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IBM Baking Some Nice Optimizations To EXT4's Multi-Block Allocator

Phoronix - Thu, 05/25/2023 - 22:00
IBM engineers have been working through some multi-block allocator improvements for the EXT4 file-system driver. In particular, they aim to address some shortcomings that were discovered when running various tests on IBM POWER hardware with a 64k block size...

AI Processing Unit "APU" Driver For Linux DRM Is Among The Latest Accelerator Drivers

Phoronix - Thu, 05/25/2023 - 21:08
Sent out last week by Alexandre Bailon with Bay Libre is the AI Processing Unit "APU" Direct Rendering Manager driver to interface between CPUs and AI Processing Units. The hope is this APU driver could be re-used by various hardware drivers while the initial focus is on bringing up the AI capabilities of the MediaTek MT8183 SoC...

Intel Engineers Revise Key Locker Implementation For Linux

Phoronix - Thu, 05/25/2023 - 20:03
Going back to 2020 has been work by Intel's open-source engineers on implementing Key Locker support for Linux. Intel Key Locker allows for encrypting/decrypting data with an AES key without having access to the raw/actual key. AES keys are converted into handles with Intel Key Locker that can then be used for carrying out encryption/decryption on that system until revoked or system state changes. Intel engineers on Wednesday posted their seventh iteration of the patches for supporting Key Locker on Linux...

Microsoft's CBL-Mariner Linux Distribution Now Ships The AMD Graphics Driver

Phoronix - Thu, 05/25/2023 - 18:30
In addition to Microsoft's Build 2023 conference this week where they announced expanded archive/compression format support, Windows Terminal improvements, more AI tech, and other initiatives, they also happened to release CBL-Mariner 2.0.20230518 as the newest version of their in-house Linux distribution...

More Wine Wayland Code Has Been Merged

Phoronix - Thu, 05/25/2023 - 18:16
Since the early bits of Wine Wayland support were merged back in March for building up a native Wayland display driver, Alexandros Frantzis has continued submitting more of the code for review and upstreaming. Wednesday marked the third chunk of Wine Wayland code to be merged...

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