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A Number Of System76 Laptop Coreboot Ports Reach Mainline

Phoronix - Wed, 11/03/2021 - 12:00
A number of System76 laptops saw their Coreboot open-source firmware ports merged to the mainline code-base today...

Linux Can Boot On Apple's M1 Pro But More Work Remains

Phoronix - Wed, 11/03/2021 - 06:37
Last month Apple announced the M1 Pro and M1 Max SoCs while already the very latest Linux patches originally written for the Apple M1 that launched last year paired with some small changes is allowing the open-source platform to boot on the M1 Pro MacBook...

Microsoft Begins Landing Hyper-V Isolation VM Support In Linux 5.16

Phoronix - Wed, 11/03/2021 - 03:02
Microsoft has submitted their set of Hyper-V hypervisor updates today for the Linux 5.16 merge window. This time around it's noteworthy with the initial enablement work around Hyper-V "Isolation VM" support...

Cluster-Aware Scheduling Lands In Linux 5.16

Phoronix - Wed, 11/03/2021 - 02:10
The "sched/core" scheduler updates landed on Monday into the Linux 5.16 kernel. Notable this pull request is the cluster-aware scheduling support...

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