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SiFive Helping To Teach Kids Programming With RISC-V HiFive Inventor Coding Kit

Phoronix - Tue, 01/19/2021 - 01:50
SiFive in cooperation with Tynker and BBC Learning have launched a Doctor Who themed HiFive Inventor Coding Kit. This Initial HiFive Inventor Coding Kit is intended to help kids as young as seven years of age get involved with computer programming through a variety of fun exercises and challenges involving the RISC-V powered mini computer and related peripherals like LED lighting and speaker control.

GCC 11 Is On The Final Stage Of Development With 60+ High Priority Regressions

Phoronix - Mon, 01/18/2021 - 22:22
GCC 11 entered its final stage of development today as it works towards releasing around the end of Q1 / early Q2 if their past cadence holds up. Before GCC 11.1 can debut as the first stable version, there are some 60+ "P1" high priority regressions that need to be resolved or otherwise demoted to lesser priority regressions...

Linux Support Is Coming To Allow De-Authorizing Thunderbolt Devices

Phoronix - Mon, 01/18/2021 - 21:27
While in recent years there has been growing interest in enhancing Linux's Thunderbolt security with offering security levels and other functionality to authorize supported/known Thunderbolt devices, surprisingly it's taken until 2021 to see the ability for Linux's Thunderbolt software connection manage to handle de-authorizing devices...

Itanium IA-64 Was Busted In The Upstream, Default Linux Kernel Build The Past Month

Phoronix - Mon, 01/18/2021 - 20:38
While Intel formally discontinued the Itanium processors just under two years ago, the Linux software support for IA-64 continues. However, as a possible sign of the times, the Linux 5.11 kernel build for it has been broken the past month...

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