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Intel Posts New Linux Patches Looking To Re-Enable ENQCMD Ahead Of Sapphire Rapids

Phoronix - Tue, 09/21/2021 - 04:25
While Intel is normally quite good with their new hardware support being in good shape well ahead of launch, their new code for supporting the ENQCMD functionality for the Data Streaming Accelerator (DSA) with Xeon "Sapphire Rapids" has been an exception. This summer the mainline Linux kernel disabled ENQCMD support since the code was "broken beyond repair" while now Intel engineers have sent out a new series looking to get it re-enabled...

CUPS 2.4 Coming Next Month, CUPS 2.5 + CUPS 3.0 Already In Planning

Phoronix - Tue, 09/21/2021 - 03:02
An Open Printing micro-conference took place today during the Linux Plumbers Conference 2021 week. While it's hard to get excited about printers in 2021, it is exciting the renewed effort around CUPS with it now being back to effectively led by the community and CUPS founder Michael Sweet who left Apple. CUPS 2.4 is coming as the first feature release in quite a while and then CUPS 2.5 followed by CUPS 3.0 are already being talked about with features being discussed...

OpenVPN DCO Linux Kernel Module Aims To Offer Faster VPN Performance

Phoronix - Tue, 09/21/2021 - 02:31
OpenVPN has been implementing a kernel module for data channel offload (DCO) capabilities to enhance the performance of this virtual private network system...

NVIDIA 470.74 Linux Driver Released With Several Fixes

Phoronix - Mon, 09/20/2021 - 21:47
NVIDIA has released their latest 470 series Linux driver point release...

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