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ASUS ROG CROSSHAIR X670E Hero Sensor Monitoring To Come With Linux 6.5

Phoronix - Tue, 05/09/2023 - 20:49
Sadly missing out on the Linux 6.4 kernel merge window by a few days is support for sensor monitoring with the ASUS ROG CROSSHAIR X670E Hero motherboard...

Intel's Experimental Xe Driver For Linux Lacking HuC Media Support For DG2/Alchenist

Phoronix - Tue, 05/09/2023 - 19:58
While Intel's in-development Xe kernel graphics driver is focused on supporting Tigerlake/Gen12 graphics and newer integrated/discrete graphics with this modern open-source driver with many design improvements over the aging i915 kernel driver, there looks to be one feature that as currently positioned will be missing for DG2/Alchemist: HuC support for helping with media offloading...

PipeWire Audio Backend Comes To QEMU

Phoronix - Tue, 05/09/2023 - 19:40
Adding to the list of features coming with QEMU 8.1 is now having a native PipeWire audio back-end...

Linux Patches Updated For Parallel CPU Bring-Up

Phoronix - Tue, 05/09/2023 - 18:17
While missing out on the recently-closed Linux 6.4 merge window, one of the patch series seeing a lot of activity in recent weeks/months has been around parallel CPU bring-up in order to speed-up the Linux kernel boot process for today's high-end desktops and many-core servers...

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