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Rust Abstractions Posted For Sockets & Other Fundamental Network Bits

Phoronix - Mon, 08/14/2023 - 21:52
While Linux 6.1 added the initial Rust infrastructure as an alternative programming language for writing new kernel modules, so far as of Linux 6.5 much of the upstreaming effort has been around adding new abstractions and supporting additional subsystems for making the Rust capabilities in the kernel more complete. The latest patch series is working on adding Rust abstractions for networking sockets and other fundamental networking bits...

Linux 6.6 Bringing Initial Support For Intel Lunar Lake's VPU4

Phoronix - Mon, 08/14/2023 - 18:32
In addition to all the interesting open-source graphics driver updates coming with Linux 6.6 like AMD FreeSync Panel Replay, Nouveau uAPI additions for NVK, Intel PSR for old laptops, and many other GPU driver changes, the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) subsystem with its AI accelerator "accel" framework/subsystem is rolling out initial support for the VPU4 coming with Intel Lunar Lake processors...

Eclipse OpenJ9 v0.40 Released For Small Footprint & High Performance JVM

Phoronix - Mon, 08/14/2023 - 18:23
Released last week was Eclipse OpenJ9 v0.40 as the latest feature update to this high performance JVM that focuses on being optimized for a small footprint...

Linux Reworks AMD Zen 1 Divide-By-Zero Mitigation After Original Fix Inadequate

Phoronix - Mon, 08/14/2023 - 18:13
Following last week's AMD Inception vulnerability another AMD Zen CPU bug came to light and that was performing a divide by zero on Zen 1 could end up leaking data with this DIV0 speculation bug. The original workaround was performing a dummy division 0/1 within the #DE exception handler but that's now turned out to be inadequate...

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