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EXT4's Fast Commit Feature Faster & More Scalable With Linux 5.18

Phoronix - Thu, 03/31/2022 - 01:39
Last week the EXT4 file-system feature updates were submitted and merged for the ongoing Linux 5.18 merge window...

What's KernelCare? - Linux Journal

Google News - Thu, 03/31/2022 - 01:35
What's KernelCare?  Linux Journal

Intel Introduces The Arc A-Series Mobile Graphics

Phoronix - Wed, 03/30/2022 - 23:00
Intel today is formally introducing their Arc 3 series mobile graphics that will begin appearing in laptops beginning in April while Arc 5 and Arc 7 graphics are coming out in the "early summer" for the much anticipated Intel discrete graphics offerings.

AMD To Expose More PSP Security Information Under Linux, Including State Of CPU Fuses

Phoronix - Wed, 03/30/2022 - 19:00
Right now under Linux it isn't quick and easy to figure out if the likes of (Transparent) Secure Memory Encryption are enabled and working but a new patch series will more easily expose the security attributes of the AMD Platform Security Processor (PSP) to users on Linux. Among the information to be exposed will also include whether the CPU is fused in the name of tampering prevention...

Intel Preparing For SVT-AV1 1.0 Video Encoder With More AVX2 Optimizations

Phoronix - Wed, 03/30/2022 - 17:56
Back in January Intel engineers released SVT-AV1 0.9 with significant speed-ups to this open-source AV1 encoder while now as we roll into Q2, SVT-AV1 v1.0 is being readied for launch...

NVIDIA Tegra Video Decode Driver Promoted In Linux 5.18

Phoronix - Wed, 03/30/2022 - 17:36
Part of the mainline kernel has been Tegra-VDE as an originally reverse-engineered NVIDIA Tegra video decode driver. After much work on that driver by developer Dmitry Osipenko, it's been promoted out of "staging" with Linux 5.18 among other media subsystem changes...

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