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Linux 6.8 Will Make It More Clear When x86 32-bit Support Is Disabled

Phoronix - Tue, 12/12/2023 - 22:16
With Linux 6.7 there's now support for enabling/disabling 32-bit program support at boot-time. The "ia32_emulation=" argument can be used for enabling/disabling 32-bit user-space program support and the ability to support 32-bit system calls. Right now when forcing off the x86 32-bit support it can be confusing if the user is unaware as no warning is currently provided, but that is about to change...

FFmpeg Lands CLI Multi-Threading As Its "Most Complex Refactoring" In Decades

Phoronix - Tue, 12/12/2023 - 22:07
The long-in-development work for a fully-functional multi-threaded FFmpeg command line has been merged! The FFmpeg CLI with multi-threaded transcoding pipelines is now merged to FFmpeg Git ahead of FFmpeg 7.0 releasing early next year. FFmpeg is widely-used throughout many industries for video transcoding and in today's many-core world this is a terrific improvement for this key open-source project...

Intel Visual Sensing Controller Enablement Work Continues For Linux 6.8

Phoronix - Tue, 12/12/2023 - 19:45
Linux 6.6 brought an initial Intel Visual Sensing Controller "IVSC" driver. The Intel IVSC drivers have long been out-of-tree for use with Alder Lake laptops and newer. Linux 6.7 brought the La Jolla Cove Adadpter driver code as part of the IVSC controller. With Linux 6.8 there's yet more work landing on the IVSC front...

Cling 1.0 Released For Interactive C++ Interpreter

Phoronix - Tue, 12/12/2023 - 19:30
Cling 1.0 was released this week for this open-source interactive C++ interpreter that builds atop LLVM/Clang. Cling is implemented as an extension to LLVM/Clang to serve as an interpeter leveraging the read-eval-print loop (REPL) concept and relies on just-in-time (JIT) compilation...

Mesa Enables S3TC Support For 3D Textures

Phoronix - Tue, 12/12/2023 - 19:11
The feature work continues pouring in for Mesa 24.0 with new OpenGL and Vulkan driver features continuing to be enabled...

More Bcachefs Fixes Land In Linux 6.7

Phoronix - Tue, 12/12/2023 - 09:03
Of the many new features in Linux 6.7, one of the items exciting Phoronix readers the most is the merging of the long-in-development Bcachefs file-system...

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