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AMD SEV-ES Sent In For Linux 5.10 To Further Secure Guest VMs

Phoronix - Wed, 10/14/2020 - 08:42
While the mainline Linux kernel for quite a while now has supported AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization for EPYC processors as a means of better securing guest virtual machines (VMs) and public clouds with hardware memory encryption and using one key per VM to not only protect between guests but also the hypervisor, with Linux 5.10 comes AMD SEV-ES as another step forward for secure virtualization on AMD EPYC...

Raspberry Pi 4 Vulkan Driver "V3DV" Merged Into Mesa 20.3

Phoronix - Wed, 10/14/2020 - 07:00
Good news for Raspberry Pi 4 users... The V3DV Vulkan driver developed over the past year for newer Broadcom VideoCore hardware with an emphasis on the Raspberry Pi 4 support is now mainlined in Mesa 20.3!..

Android 12 Appears To Support Using WireGuard

Phoronix - Wed, 10/14/2020 - 06:50
WireGuard has long been available as an app on the Google Play store for those wishing to use this cross-platform, open-source secure VPN tunnel solution on Google's mobile operating system. But for Android 12 it appears there will be a form of official support...

CodeWeavers Announces Rebrand With PortJump + ExecMode

Phoronix - Wed, 10/14/2020 - 01:38
CodeWeavers as the main contributor to the Wine code-base and employing many of the key developers thanks to the development of their Linux and macOS CrossOver software is working on a rebrand and promotion of their consulting services...

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