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Intel Adapting Linux's LAM In Preparing For ChkTag

Phoronix - Tue, 03/03/2026 - 21:54
Last year AMD and Intel as part of the x86 Ecosystem Advisory Group announced ChkTag for x86 memory tagging across processors to better fight buffer overflows and use-after-free errors. In preparing for ChkTag with future processors, Intel has begun adapting their Linear Address Masking (LAM) support to more nicely jive with it...

Intel Preps A Lot Of Xe3 Code For Linux 7.1 Kernel

Phoronix - Tue, 03/03/2026 - 21:12
Intel yesterday sent out their first "drm-xe-next" pull request to DRM-Next of new Xe kernel graphics driver improvements they have readied for their eventual upstreaming into the Linux 7.1 kernel...

AMD Makes rocprof-trace-decoder Open-Source

Phoronix - Tue, 03/03/2026 - 19:13
AMD open-sourced the ROCprof Trace Decoder "rocprof-trace-decoder", a tool useful for developers targeting the AMD GPU compute stack...

ARCTIC Cooling Publishes ARCTIC Fan Controller Driver For Linux

Phoronix - Tue, 03/03/2026 - 19:03
A Linux driver has been published for the ARCTIC Fan Controller to be able to read fan speeds under Linux as well as setting the PWM fan speed for each of the ten fans supported by this controller. Making this driver all the more exciting is that ARCTIC Cooling is directly working on this driver rather than just being a community/third-party creation. Furthermore, ARCTIC Cooling is working on getting this driver to the upstream Linux kernel...

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