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Reverse Engineered MSI WMI Platform Driver Being Worked On For Linux  Phoronix

Submitted for code review this weekend was a new MSI WMI Platform driver that was developed via reverse engineering MSI laptops. Initially this MSI WMI Platform driver is just exposing fan speed sensors but ultimately can be more useful for other Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) features...

Fedora 40 is just around the corner with more spins and flavors than ever  The Register

While there is a growing number of PCIe 5.0 consumer NVMe SSDs available through Internet retailers, when it comes to PCIe 5.0 NVMe SSD data center / enterprise grade solid-state drives there aren't as many yet and even for announced ones they have been relatively in short supply. In preparing for some upcoming Ubuntu 24.04 LTS tests and ahead of next-gen servers arriving, I was recently searching for some new PCIe 5.0 data center solid state drives. Arriving so far are the Kioxia KCD8XPUG1T92 CD8P-R and Kioxia KCMYXVUG3T20 CM7-V PCIe 5 SSDs. Here are a few benchmarks of those drives for those curious about the performance.

AlmaLinux 9.4 beta is out: 4 reasons to consider it for your desktop  ZDNet

The Audacity open-source digital audio editor is out today with a big feature update in the form of Audacity 3.5...

A patch is undergoing work to add Steam Deck IMU support to the HID-Steam kernel driver for supporting the accelerometer and gyroscope sensors of the Steam Deck controller...

Steam Deck Motion Sensors Being Worked On For Linux's HID-Steam Driver  Phoronix

Veeam expands data platform with Oracle Linux KVM support  IT Brief Australia

Linux Software Market at 15.3% Growth - Value Trap Or Opportunity?  WhaTech

How to Install and Dual Boot Linux on Your Mac  MUO - MakeUseOf

Linux creator Linus Torvalds talks about the 'XZ Utils issue,' 'open source development,' 'RISC-V,' 'the rise of AI,' and more  GIGAZINE（ギガジン）

Understanding Spectre V2: A New Threat to Linux Systems  Security Boulevard

Intel Enabling Linux Driver Display Support For Upcoming "Battlemage" GPUs  Phoronix

Intel's open-source Linux graphics driver engineers have been busy working to enable the display support for the upcoming Battlemage graphics cards as the successor to DG2/Alchemist...

AMD: "Additional Parts Of The Radeon Stack To Be Open Sourced Throughout The Year"  Phoronix

After recently announcing they'd be working to get out Micro-Engine Scheduler (MES) firmware documentation and open-source code, AMD said they would be working to open-source more of their software stack and hardware documentation. AMD repeated those calls over the weekend...

AMD's upstreaming effort around Secure Encrypted Virtualization Secure Nested Paging (SEV-SNP) to the mainline Linux kernel appears to be nearly wrapped up with the latest hypervisor patches now at their fourteenth revision...

AMD SEV-SNP Hypervisor Support Nears The Mainline Linux Kernel  Phoronix

Right now for buggy HID hardware or other input devices not exactly aligning to specs or having known hardware workarounds required, a new Linux kernel driver tends to be needed or at least quirks to be added to existing kernel driver code. There's no shortage of wonky HID hardware/drivers out there to deal with such odd cases. Due to the lengthy kernel cycles and other factors involved, leveraging (e)BPF has long been talked about as one of the areas where it may make sense for being able to more quickly send out hardware support fixes in the form of eBPF problems. The Rust-written udev-hid-bpf project is ready to help in that enabling effort...