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Debian General Resolution Hopes To Move Useful "tag2upload" Forward

Phoronix - Fri, 07/05/2024 - 08:32
A Debian General Resolution was called following a lengthy and contentious period among Debian stakeholders on moving forward tag2upload, a system that lets Debian developers and maintainers more easily carry out source-only uploads by using a signed Git tag...

Linux Looking To Make 5-Level Paging Support Unconditional For x86_64 Kernel Builds

Phoronix - Fri, 07/05/2024 - 03:48
It's been nearly one decade since Intel began working on 5-level paging support for the Linux kernel to allow for greater virtual and physical address space with expanding memory sizes. The 5-level paging kernel-side bits were upstreamed back in Linux 4.12 in 2017 and enabled by default since 2019 with Linux 5.5. Intel CPUs for a while (since Ice Lake) have supported 5-level paging and AMD CPUs too since Zen 4. The Linux kernel may move to unconditionally enabling 5-level paging support for x86_64 kernel builds...

AMD Appears To Be Aiming For Good Radeon RDNA4 GPU Support In Linux 6.11

Phoronix - Thu, 07/04/2024 - 21:07
While Linux 6.10-rc7 is due out this weekend and it's usually around the -rc6 timeframe when is the effective new material cut-off to DRM-Next of new graphics/display driver code aiming for the next kernel cycle, AMD is working to squeeze a bit more in for the upcoming Linux 6.11 cycle...

Linux Kernel Patches Posted For The Radxa ROCK 5 ITX Board

Phoronix - Thu, 07/04/2024 - 20:25
Patches have been posted for enabling the ROCK 5 ITX board for working with the mainline Linux kernel...

FEX 2407 Emulator For x86_64 Binaries On ARM Now Handles AVX/AVX2

Phoronix - Thu, 07/04/2024 - 18:41
This month's FEX 2407 release as the open-source emulator for running x86_64 binaries on AArch64 (64-bit ARM) is a big one with now handling AVX/AVX2...

OpenMandriva ROME 24.07 RC Switches To KDE Plasma 6, Packages Proton

Phoronix - Thu, 07/04/2024 - 18:13
The OpenMandriva ROME 24.07 RC is available for testing over the US holiday weekend or just summer downtime...

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