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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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