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GNU Binutils Lands New "SFrame" Format Support For Simple Stack Unwinding

Phoronix - Thu, 11/17/2022 - 22:00
Being merged this week to GNU Binutils is initial support for reading and writing to new "SFrame" sections of binaries...

openSUSE Leap Micro 5.3 Released For Modern, Lightweight Linux OS

Phoronix - Thu, 11/17/2022 - 20:24
OpenSUSE has officially released openSUSE Leap Micro 5.3 as the newest version of their OS built atop SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP4 and SLE Micro 5.3 for providing a lightweight, modern OS that is auto-updating, immutable, and provides other distinct features over Tumbleweed or Leap...

AMD Introduces New Hotplug Driver Option For The X.Org Server

Phoronix - Thu, 11/17/2022 - 19:30
Currently when hot-plugging a new GPU to a running X.Org Server, the generic xf86-video-modesetting DDX driver ends up being utilized. However, a new "HotplugDriver" xorg.conf option has been introduced by AMD to allow users to specify their desired DDX driver. In turn this makes it possible for those hot-plugging hardware like AMD Radeon GPUs such as within eGPU enclosures to specify using the xf86-video-amdgpu driver instead...

Mesa's Asahi/AGX Gallium3D Driver Makes Early Prep Changes For WIP Kernel Driver

Phoronix - Thu, 11/17/2022 - 19:00
Mesa's AGX "Asahi" Gallium3D driver for providing OpenGL / GLES support on Apple M1/M2 SoCs has begun making some early preparatory changes for eventually supporting the in-development DRM/KMS kernel driver. The kernel driver is still a work-in-progress and not close to being merged yet and the user-space API not yet set in stone, but some early changes in better preparing the Mesa driver for actually running on the Apple Silicon hardware under Linux have been merged...

Linux 6.1 Adds Support For The Microsoft Surface Pro 9

Phoronix - Thu, 11/17/2022 - 18:27
This week's batch of platform-drivers-x86 "fixes" for the ongoing Linux 6.1 kernel is a bit more notable than usual. In particular, the Surface Pro 9 and Surface Laptop 5 devices are now supported along with some other hardware support enablement...

FBDEV Drivers Will Honor "nomodeset" With Linux 6.2

Phoronix - Thu, 11/17/2022 - 18:21
Adding to the material queuing in DRM-Next is another drm-misc-next pull which is likely the last batch of DRM core and small driver feature updates expected for Linux 6.2...

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