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Bcachefs Rolls Out Metadata Version Reconcile "rebalance_v2" Feature

Phoronix - Fri, 11/14/2025 - 02:06
For those making use of the out-of-tree Bcachefs file-system driver, rolling out to the snapshot/nightly testing channel is the long-in-development "rebalance_v2" functionality now known as the "bcachefs_metadata_version_reconcile" feature...

Possible Setback For Linux x86_64 Laptops: Prominent Developer Joins Qualcomm

Phoronix - Fri, 11/14/2025 - 00:51
Back in early September we reported on a Linux hardware enablement leader planning to leave Red Hat. Hans de Goede has been a longtime contributor to improving Intel/AMD Linux desktop/laptop hardware support and in fact an x86 platform drivers subsystem maintainer. We now found out where this lead Linux x86 driver developer ended up: Qualcomm...

The Incredible Evolution Of AMD EPYC HPC Performance Shown In The Azure Cloud

Phoronix - Thu, 11/13/2025 - 23:44
Last week the Microsoft Azure HBv5 instances reached general availability as powered by the custom EPYC 9V64H CPUs with HBM3 memory. These very interesting EPYC processors for memory bandwidth intensive workloads were announced last year while have finally reached GA with jaw-dropping results for software able to take advantage of the 6.7 TB/s memory bandwidth thanks to the HBM memory. The Azure HBv5 benchmarks last week showed how they compare to prior generation HBv4 instances while this article is taking things further and putting the performance into perspective against the older HBv2 and HBv3 instances.

Linux Looks To Remove SHA1 Support For Signing Kernel Modules

Phoronix - Thu, 11/13/2025 - 22:40
Patches posted to the Linux kernel mailing list this week are seeking to remove SHA1 support for signing of kernel modules. This is part of the larger effort in the industry for moving away from SHA1 given its vulnerabilities to hash collisions and superior hashing algorithms being available...

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