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Linux 6.5 Slated To Add Provisioning Primitives For Thinly Provisioned Storage

Phoronix - Tue, 06/20/2023 - 21:22
Another feature scheduled to be sent in for the upcoming Linux 6.5 kernel merge window is introducing support for provisioning primitives for thinly provisioned storage with the Device Mapper (DM) code...

Linux 6.5 Adding Qualcomm Adreno 690 Open-Source GPU Support

Phoronix - Tue, 06/20/2023 - 20:03
The upcoming Linux 6.5 kernel is poised to add support for Qualcomm's Adreno 690 GPU to the open-source MSM kernel graphics/display driver. The A690 is notably used by the Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3 (SC8280XP) platform that in turn is what's found inside the Lenovo ThinkPad X13s laptop and other hardware...

XFS Large Extent Counts Feature No Longer Considered Experimental

Phoronix - Tue, 06/20/2023 - 18:42
As another feature on the way for the upcoming Linux 6.5 kernel cycle is the large extent counts feature of the XFS file-system no longer being treated as "experimental" but is now considered safe to deploy...

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