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Google News - Thu, 11/16/2023 - 23:45
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AMD Linux Graphics Driver Preparing For Enabling New LSDMA Ring Mode

Phoronix - Thu, 11/16/2023 - 23:21
Going back to May 2022, AMD Linux graphics driver engineers were working on AMDGPU driver patches to enable a new Light System DMA "LSDMA" IP block. Since then we haven't heard much about LSDMA until some new patches surfaced yesterday for optionally enabling the LSDMA ring mode for the AMDGPU kernel driver...

Intel QATlib 23.11 Brings New Crypto Support

Phoronix - Thu, 11/16/2023 - 23:04
Intel has rolled out a new quarterly update to QATlib, its QuickAssist Technology library for Linux systems to enjoy hardware acceleration of various crypto and compression algorithms on QAT Gen 4 hardware...

Ubuntu 23.10 Is Maxing Out Zstd Compression For Its Kernel Build

Phoronix - Thu, 11/16/2023 - 22:55
Dimitri John Ledkov of the Ubuntu kernel team has written about some of the improvements made for the default kernel build on Ubuntu 23.10. Ubuntu's Linux kernel build is now using much less disk space, lower RAM use, and much faster initrd generation...

Mesa 23.3-rc4 Released With More Fixes

Phoronix - Thu, 11/16/2023 - 19:54
Mesa 23.3 is gearing up for release in a week or two while out now is Mesa 23.3-rc4 for the latest weekly release candidate to this collection of open-source graphics drivers...

Microsoft Adds Enterprise Security Features To WSL

Phoronix - Thu, 11/16/2023 - 19:42
With Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) continuing to prove popular mot only for end-users and independent developers but within organizations as well for having easy access to a Linux environment from the confines of Windows 11, Microsoft has added new enterprise-focused security options for WSL...

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