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Linux Gaining SMP Support For The OpenPOWER Microwatt

Phoronix - Mon, 03/03/2025 - 19:23
Open-sourced back in 2019 was the OpenPOWER Microwatt as an open-source, soft processor core of Power ISA 3.0 and intended for use on FPGA boards and then there was seemingly short-lived work to fabricate a Microwatt chip and Microwatt also found its way for use within a BMC implementation. Linux 5.14 added support for this soft CPU core while the upcoming Linux 6.15 cycle is set to introduce SMP support for Microwatt...

Optimized AMD SEV Cache Flushing Patches Posted For Linux

Phoronix - Mon, 03/03/2025 - 19:06
The newest upstream-focused work around AMD SEV for Secure Encrypted Virtualization with EPYC server processors is a set of patches to better optimize cache flushing...

How to Add, Edit, or Remove Metadata in Media Files

Tecmint - Mon, 03/03/2025 - 14:00
The post How to Add, Edit, or Remove Metadata in Media Files first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

FFmpeg is a powerful command-line tool used for handling multimedia files, including editing metadata, which contains essential information such as

The post How to Add, Edit, or Remove Metadata in Media Files first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

Linux 6.14-rc5 Released: "Nothing Strange Stands Out"

Phoronix - Mon, 03/03/2025 - 04:00
Linus Torvalds just released the Linux 6.14-rc5 kernel as the Linux 6.14 stable kernel approaches toward release later in March...

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