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EROFS Receives Some Useful Improvements With Linux 6.4

Phoronix - Mon, 05/01/2023 - 04:21
It sure doesn't feel like it's already been five years since Huawei announced EROFS as a read-only file-system initially designed for Android devices but has proven useful in the mainline Linux kernel to Linux users at large with interesting use-cases also coming up around containers and more. With the in-development Linux 6.4 kernel are yet more improvements to this read-only file-system...

AMD IOMMU With Linux 6.4 Supports 5-Level Guest Page Tables

Phoronix - Sun, 04/30/2023 - 21:10
Back in 2021 AMD began preparing Linux kernel support for 5-level paging support with their future processors and building off the prior 5-level page table kernel support established by Intel. That was followed by AMD enabling 5-level page table support with KVM SVM in the Linux 5.15 kernel. AMD CPUs with 5-level page table support since launched in the form of 4th Gen EPYC "Genoa" processors. One piece only now coming together though is AMD IOMMU driver support for 5-level guest page table support...

OpenRazer 3.6 Brings Support For New Razer Peripherals On Linux

Phoronix - Sun, 04/30/2023 - 20:38
While prominent gaming peripheral manufacturer Razer still is not officially supporting Linux with their vast array of products, thanks to the community-driven OpenRazer project there is unofficial open-source support and can work quite well when paired with the likes of Polychromatic as a nice user interface. Out today is OpenRazer 3.6 in enabling the latest Razer products on Linux...

Linux 6.4 Continues Bringing Up More Compute Express Link Feature Code

Phoronix - Sun, 04/30/2023 - 18:55
With the work led by Intel engineers on bringing up the Compute Express Link specification features into the open-source kernel, Linux 6.4 is another cycle seeing a lot of enablement work on the CXL front...

HID Updates Bring Apple Quirks, Nintendo Controller Rumble Turning Into Vibrator Fix

Phoronix - Sun, 04/30/2023 - 18:28
The HID subsystem updates were merged this week for the Linux 6.4 kernel that is now half-way through its merge window...

sudo & su Being Rewritten In Rust For Memory Safety

Phoronix - Sat, 04/29/2023 - 23:47
With the financial backing of Amazon Web Services, sudo and su are being rewritten in the Rust programming language in order to increase the memory safety for the widely relied upon software...

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