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Fedora 38 Change Approved To Mandate Quicker Reboots/Shutdowns

Phoronix - Wed, 01/18/2023 - 23:51
Last month a change proposal was filed for aiming to yield faster reboots and shutdowns of Fedora Linux by shortening the time window that services can block the shutdown process. A modified version of that change proposal has now been cleared by the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee...

Intel Emerald Rapids Driver Additions Begin Landing In Linux 6.2

Phoronix - Wed, 01/18/2023 - 23:26
Starting to appear in Linux 6.2 as part of the various "fixes" pull requests are new device IDs for adding Intel 5th Gen Xeon Scalable "Emerald Rapids" support for drivers not requiring any other code changes over the existing Sapphire Rapids code path.s..

AMD Zen 4's Automatic IBRS Feature Queued Ahead Of Linux 6.3

Phoronix - Wed, 01/18/2023 - 20:00
With AMD Zen 4 processors there is a new Automatic IBRS (Indirect Branch Restricted Speculation) similar to Intel's Enhanced IBRS (eIBRS) functionality for offering lower-overhead Spectre V2 mitigations compared to the Retpoline approach used on Zen 3 and prior. Finally with Linux 6.3 that Auto IBRS support is now set to be merged...

Nouveau Kernel Driver Patches Begin Preparing For "NVK" Open-Source Vulkan Support

Phoronix - Wed, 01/18/2023 - 19:30
Over the past year NVK has taken shape as a -- currently out-of-tree -- Mesa Vulkan driver for supporting NVIDIA graphics hardware. This open-source NVIDIA Vulkan driver is inching closer to the point of being upstreamed into Mesa, but before it's usable for gamers/enthusiasts there is kernel work that must happen too...

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