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Linux 6.5 Continues Making Preparations For WiFi 7, Enabling New Hardware

Phoronix - Fri, 06/30/2023 - 22:18
The Linux 6.5 networking subsystem changes include more preparations around the ongoing WiFi 7 wireless standard as well as bringing up support for a number of newer network adapters...

SOF 2.6 Released: Intel Already Preparing Sound Open Firmware For Lunar Lake

Phoronix - Fri, 06/30/2023 - 20:00
Sound Open Firmware 2.6 was released on Thursday for this Intel-started open-source software project for having a fully open audio DSP firmware stack and related development tooling. While initially limited to Intel hardware support, SOF has since grown and seen support from the likes of Mediatek, Realtek, NXP, and even recent AMD SoCs...

LoongArch Adds Simultaneous Multi-Threading, SIMD/Vector Extensions

Phoronix - Fri, 06/30/2023 - 18:25
China's Loongson continues preparing the software support for their upcoming 3A6000 processors that will feature several new capabilities over their inaugural LoongArch-based 3A5000 series...

Cloud Hypervisor 33 Released With TDX Fix, New D-Bus API

Phoronix - Fri, 06/30/2023 - 18:06
Cloud Hypervisor has advanced quite nicely in the half-year it's been around since Intel software engineers began writing this Rust-based cloud-focused virtualization hypervisor. This VMM project has since become more independent and regularly receiving code contributions from the likes of Arm, Microsoft, and Tencent while also gaining the support of companies like AMD and Ampere. On Thursday marked the release of Cloud Hypervisor 33...

Linux 6.5 Should Spend Less Time Waiting On PCIe Devices

Phoronix - Fri, 06/30/2023 - 17:47
The PCI subsystem updates have been submitted for the ongoing Linux 6.5 development...

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