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Intel Shadow Stack Finally Merged For Linux 6.6

Phoronix - Fri, 09/01/2023 - 05:04
The Intel Shadow Stack support that is part of their Control-flow Enforcement Technology (CET) has finally been merged for the Linux 6.6 kernel after it was previously rejected by Linus Torvalds...

Intel GDS/Downfall Linux Mitigation Updated To Confirm All Skylake CPUs Are Affected

Phoronix - Fri, 09/01/2023 - 02:41
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

Phoronix - Fri, 09/01/2023 - 00:58
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

Phoronix - Thu, 08/31/2023 - 23:13
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

Phoronix - Thu, 08/31/2023 - 21:42
The first release candidate of PHP 8.3 is now available for testing this annual feature release...

ReiserFS Officially Declared "Obsolete"

Phoronix - Thu, 08/31/2023 - 19:53
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

Phoronix - Thu, 08/31/2023 - 18:39
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...

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