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Framework Computer Making Progress On Coreboot For Their Modern Intel-Powered Laptops

Phoronix - Mon, 06/15/2026 - 21:05
While we have seen Coreboot work-in-progress support for older Ryzen-powered Framework Laptops, it seems there is a recent uptick in development around supporting Coreboot on Framework Computer's modern Intel-powered wares...

Cache Aware Scheduling Merged For Linux 7.2 For Boosting Modern Intel & AMD CPUs

Phoronix - Mon, 06/15/2026 - 20:31
The scheduler updates were merged this morning for the Linux 7.2 kernel and it's exciting. Cache Aware Scheduling has finally been merged! This is a win for especially modern Intel and AMD processors with multiple last level caches (LLCs)...

Linux 7.2 Introducing The Rust Zerocopy Library To Eliminate More "Unsafe" Code

Phoronix - Mon, 06/15/2026 - 19:03
Miguel Ojeda already mailed in the many Rust code changes for the in-development Linux 7.2 kernel. This is quite a big Rust code with more than forty thousand new lines of Rust code in the kernel...

Linux 7.2 To Better Communicate File-System Casefolding For Helping Windows NFS & More

Phoronix - Mon, 06/15/2026 - 18:24
Newly-merged code for the in-development Linux 7.2 kernel will now expose the case-folding (case insensitive) behavior of local file-systems so that Linux file servers and others can properly report the actual behavior rather than guessing if case-folding is actually used/supported...

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