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Intel Prepares More Nova Lake Graphics/Display Enablement For Linux 7.3

Phoronix - Fri, 07/03/2026 - 19:30
On Thursday Intel sent out their first batch of Intel kernel graphics driver changes of new feature material targeting the Linux 7.3 kernel. This first batch of drm-intel-next for v7.3 continues to focus heavily on lining up Nova Lake's Xe3P integrated graphics/display support...

NVIDIA VR-NVL BMC Device Tree Being Upstreamed For OpenBMC Support

Phoronix - Fri, 07/03/2026 - 19:02
NVIDIA's latest Linux kernel mailing list patches are for providing the Device Tree for the baseboard management controller (BMC) of their Vera Rubin VR-NVL server platform. With the Linux kernel patches and also for U-Boot, it's part of the upstreaming effort for supporting the open-source OpenBMC software on their latest hardware...

Linux 7.2-rc2 BPF Code Being Hardened Against JIT Spraying Attacks

Phoronix - Fri, 07/03/2026 - 18:49
Some post-merge-window code changes merged overnight ahead of Linux 7.2-rc2 this weekend is hardening the kernel's BPF code against JIT spraying attacks...

Linux Preparing To Retire Its 32-bit MSR Interfaces

Phoronix - Fri, 07/03/2026 - 18:32
Currently measuring in at 32 patches, SUSE engineer Juergen Gross has been leading the effort to end the Linux kernel's usage of their 32-bit model specific register (MSR) interfaces so the more modern 64-bit interfaces can be exclusively used. This allows for better code unification and cleaning up the MSR code...

Install codebase-memory-mcp for Faster AI Coding

Tecmint - Fri, 07/03/2026 - 14:32
The post Install codebase-memory-mcp for Faster AI Coding first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

If your AI coding agent keeps reading the same files every time you ask a question, it’s wasting time and

The post Install codebase-memory-mcp for Faster AI Coding first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

ReactOS Implements First Windows NT6 System Call In Step Toward Vista Compatibility

Phoronix - Fri, 07/03/2026 - 08:22
The ReactOS project that is striving to be the "open-source Windows" with Windows driver and software binary compatibility hit another milestone today. ReactOS to date has primarily targeted Windows NT 5.2 as the architecture from Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 but with an eye toward Windows NT 6.0 for Windows Vista and later compatibility with software. ReactOS has now landed their first NT6 system call...

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