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Bcachefs Hopes To Remove "EXPERIMENTAL" Flag In The Next Year

Phoronix - Sun, 09/22/2024 - 18:30
Bcachefs lead developer Kent Overstreet has submitted all of the Bcachefs file-system feature patches for the Linux 6.12 kernel merge window. In his pull request he also lays out his ambitions to remove the "EXPERIMENTAL" flag from Bcachefs within the next year...

Native PCIe Enclosure Management Submitted For Linux 6.12

Phoronix - Sun, 09/22/2024 - 18:08
The PCI changes for the in-development Linux 6.12 kernel add support for Native PCIe Enclosure Management "NPEM" as a code contribution by Intel for implementing the PCIe spec to standardize storage LEDs...

Updated DeviceTree Gets Microsoft Windows Dev Kit 2023 Booting Linux

Phoronix - Sun, 09/22/2024 - 17:57
Microsoft's Windows Dev Kit 2023 also known as "Project Volterra" was an early effor to improve the Windows on ARM support by developers via having a nice small form factor ARM PC to run Windows 11. With pending DeviceTree patches there would be mainline support for the Windows Dev Kit 2023 under Linux...

Updated XZ Code Lands In Linux 6.12

Phoronix - Sun, 09/22/2024 - 12:00
The kernel patches collected by Andrew Morton were upstreamed today for the Linux 6.12 kernel. Among those changes are pulling in the updated XZ Embedded code...

Sched_ext Merged For Linux 6.12 - Scheduling Policies As BPF Programs

Phoronix - Sun, 09/22/2024 - 01:48
Linux 6.12 is shaping up to be a heck of a kernel update! Following real-time "PREEMPT_RT" going mainline after twenty years and many other kernel features merged this week, Linus Torvalds just pulled in the much anticipated sched_ext code!..

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