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Linux 6.8-rc1 Released Following Torvalds' Bout With Nasty Weather

Phoronix - Mon, 01/22/2024 - 06:50
While Linux creator Linus Torvalds lost Internet and electricity amid winter storms last weekend and was without them for most of this week, he's still managed to deliver an on-time Linux 6.8-rc1 release following the two week merge window...

Linux 6.8 Crypto Provides Intel IAA Compression Accelerator Driver, QAT 420xx Hardware

Phoronix - Mon, 01/22/2024 - 03:54
When it comes to the Linux kernel's "crypto" subsystem for various cryptographic and compression algorithms and various hardware drivers, the new additions for Linux 6.8 are particularly interesting on the Intel side...

StarFive RISC-V SoC's Camera Subsystem Driver Added To Linux 6.8

Phoronix - Mon, 01/22/2024 - 03:43
Sent in last week were all of the media driver updates for Linux 6.8. Arguably most notable is the introduction of the StarFive Camera Subsystem driver as a new image sensor processor driver initially being treated as a staging driver...

BFQ I/O Scheduler For Linux Sees Big Scalability Improvement

Phoronix - Sun, 01/21/2024 - 22:33
Following the work on enhancing the scalability of the MQ-Deadline I/O scheduler, Linux storage expert Jens Axboe has applied similar scalability improvements to the BFQ I/O scheduler...

AWS Nitro Secure Module Driver Headlines char/misc Changes For Linux 6.8

Phoronix - Sun, 01/21/2024 - 21:43
Along with the USB/Thunderbolt changes for Linux 6.8, Greg Kroah-Hartman also submitted the char/misc changes during the back-half of the week for this new kernel version...

Linux 6.8 Brings Intel Lunar Lake Thunderbolt, New Qualcomm USB AltMode Mux Driver

Phoronix - Sun, 01/21/2024 - 21:34
Merged this week were the USB and Thunderbolt driver changes for the nearly-closed Linux 6.8 merge window...

The AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7980X Boasts Some Big AI Wins & More With Linux 6.7

Phoronix - Sun, 01/21/2024 - 10:42
For those on a new AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7000 series system at least, the recently released Linux 6.7 stable kernel is looking mighty good at least for the Threadripper 7980X when testing on the newly-launched System76 Thelio Major...

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