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Linux 6.4 Goes Ahead And Starts Removing Old PCMCIA Drivers

Phoronix - Fri, 04/28/2023 - 23:00
As noted back in March, the plan with Linux 6.4 is to start removing old, unused and unmaintained PCMCIA drivers. As part of that process to begin dropping old PCMCIA/CardBus driver code from the kernel, all of the PCMCIA "char" drivers were on the chopping block. Linus Torvalds pulled in the char/misc changes this week for Linux 6.4 and indeed those drivers are now removed. Meanwhile this pull introduced the new AMD CDX subsystem...

Linux 6.4 NFS Server Adds RPC-With-TLS Support

Phoronix - Fri, 04/28/2023 - 22:18
After the patches had been in development for well more than a year, sent out today for the Linux 6.4 merge window are the NFS server (NFSD) changes that include supporting RPC-with-TLS...

Zlib "Next Generation" Preparing Massive Decompression Speed-Up

Phoronix - Fri, 04/28/2023 - 18:45
After being in development for two years, a new beta release of Zlib-ng as the "next generation" data compression library is available with much faster data decompression...

Matrox Announces LUMA Graphics Cards Powered By Intel Arc Graphics

Phoronix - Fri, 04/28/2023 - 18:26
Matrox announced on Thursday their new graphics card series LUMA... The Matrox LUMA isn't powered by their own GPU design but rather they are now tapping Intel for their Arc Graphics discrete GPUs...

Linux 6.4 Scheduler Updates Fixes A Database Performance Regression

Phoronix - Fri, 04/28/2023 - 18:16
All of the scheduler changes were sent out on Thursday that are ready for the Linux 6.4 kernel...

Intel Releases SVT-AV1 v1.5 With More Tuning & Optimizations

Phoronix - Fri, 04/28/2023 - 17:56
Intel's open-source engineers maintaining the SVT-AV1 software package as a high performance, cross-platform AV1 video encoder have issued a sizable update...

Linux's NTFS Driver Drops "No Access Rules" Option, Adds Small Optimizations

Phoronix - Fri, 04/28/2023 - 17:43
The NTFS3 driver developed by Paragon Software that provides read/write support and other modern features for the NTFS file-system with the mainline kernel has seen a new round of changes for Linux 6.4...

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