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Kernel Electric-Fence: Linux 5.12 Merges KFence For Low-Overhead Memory Safety Feature

Phoronix - Sat, 02/27/2021 - 02:52
Linus Torvalds just merged a set of patches that includes KFence. Short for the Kernel Electric Fence, KFence is a low-overhead memory safety error detector/validator that is suitable for use in production kernel builds...

RISC-V With Linux 5.12 Begins Mainlining SiFive's FU740 Support, NUMA

Phoronix - Sat, 02/27/2021 - 01:32
The Linux 5.12 merge window is drawing to a close this weekend while being sent in this morning were the RISC-V updates that tend to excite the free software enthusiasts...

Watch Out For Possible Data Loss On Early Linux 5.12 Kernels

Phoronix - Fri, 02/26/2021 - 23:00
As a quick PSA for those that may be eager to test out early Git builds of the Linux 5.12 kernel, I've been hitting a very nasty issue on multiple systems leading to corruption / data loss...

Linux 5.12 To Expose Firmware Performance Data

Phoronix - Fri, 02/26/2021 - 20:22
Last week saw the main set of ACPI and power management updates for Linux 5.12 while for the second week of the merge window has been the follow-up work with Intel Simple Firmware Interface removal and also an additional ACPI update...

More Open-Source Adreno 500 Series Support, A6xx Speedbin Sent In For Linux 5.12

Phoronix - Fri, 02/26/2021 - 19:24
Last week the main set of DRM subsystem updates were sent in for the Linux 5.12 merge window. That pull included exciting additions like Radeon RX 6000 series OverDrive and Intel Xe VRR. Mistakenly left out of that pull request last week were the open-source Qualcomm Adreno driver improvements for the "MSM" kernel driver while now that code has landed...

GNU Poke 1.0 Released For Poking At Binary Data

Phoronix - Fri, 02/26/2021 - 19:07
The newest GNU project seeing its first release is GNU Poke, which is being inaugurated at v1.0 after being in development for the past three years...

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