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Linux 6.7 GPU Drivers: Intel Meteor Lake Stable & AMD Works On Upcoming Hardware

Phoronix - Tue, 10/31/2023 - 22:35
Sent out this morning was the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) feature pull request of updated graphics/display drivers for the in-development Linux 6.7 kernel. Notable this round is Intel Meteor Lake integrated graphics now being considered stable / enabled out-of-the-box, Intel Lunar Lake graphics support has started to get underway, and AMD continues working on their upcoming hardware platforms...

NVIDIA 545.29.02 Linux Driver Released With Much Better Wayland Support

Phoronix - Tue, 10/31/2023 - 20:52
Earlier this month NVIDIA published the R545 Linux driver beta while today it's been promoted to the stable series with the NVIDIA 545.29.02 Linux driver release...

Systemd Working On "Storage Target Mode" Feature - Inspired By Apple macOS

Phoronix - Tue, 10/31/2023 - 20:28
Lennart Poettering has been working on a new systemd feature called systemd-storagetm that is inspired by the Apple macOS "Target Disk Mode" feature...

Zhaoxin Yongfeng CPU Support Merged For The GCC 14 Compiler

Phoronix - Tue, 10/31/2023 - 18:47
The GCC 14 compiler has merged support for the Zhaoxin Yongfeng processors via the new -march=yongfeng and -mtune=yongfeng compiler options...

Rust WQ Abstractions, Rust Toolchain Upgrade & Android Kernel Builds For Linux 6.7

Phoronix - Tue, 10/31/2023 - 18:34
Merged one year ago was the initial Rust code for the Linux kernel back in Linux 6.1. We're now up to the Linux 6.7 development cycle and the enabling of more kernel functionality so it can be used/accessed from Rust code remains ongoing along with continuing to bump the base toolchain requirements and other functionality to make it more practical to write future Linux device drivers within this memory safe programming language...

Bcachefs Merged Into The Linux 6.7 Kernel

Phoronix - Tue, 10/31/2023 - 17:43
Less than twenty-four hours after Bcachefs was submitted for Linux 6.7, this new open-source file-system has been successfully merged for this next kernel version...

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