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Linux Adding Detection For BSD's Bhyve Hypervisor To Support 255+ vCPUs

Phoronix - Tue, 08/19/2025 - 19:52
Bhyve is the BSD hypervisor / virtual machine manager (VMM) developed by FreeBSD that supports a range of operating systems and across CPU vendors. With time Bhyve has also been ported to other BSDs and even Illumos and macOS. The Linux kernel is now in the process of adding guest detection for the Bhyve hypervisor in order to support VMs with 255+ vCPUs...

Apple SoC DT Updates Already Begin Lining Up For Linux 6.18

Phoronix - Tue, 08/19/2025 - 18:21
While the Linux v6.17 merge window only wrapped up earlier this month, Apple Silicon DeviceTree "DT" updates have already begun queuing for the Linux 6.18 merge window that will happen in October...

Intel Upstreams XeVM Into LLVM

Phoronix - Tue, 08/19/2025 - 18:07
Intel's newest contribution to the upstream LLVM compiler stack is XeVM as their Multi-Level Intermediate Representation "MLIR" dialect catering to modern Intel graphics processors...

Kernel Stack Watch Proposed As New Linux Debugging Tool

Phoronix - Tue, 08/19/2025 - 17:55
Patches were posted on Monday for Kernel Stack Watch, a new lightweight debugging tool for detecting kernel stack corruption in real-time on Linux...

New Linux Patches Allow Manipulating Out-Of-Memory Behavior Using BPF

Phoronix - Tue, 08/19/2025 - 08:47
Google engineer Roman Gushchin has proposed the ability for the Linux kernel to customize the out-of-memory "OOM" behavior using BPF programs...

More than meets the eye: Behind the scenes of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10

Red Hat News - Tue, 08/19/2025 - 08:00
This series takes a look at the people and planning that went into building and releasing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10. From the earliest conceptual stages to the launch at Red Hat Summit 2025, we’ll hear firsthand accounts of how RHEL 10 came into being.At Red Hat Summit 2025, we announced the latest version of the world’s leading enterprise Linux platform: Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 10. This release was much more than a few minor enhancements or feature additions; RHEL 10 delivers AI-powered Linux management, post-quantum cryptography capabilities and containers as the native languag

AMD "GFX1250" To Double The Number Of User SGPRs

Phoronix - Tue, 08/19/2025 - 07:34
We still don't have much confirmed information on AMD's GFX1250 that has come to light in recent months due to being developed for their AMDGPU shader compiler back-end within LLVM. AMD GFX1250 surfaced in LLVM activity and the past few months has been seeing more additions made. A notable change committed today for LLVM is that the number of user Scalar General-Purpose Registers (SGPRs) has doubled...

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