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Asahi Linux On The Apple M1: "Usable As A Basic Linux Desktop" Sans GPU Acceleration

Phoronix - Wed, 10/06/2021 - 07:22
The Asahi Linux project that has been working nearly the past year on bringing up Apple M1 support under Linux has issued their September 2021 porting and reverse engineering report...

Linux 5.16 Preps More Display Code For Alder Lake P & DG2/Alchemist

Phoronix - Wed, 10/06/2021 - 04:44
In Linux 5.14 Intel introduced initial Alder Lake P enablement driver support including around the new "XeLPD" display block. With Linux 5.15 there was the initial enablement around DG2/Alchemist graphics. Now for Linux 5.16 is a significant amount of new driver code for actually getting the display support into shape for both DG2 and ADL-P...

Linux 5.16 KVM To Land RISC-V Hypervisor Support

Phoronix - Wed, 10/06/2021 - 02:36
Coming with the Linux 5.16 kernel cycle will be support for RISC-V virtualization with the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM)...

CentOS Kmods SIG Working On exFAT, WireGuard Additions

Phoronix - Wed, 10/06/2021 - 02:17
Created this year has been the CentOS Kmods special interest group for dealing with deprecated device support and out-of-tree modules. This Kmods SIG has begun crafting their initial set of extra kernel modules for use on CentOS...

Updated Zstd Planned For Linux 5.16 With Better Performance

Phoronix - Tue, 10/05/2021 - 21:10
As reported on last week, an updated Zstd implementation for the Linux kernel is being re-attempted by Zstd developer Nick Terrell at Facebook. Today he sent out the latest Zstd kernel patches to provide a much newer version of the code compared to what is currently mainlined and will provide much better performance and numerous fixes...

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