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Linux Preps IBPB-On-Entry Feature For AMD SEV-SNP Guest VMs

Phoronix - Wed, 03/04/2026 - 21:25
Heading toward the Linux 7.0 kernel and marked for back-porting to current stable Linux kernel versions is employing a new SEV-SNP security feature found on AMD Zen 5 processors for enhancing security of guest virtual machines...

AMD Engineer Leverages AI To Help Make A Pure-Python AMD GPU User-Space Driver

Phoronix - Wed, 03/04/2026 - 19:09
AMD's VP of AI Software, Anush Elangovan, has used Claude Code to help craft a pure-Python AMD GPU user-space driver. This Python user-space driver is currently being created to help exercise other ROCm code and for debugging in passing through the ROCm/HIP user-space stack...

Old ATI R300 Open-Source Driver Sees Another New Fix In 2026

Phoronix - Wed, 03/04/2026 - 18:58
The Radeon R300 series turns 24 years old this year and thanks to the open-source ATI R300 Gallium3D driver that began via reverse engineering, it's still continuing to see the occasional random fixes from the open-source community...

Ubuntu Still Figuring Out A Plan For Dealing With California's Digital Age Assurance Act

Phoronix - Wed, 03/04/2026 - 18:46
The talk this week among open-source projects from Linux distributions to app stores like Flathub is how to deal with California's latest insanity: the Digital Age Assurance Act. California's AB 1043 state law is mandating that operating systems -- Linux included -- collect age information during account setup and exposing that age to eligible apps beginning on 1 January 2027. That leaves much uncertainty for Linux distributions and other repositories/stores and more. Canonical issued a statement today to clarify that they basically don't have a solution to announce yet...

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