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Linux 6.5 Brings WiFi & Bluetooth Support For The MIPS Creator CI20

Phoronix - Wed, 06/28/2023 - 21:47
Nearly a decade ago when there was more hope for the MIPS open-source ecosystem and the initial growth of lower-cost single board computers the MIPS Creator CI20 was launched by Imagination Tech. It wasn't too successful and MIPS development has since reached the end of the road, but finally with Linux 6.5 is the Bluetooth and WiFi on this MIPS single board computer going to finally be supported by the mainline kernel...

Oracle Developing "bpftune" For BPF-Based, Automatic Tuning Of Linux Systems

Phoronix - Wed, 06/28/2023 - 18:35
Well, here is something nifty being worked on by Oracle. Oracle engineers have been developing "bpftune" as a new always-on, automatic tuning of Linux systems -- in particular, the many different Linux kernel tunables available and this tuning system leverages the kernel's Berkeley Packet Filter (BPF) observability features to carry out its work...

NVIDIA SHIELD Controller Driver, Xbox Rumble Support For Linux 6.5

Phoronix - Wed, 06/28/2023 - 18:25
The HID subsystem updates have been submitted for the ongoing Linux 6.5 merge window. Most notable is NVIDIA contributing a Linux kernel driver six years late for their SHIELD controller...

Microsoft Adds Direct3D 12 Powered AV1 Video Encoding To Mesa

Phoronix - Wed, 06/28/2023 - 18:07
Microsoft's latest contribution to the Mesa 3D graphics driver stack is enhancing their Direct3D 12 driver to support AV1 video encoding with the VA-API interface...

EXT4 With Linux 6.5 Will See Much Faster Parallel Direct I/O Overwrite Performance

Phoronix - Wed, 06/28/2023 - 17:53
Ted Ts'o has submitted all the EXT4 feature changes for the Linux 6.5 merge window. EXT4 this round is seeing various clean-ups, bug fixes, and other enhancements but there is one performance optimization worth calling attention to...

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