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Etnaviv Driver Wires Up PPU Flop Reset Support Needed By Some Vivante Hardware

Phoronix - Thu, 01/08/2026 - 19:14
Sent out today was the latest batch of drm-misc-next changes to DRM-Next for staging ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.20~7.0 kernel cycle. The reverse-engineered Etnaviv DRM driver for Vivante graphics/NPU hardware has added a new "PPU flop reset" feature gleaned off studying the downstream vendor kernel driver...

Linux Kernel Considers Linking The Relocatable x86 Kernel As PIE In 2026

Phoronix - Thu, 01/08/2026 - 18:53
To allow for additional security hardening of the Linux kernel, a patch series has been updated more than one year later to link the relocatable x86_64 kernel as Position Independent Executable (PIE) code...

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