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Linus Torvalds Comments On Bcachefs Prospects For Linux 6.6

Phoronix - Thu, 09/07/2023 - 04:47
A few days ago Bcachefs was proposed for inclusion to Linux 6.6 after it failed to be pulled for the prior Linux 6.5 kernel cycle. Since then we've been waiting to see what action Linus Torvalds would take with including Bcachefs... He's finally commented on it today but remains to be seen if it will land for this kernel release...

Raspberry Pi's V3D Kernel Driver Prepares For "CPU Jobs" To Assist Vulkan

Phoronix - Thu, 09/07/2023 - 03:22
Igalia developers are working on extending the Broadcom V3D DRM kernel graphics driver, which is most notably used by the latest Raspberry Pi devices, to support the notion of "CPU jobs" in kernel space to assist in their Vulkan support. These CPU jobs are for assisting the support where their Broadcom GPU driver isn't capable of some Vulkan commands and thus needs to be punted off and handled by the processor...

CephFS Completes Multi-Year Effort Adding FSCRYPT Support

Phoronix - Thu, 09/07/2023 - 02:00
The Ceph changes were submitted today for the ongoing Linux 6.6 merge window and with it comes one big shiny feature addition: support for making use of the FSCRYPT file-system encryption framework...

GNOME Mutter 45 Release Candidate Brings Meta Toolkit Library, Other Last Minute Work

Phoronix - Wed, 09/06/2023 - 23:20
The release candidates were tagged this morning of GNOME Shell and Mutter ahead of the "GNOME 45.rc" test release coming out within the next few days. With the release candidates are some last-minute changes worth mentioning...

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