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Linux Gets New Thermal Driver Code Ahead of Alder Lake

Phoronix - Sun, 07/04/2021 - 21:14
The thermal subsystem updates for the Linux 5.14 kernel include more work on Intel's int340x driver that is used by newer Intel laptops for dealing with their varying thermal control capabilities and exposing more thermal information to user-space for use by Intel's Thermal Daemon (Thermald). This cycle the work includes a new driver that will be used by next-gen Alder Lake SoCs...

GNU Binutils 2.37 Is On The Way - Finally Drops ARM Symbian OS Support

Phoronix - Sun, 07/04/2021 - 19:16
GNU Binutils 2.37 has been branched and the release process initiated for these low-level GNU components likely seeing their v2.37 release later this month...

Linux Will Keep Core Scheduling Disabled By Default

Phoronix - Sun, 07/04/2021 - 18:29
Among the many new features that were sent in so far this week for the Linux 5.14 merge window was the long in-development work on "core scheduling" to reduce the Hyper Threading information leakage risks from side channels and help ensuring deterministic performance on such HT/SMT systems by controlling the resources that can run on a sibling thread. As a follow-up to that article from a few days ago, core scheduling will now be disabled by default...

Linux 5.14 Improving Its Distributed Lock Manager To Allow Message Re-Transmission

Phoronix - Sun, 07/04/2021 - 18:04
The Linux kernel's Distributed Lock Manager as a general purpose DLM for kernel and user-space applications with cluster computing systems is seeing a useful reliability improvement with Linux 5.14...

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opensource.com - Sun, 07/04/2021 - 15:01
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Linux 5.14 With EXT4 Adds Interface To Help Prevent Information Leakage From The Journal

Phoronix - Sun, 07/04/2021 - 08:32
The EXT4 file-system updates have been sent in for the ongoing Linux 5.14 merge window...

CXL Bring-Up Continues - More Infrastructure For Linux 5.14, "More Meat" For Linux 5.15

Phoronix - Sat, 07/03/2021 - 23:54
Intel open-source engineers continue working on the bring-up around Compute Express Link (CXL) as the new open standard interconnect built off PCIe aiming to empower next-generation servers...

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