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Intel Prepares More Nova Lake Graphics/Display Enablement For Linux 7.3

Phoronix - Fri, 07/03/2026 - 19:30
On Thursday Intel sent out their first batch of Intel kernel graphics driver changes of new feature material targeting the Linux 7.3 kernel. This first batch of drm-intel-next for v7.3 continues to focus heavily on lining up Nova Lake's Xe3P integrated graphics/display support...

NVIDIA VR-NVL BMC Device Tree Being Upstreamed For OpenBMC Support

Phoronix - Fri, 07/03/2026 - 19:02
NVIDIA's latest Linux kernel mailing list patches are for providing the Device Tree for the baseboard management controller (BMC) of their Vera Rubin VR-NVL server platform. With the Linux kernel patches and also for U-Boot, it's part of the upstreaming effort for supporting the open-source OpenBMC software on their latest hardware...

Linux 7.2-rc2 BPF Code Being Hardened Against JIT Spraying Attacks

Phoronix - Fri, 07/03/2026 - 18:49
Some post-merge-window code changes merged overnight ahead of Linux 7.2-rc2 this weekend is hardening the kernel's BPF code against JIT spraying attacks...

Linux Preparing To Retire Its 32-bit MSR Interfaces

Phoronix - Fri, 07/03/2026 - 18:32
Currently measuring in at 32 patches, SUSE engineer Juergen Gross has been leading the effort to end the Linux kernel's usage of their 32-bit model specific register (MSR) interfaces so the more modern 64-bit interfaces can be exclusively used. This allows for better code unification and cleaning up the MSR code...

Install codebase-memory-mcp for Faster AI Coding

Tecmint - Fri, 07/03/2026 - 14:32
The post Install codebase-memory-mcp for Faster AI Coding first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

If your AI coding agent keeps reading the same files every time you ask a question, it’s wasting time and

The post Install codebase-memory-mcp for Faster AI Coding first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

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