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New CXL RAS Features Upstreamed For Linux 6.16

Phoronix - Wed, 06/04/2025 - 18:43
Linux kernel developers continue building out the support around the Compute Express Link (CXL) specification for benefiting modern high performance servers. With the in-development Linux 6.16 kernel there are more CXL features now in place...

Ubuntu Developers Discuss The Difficult Issue Of Splitting Up Firmware Packages

Phoronix - Wed, 06/04/2025 - 18:28
Ubuntu developers have recently started a discussion over possibly splitting up the "linux-firmware" package into multiple sub-packages given the growing size of all the different firmware binaries needed to support the diverse range of hardware supported by the Linux kernel. It's nice in theory for helping to reduce the install footprint of Ubuntu Linux but in practice will be difficult to pull off without potentially risking the out-of-the-box hardware support on Ubuntu Linux...

Sched_Ext Boasts CPU Selection Improvements In Linux 6.16

Phoronix - Wed, 06/04/2025 - 18:10
One of the niftiest kernel innovations to be upstreamed into Linux over the past year was sched_ext for extensible scheduler behavior in allowing kernel schedulers to be implemented via BPG programs. Sched_ext can allow for interesting scheduler improvements with a variety of use-cases and showed much potential even before being upstreamed. The work on sched_ext isn't yet over though and yet more improvements landed for Linux 6.16...

Hardware Monitoring For More ASUS Motherboards & Additional Zen 5 CPUs In Linux 6.16

Phoronix - Wed, 06/04/2025 - 17:52
The numerous hardware monitoring "HWMON" subsystem updates were merged to Linux 6.16 on Tuesday for further enhancing the desktop hardware reporting capabilities and more with this next kernel release...

SquashFS Tools 4.7 Released: "20% To More Than Ten Times Faster"

Phoronix - Wed, 06/04/2025 - 08:20
SquashFS-Tools 4.7 is out today as a big feature update to the user-space utilities for creating/modifying/extracting SquashFS read-only file-system images. SquashFS 4.7 delivers some big performance improvements and other nice enhancements...

Linux 6.16 Merges Support For The Apple Magic Mouse 2 USB-C

Phoronix - Wed, 06/04/2025 - 03:53
While Linux 5.13 back in 2021 added support for the Apple Magic Mouse 2, only now with the Linux 6.16 kernel is there support arriving for the USB-C version of the Apple Magic Mouse 2 that debuted last year...

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