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Linux 6.2-rc4 Released - "Bang In The Middle Of A Regular RC"

Phoronix - Mon, 01/16/2023 - 00:00
Due to Linus Torvalds traveling later in the day, he's released Linux 6.2-rc4 a half-day early as the latest weekly snapshot of Linux 6.2...

Removing Some Old Arm Drivers & Board/Machine Code To Lighten The Kernel By 154k Lines

Phoronix - Sun, 01/15/2023 - 20:28
The SoC tree's "for-next" branch has picked up a big set of patches that is set to lighten the kernel by 154k lines of code, documentation, and DeviceTree files in clearing out some old drivers and obsolete board/machine support...

Linux 6.3 To Support Making Use Of Intel's New LKGS Instruction (Part Of FRED)

Phoronix - Sun, 01/15/2023 - 19:42
As part of Intel's forthcoming Flexible Return and Event Delivery (FRED) specification is the new LKGS instruction for managing the state of the GS segment register in a more flexible manner. With Linux 6.3 the kernel will allow making use of the LKGS instruction where supported on future Intel CPUs...

Linux 6.3 Will Better Handle Missing AMD Radeon Firmware / Unsupported Hardware

Phoronix - Sun, 01/15/2023 - 19:28
Another batch of AMDGPU/AMDKFD feature code was submitted this week to DRM-Next as additional AMD Radeon kernel graphics driver changes slated for Linux 6.3...

Basic OpenGL ES Compute Shader Support Begins Working For The Apple GPU Linux Driver

Phoronix - Sun, 01/15/2023 - 19:09
The open-source developers working on developing the Rust-written Linux DRM kernel driver for Apple M1/M2 graphics as well as the Mesa AGX Gallium3D driver in user-space have now managed to successfully run a basic OpenGL ES 3.1 compute shader on the hardware with this open-source driver stack...

Cloud Hypervisor 29 Released With Better Live Migration, Combined MSHV+KVM Binaries

Phoronix - Sun, 01/15/2023 - 18:55
Cloud Hypervisor 29.0 has been released as the open-source virtualization hypervisor that was started by Intel but then began seeing support by the likes of Microsoft and Arm. Cloud Hypervisor was since spunoff to the Linux Foundation where it continues seeing more industry support by the likes of AMD and Ampere...

GNU Binutils 2.40 Released With AMD Zen 4 & Upcoming Intel Instructions, Zstd Support

Phoronix - Sun, 01/15/2023 - 03:26
Out today is GNU Binutils 2.40 as the latest feature update to this wide collection of key binary utilities found on Linux systems and other platforms...

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