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Coreboot 4.18 Released With AMD Morgana & Intel Meteor Lake SoC Support

Phoronix - Tue, 10/18/2022 - 18:00
Coreboot 4.18 had been planned for release in August but after that slipped, this newest Coreboot feature release is now shipping and comes with many hardware support improvements and other changes for this open-source system firmware implementation...

AMD CPU Microcode Fix For Linux To Patch Every Logical Thread Nears Mainline

Phoronix - Tue, 10/18/2022 - 17:42
Back in August I wrote about a patch to change AMD's CPU microcode loading on Linux to now patch every logical CPU thread rather than just per physical core. It turned out that at least some CPU microcode updates do make per-thread modifications while the Linux kernel microcode handling for AMD was just applying microcode updates at run-time on a per-core basis. That patch was seemingly forgotten about but has now been queued up as part of x86 "urgent" changes for the mainline kernel...

Microsoft Releases Its Linux Distribution Update For October 2022

Phoronix - Tue, 10/18/2022 - 17:22
Microsoft has released its monthly update to CBL-Mariner 2.0, its in-house Linux distribution serving a variety of purposes from WSL to Azure...

Mesa's Gallium3D Finishes Gutting Out Its Graw Interface

Phoronix - Tue, 10/18/2022 - 17:14
Two weeks ago a bunch of old Mesa code got removed including the XvMC front-end, Rbug as a remote debugging interface, and some of Graw that was to serve as a raw Gallium3D interface without a traditional Gallium front-end. Some of Graw was accidentally left in the source tree while now that has been caught and eliminated in further lightening the size of Mesa...

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