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Reverse Engineered MSI WMI Platform Driver Being Worked On For Linux

Phoronix - Tue, 04/23/2024 - 00:55
Submitted for code review this weekend was a new MSI WMI Platform driver that was developed via reverse engineering MSI laptops. Initially this MSI WMI Platform driver is just exposing fan speed sensors but ultimately can be more useful for other Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) features...

Kioxia KCD8XPUG1T92 CD8P-R & KCMYXVUG3T20 CM7-V PCIe 5.0 SSDs

Phoronix - Mon, 04/22/2024 - 23:20
While there is a growing number of PCIe 5.0 consumer NVMe SSDs available through Internet retailers, when it comes to PCIe 5.0 NVMe SSD data center / enterprise grade solid-state drives there aren't as many yet and even for announced ones they have been relatively in short supply. In preparing for some upcoming Ubuntu 24.04 LTS tests and ahead of next-gen servers arriving, I was recently searching for some new PCIe 5.0 data center solid state drives. Arriving so far are the Kioxia KCD8XPUG1T92 CD8P-R and Kioxia KCMYXVUG3T20 CM7-V PCIe 5 SSDs. Here are a few benchmarks of those drives for those curious about the performance.

Audacity 3.5 Brings Cloud Project Saving, Improved BSD Support

Phoronix - Mon, 04/22/2024 - 22:15
The Audacity open-source digital audio editor is out today with a big feature update in the form of Audacity 3.5...

Steam Deck Motion Sensors Being Worked On For Linux's HID-Steam Driver

Phoronix - Mon, 04/22/2024 - 22:04
A patch is undergoing work to add Steam Deck IMU support to the HID-Steam kernel driver for supporting the accelerometer and gyroscope sensors of the Steam Deck controller...

Intel Enabling Linux Driver Display Support For Upcoming "Battlemage" GPUs

Phoronix - Mon, 04/22/2024 - 19:05
Intel's open-source Linux graphics driver engineers have been busy working to enable the display support for the upcoming Battlemage graphics cards as the successor to DG2/Alchemist...

AMD: "Additional Parts Of The Radeon Stack To Be Open Sourced Throughout The Year"

Phoronix - Mon, 04/22/2024 - 18:40
After recently announcing they'd be working to get out Micro-Engine Scheduler (MES) firmware documentation and open-source code, AMD said they would be working to open-source more of their software stack and hardware documentation. AMD repeated those calls over the weekend...

AMD SEV-SNP Hypervisor Support Nears The Mainline Linux Kernel

Phoronix - Mon, 04/22/2024 - 18:32
AMD's upstreaming effort around Secure Encrypted Virtualization Secure Nested Paging (SEV-SNP) to the mainline Linux kernel appears to be nearly wrapped up with the latest hypervisor patches now at their fourteenth revision...

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