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Device Trees For Apple T2 SoCs Slated For Upstreaming In Linux 6.15

Phoronix - Thu, 02/13/2025 - 19:58
While there has been the recent drama over upstream maintainership over Apple Silicon / Asahi Linux code, Sven Peter is continuing to move things forward for the upstream kernel and this week sent out a set of Apple SoC DeviceTree updates intended for the upcoming Linux 6.15 kernel cycle...

NVIDIA Wiring Up Autonomous Performance Level Selection To Linux CPPC CPUFreq Driver

Phoronix - Thu, 02/13/2025 - 19:40
Similar to the Autonomous Performance Level Selection and Energy Performance Preference (EPP) support already found within the Intel P-State and AMD P-State CPU frequency scaling drivers for their modern processors, NVIDIA engineers are working on similar support for the CPPC CPUFreq driver that can benefit their Grace processor...

Wayland Color Management & HDR Protocols Expected To Be Merged Imminently

Phoronix - Thu, 02/13/2025 - 19:30
Today could finally be the day. In the works for 5+ years, the Wayland color management and HDR protocol additions look like they will finally be merged in the coming hours...

OpenSUSE Tumbleweed Switching From AppArmor To SELinux For New Installations

Phoronix - Thu, 02/13/2025 - 09:47
SUSE/openSUSE has a long history with the AppArmor Linux security module going back to the Novell days and when AppArmor was originally known as SubDomain. OpenSUSE/SUSE and Ubuntu Linux have been big proponents of AppArmor for Linux security but now moving forward on new installations of openSUSE Tumbleweed it will be defaulting to Security Enhanced Linux (SELinux)...

Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS Delayed To Next Week

Phoronix - Thu, 02/13/2025 - 08:06
Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS along with new point releases for its derivatives had been scheduled for release on Thursday. But a last minute issue has delayed this release...

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