end of their official support life at Intel, the original Linux mitigation for GDS/Downfall didn't properly protect those older Core processor models...
NFSD With Linux 6.6 Brings A Thrilling New Feature
Chuck Lever III of Oracle has submitted the NFSD changes for Linux 6.6 for this NFS server of which he is particularly thrilled about one of the new features this cycle...
AMD Open-Source GPU Kernel Driver Above 5 Million Lines, Entire Linux Kernel At 34.8 Million
With the in-development Linux 6.6 kernel adding support for more upcoming Radeon graphics processors, that means more auto-generated header files for the new IP blocks... I was curious to see the overall size now of the AMDGPU kernel driver along with its associated code like the AMDKFD compute driver. It's now above 5 million lines for the kernel driver portion...
PHP 8.3 RC1 Released With json_validate, Anonymous Read-Only Classes
The first release candidate of PHP 8.3 is now available for testing this annual feature release...
ReiserFS Officially Declared "Obsolete"
As part of updates to the older file-system drivers for Linux 6.6, the ReiserFS file-system is no longer marked as "Supported" but is officially treated as "Obsolete" within the Linux kernel...
Linux 6.6 Graphics Drivers: NVK uAPI, New AMD GPUs, More Meteor Lake, CI Support
The Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) subsystem updates for the Linux 6.6 kernel to provide new features for the number of kernel graphics drivers and other AI accelerator drivers within the mainline kernel...
GenPD Subsystem Posted For Linux 6.6 - Torvalds Wonders What The Heck Is "GenPD"
A pull request was sent out this week to introduce the GenPD subsystem and add a new drivers/genpd area for the GenPD provider drivers to the kernel... To which Linus Torvalds wonders what the heck is a "GenPD" as probably most of you are also wondering about...
More Wine Wayland Code Submitted For Review - Part 6
As part of the long ongoing effort around Wine Wayland support for upstream in order to be able to utilize Wayland directly without a reliance on XWayland when running Windows games/apps, the sixth part to that enablement has been posted for review...
Linux 6.6 Gets More Voltage & Temperature Sensors Working On Some Desktop Motherboards
The hardware monitoring "HWMON" subsystem updates have been submitted and merged for the ongoing Linux 6.6 kernel merge window...
XFS Begins Landing Online Repair, New Release Manager Takes Over
There are some notable changes around the XFS file-system for the in-development Linux 6.6 kernel, including a new release manager taking over duties...
Google Preparing To Rollout Stable Chrome Releases Even Faster
Moving forward Google engineers are working to roll-out new Chrome stable releases even faster...
JetBrains Enabling Wayland Support For IntelliJ-Based IDEs
For those making use of the IntelliJ integrated development environment (IDE), JetBrains has been working to enable native Wayland support...
Linux 6.6 Adds Support For Intel Agilex 5 FPGAs, Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 2
The various Arm platform and SoC changes have been submitted for the ongoing Linux 6.6 merge window...
AMD Publishes SEV Firmware As Open-Source
While I have been eagerly following the AMD openSIL project for open-source CPU initialization that will eventually replace AGESA, today AMD announced a new open-source firmware drop: the SEV firmware has been made open-source...
AMD Working On New OverDrive GPU Overclocking Controls For Linux
AMD's open-source Linux graphics driver engineers are working on a new set of interfaces for user-space to support OverDrive overclocking. While AMD GPU OverDrive overclocking has been supported on Linux for years, the current interface isn't sufficient for all the power/overclocking controls moving forward...
Linux Sysctl Cleaning To Eventually Erase ~64 Bytes Of Bloat Per Array
Some code cleaning within the sysctl space of the Linux kernel will eventually eliminate around 64 bytes of bloat per array within the kernel where a sentinel can be removed...
AMD ROCm 5.6.1 Compute Stack Released With A Few Fixes
While we are eagerly awaiting ROCm support for more RDNA3 GPUs said to be coming later this calendar year, shipping Tuesday night was ROCm 5.6.1 as the newest point release for this open-source GPU compute stack...
MidnightBSD 3.1 Released With Ravenports Integration
MidnightBSD 3.1 is now available for this desktop-minded, FreeBSD-forked operating system that aims to be "the BSD for everyone" with an Xfce-based desktop and focus on ease of use...
SELinux In Linux 6.6 Removes References To Its Origins At The US NSA
Security Enhanced Linux (SELinux) has been part of the mainline kernel for two decades to provide a security module implementing access control security policies and is now widely-used for enhancing the security of production Linux servers and other systems. Those that haven't been involved with Linux for a long time may be unaware that SELinux originates from the US National Security Agency (NSA). But now with Linux 6.6 the NSA references are being removed...
Linux 6.6 To Better Protect Against The Illicit Behavior Of NVIDIA's Proprietary Driver
The Linux 6.6 modules infrastructure is changing to better protect against the illicit behavior of NVIDIA's proprietary kernel driver...