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Intel-Started Cloud Hypervisor Project Adds Experimental RISC-V Support

Phoronix - Mon, 03/31/2025 - 18:28
Cloud Hypervisor began as an open-source Intel software project more than a half-decade ago with an emphasis on security and cloud deployments while leveraging the Rust programming language. With time its scope has broadened a lot as has its industry adoption. With time it added ARM64 support and recruited AMD, Ampere Computing, Microsoft, and others as its supporters while being folded into the Linux Foundation. The latest expansion for the project is introducing experimental RISC-V 64-bit support...

Linux 6.15 Wires Up SoundWire Bulk Register Access

Phoronix - Mon, 03/31/2025 - 18:17
The in-development Linux 6.15 kernel is continuing to enhance its support for MIPI's SoundWire specification for small audio peripherals with this two-pin, low-complexity audio interface...

Many Rust Changes Submitted For Linux 6.15

Phoronix - Mon, 03/31/2025 - 08:06
All of the Rust programming language infrastructure updates for the Linux 6.15 kernel have now been submitted. In addition to a lot of technical Rust improvements for the Linux kernel, this cycle also marks the first time Rust Linux maintainer Miguel Ojeda has taken a pull request directly from another contributor as they prepare to work out sub-trees for the Rust ecosystem...

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