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AMD's "AMDVLK" Vulkan Driver Making It Easier To Switch To RADV Driver

Phoronix - Thu, 01/07/2021 - 02:52
AMD has begun staging their new open-source driver code ahead of the next AMDVLK driver release that will likely occur this week or next. With this latest AMDVLK code dump, there is easy run-time switching support between the AMDVLK and RADV Vulkan drivers...

OpenZFS 2.0.1 Released With Linux 5.10 Support, Many Fixes

Phoronix - Thu, 01/07/2021 - 02:33
Released at the end of November was the much anticipated OpenZFS 2.0 open-source ZFS file-system implementation for Linux and FreeBSD systems. Today that has been succeeded by OpenZFS 2.0.1 with support for newer Linux kernels and many bug fixes...

Fedora 34 Looks To Sign Individual Files Within RPMs

Phoronix - Wed, 01/06/2021 - 23:39
Yet another big change being eyed for Fedora 34 is to sign individual files within shipped RPM packages. The signatures will use the Linux Integrity Measurement Architecture (IMA) and in turn can be used to enforce run-time policies around only allowing the execution of trusted files...

Raspberry Pi "VC4" DRM Driver Sees 10/12 BPC Color Depth With Linux 5.12

Phoronix - Wed, 01/06/2021 - 22:15
With Linux 5.12 the Broadcom BCM2711 SoC used by the Raspberry Pi 4 will see 10 and 12-bit color support with the VC4 Direct Rendering Manager driver...

Google Continues Work On Linux "Restricted DMA" For Situations Like Remote WiFi Attacks

Phoronix - Wed, 01/06/2021 - 21:48
Google engineers continue working on the Linux kernel around "Restricted DMA" for helping to protect systems that lack DMA access control for hardware without an IOMMU...

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