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Linux 5.13 Adds Support For SPI NOR One-Time Programmable Memory Regions

Phoronix - Sun, 05/09/2021 - 18:13
The Linux 5.13 kernel has initial support for dealing with SPI one-time programmable (OTP) flash memory regions...

My first tech job: 8 stories from the community

opensource.com - Sun, 05/09/2021 - 15:00

Riffing on the topic of what unusual jobs people had before tech, a few of our responses from the community were more focused on jobs that led to a job in tech.

These eight authors shared their experiences. Share yours in the comments.


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Libaom, SVT-AV1 Mark New Open-Source AV1 Encoder Releases This Week

Phoronix - Sun, 05/09/2021 - 12:00
This week happened to see new releases of two prominent open-source AV1 video encoders...

Loongson 2K1000 Support Merged For Linux 5.13

Phoronix - Sat, 05/08/2021 - 23:56
Support for the Loongson 2K1000 is finally mainline with the forthcoming Linux 5.13 kernel...

Linux 5.13 Merges Support For Intel DG1 Graphics Platform Monitoring / Telemetry

Phoronix - Sat, 05/08/2021 - 21:14
Outside of the i915 kernel graphics driver one of the areas Linux 5.13 is seeing more discrete graphics card bring-up work is within their PMT driver for enabling platform monitoring / telemetry support with this inaugural Intel PCIe graphics card...

PowerPC Pull Brings 32-Bit Improvements For Linux 5.13 - eBPF + KFENCE

Phoronix - Sat, 05/08/2021 - 19:12
The PowerPC architecture pull request for the Linux 5.13 cycle brings some improvements to its 32-bit support and other enhancements...

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