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“To be, or not to be,” vulnerable… How customers and partners can understand and track Red Hat security vulnerabilities

Red Hat News - Mon, 08/10/2020 - 12:00

You can avoid the "heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks" of conflicting vulnerability reports by following Red Hat's OVAL feed and security ratings. Here's how...

Linux 5.9 Enables P2PDMA For All AMD CPUs Zen + Newer

Phoronix - Mon, 08/10/2020 - 08:41
The PCI subsystem updates have been sent in for the Linux 5.9 kernel. Peer-to-peer DMA support is now solid for all AMD CPUs of the Zen family or newer...

Intel Emmitsburg Support Begins Appearing In Linux 5.9

Phoronix - Mon, 08/10/2020 - 01:18
Not much is publicly known about Intel's Emmitsburg chipset. Prior to noticing some Linux patches recently referencing Intel Emmitsburg, the only other public mentions of it has been in the context of the Windows HWiNFO program mentioning it in their change-log. With Linux 5.9, Intel has begun adding Emmitsburg support...

NihAV Is An Experimental Multimedia Framework Written In Rust

Phoronix - Mon, 08/10/2020 - 00:08
NihAV is a new open-source, multimedia framework being pursued by FFmpeg/Libav developer Kostya Shishkov...

AMD Sensor Fusion Hub Driver Under Review A Sixth Time For Linux

Phoronix - Sun, 08/09/2020 - 22:49
While a lot of interesting changes are coming for the in-development Linux 5.9 kernel, sadly a long overdue change isn't going to make the merge window and that is the AMD Sensor Fusion Hub driver...

Linux 5.9 Brings More IBM POWER10 Support, New/Faster SCV System Call ABI

Phoronix - Sun, 08/09/2020 - 21:59
With Linux 5.8 there is initial support for booting POWER10 CPUs while with Linux 5.9 there is more POWER10 work underway. Additionally, Linux 5.9 is bringing support for the newer and faster system call ABI for POWER9 and newer with the SCV instruction...

Fedora 33 Moving Closer To LTO-Optimizing Packages

Phoronix - Sun, 08/09/2020 - 19:27
Going back to last year Fedora has been working to enable link-time optimizations by default for their packages. That goal wasn't achieved for Fedora 32 but for Fedora 33 this autumn they still have chances of marking that feature off their TODO list...

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