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Linux Kernel Changes Proposed So Intel TDX KVM Guests Avoid Crashing The Host

Phoronix - Tue, 08/24/2021 - 20:53
Shortly after Intel's TDX whitepaper was made public last year for better protecting virtual machines, Intel open-source engineers began posting support patches for bringing up Trust Domain Extensions under Linux. That work remains ongoing and now further Linux kernel infrastructure work is pending to better deal with the notion of guest private memory afforded by TDX...

Arm Posts New GCC Compiler Patches Due To New Vulnerability Affecting ARMv8-M TrustZone

Phoronix - Tue, 08/24/2021 - 19:55
Made public on Monday was CVE-2021-35465 as a new security vulnerability affecting various Arm products. For unmitigated (ARMv8-M) hardware, Arm has posted a series of GCC compiler patches for working around the issue...

HSE 2.0 Open-Source Storage Engine Is On The Way From Micron

Phoronix - Tue, 08/24/2021 - 18:39
Announced back in April of 2020 was Micron's HSE as an open-source storage engine optimized for solid-state drives and persistent memory. After quickly crossing the v1.0 milestone and working its way up to HSE 1.9 at the end of last year, there hasn't been any updates since. Fortunately, the project is still alive and HSE 2.0 is on the way...

AMD's Open-Source Mesa Driver Continues To Be Ruthlessly Optimized For Workstation Performance

Phoronix - Tue, 08/24/2021 - 18:05
One of the areas where AMD's long-standing "PRO" OpenGL driver has generally held an advantage over RadeonSI Gallium3D has been around workstation software but that has been changing...

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