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Intel Submits Last Batch Of Xe Driver Feature Updates For Linux 6.19

Phoronix - Fri, 11/14/2025 - 22:10
Intel today sent out their last batch of planned feature patches for their Xe kernel graphics driver of material intended for Linux 6.19...

GNU C Library Adds Linux "mseal" Function For Memory Sealing

Phoronix - Fri, 11/14/2025 - 21:21
Introduced last year in the Linux 6.10 kernel was the mseal system call for memory sealing to protect the memory mapping against modifications to seal non-writable memory segments or better protecting sensitive data structures. The GNU C Library has finally introduced its mseal function making use of this modern Linux kernel functionality...

Mainline Linux Patches For The VisionFive 2 Lite: RISC-V For As Little As $19.9 USD

Phoronix - Fri, 11/14/2025 - 19:22
Following the mainline Linux kernel support for the VisionFive 2 RISC-V single board computer from StarFive, Linux kernel patches are on the way for their new VisionFive 2 Lite low-cost offering. With the StarFive VisionFive 2 Lite this RISC-V board can be procured for as little as $19.9 USD as one of the cheapest yet fairly capable RISC-V SBCs...

The Headaches Supporting Content Protection With Linux GPU Drivers

Phoronix - Fri, 11/14/2025 - 19:07
Intel driver engineer Suraj Kandpal presented at the recent X.Org Developer's Conference (XDC2025) on the challenges around supporting content protection on Linux such as for High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP) and Protected Audio Video Path (PAVP)...

Fedora 44 Looking At Replacing FBCON With KMSCON As Default VT Console

Phoronix - Fri, 11/14/2025 - 18:55
Fedora 44 is looking at replacing the Linux kernel's console "FBCON" with the user-space-based KMSCON implementation. Eventually the hope remains to deprecate the FBCON/FBDEV code within the Linux kernel...

GCC Compiler Developers Begin Considering C++20 Default

Phoronix - Fri, 11/14/2025 - 18:39
Compiler engineer Marek Polacek of Red Hat recently proposed making the C++20 language specification (or rather the GNU++20 dialect) the default C++ version when not otherwise specified...

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