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      Linux Landing Kernel Workaround For AMD TLBI Erratum #1718

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13:20

    AMD TLBI Erratum #1718 was worked around in CPU microcode for addressing a defect in certain Zen CPUs where the Translation Lookaside Buffer Invalidate Instruction use could lead to to stale translation entries. But for those on affected AMD CPUs and not running the updated microcode, a kernel workaround is being introduced with today's Linux 7.3-rc7 kernel and to be back-ported to prior kernel versions...
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      Microsoft Contributes Para-Virtualized IOMMU Hyper-V Driver For Linux

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12:00

    Microsoft is contributing a new kernel driver for the upcoming Linux 7.4 cycle. Queued up into the IOMMU subsystem's "-next" branch is a new para-virtualized IOMMU driver for benefiting Linux guest VMs running on Microsoft's Hyper-V virtualization platform...
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      Auto Vectorizing The RISC-V Linux Kernel Shows Promising Results

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:18

    The Linux kernel build for RISC-V doesn't currently make use of the CPU ISA's Vector extension. but leveraging it with compiler auto vectorization is showing the ability to provide nice performance results for enhancing RISC-V Linux performance...
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      Drgn 0.3 Released For This "Natural" Programmable Debugger From Meta

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:07

    Drgn is the open-source project out of Meta developing a very versatile debugger with the intent being a debugger focused on programmability with it striving to "make scripting as natural as possible so that debugging feels like coding." Drgn 0.3 released this weekend with the latest round of improvements...
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      Corsair Novablade Pro & 8BitDo Pro 2 Controllers To Be Supported With Linux 7.3-rc7

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9:58

    Sent out today as part of this week's input subsystem fixes are device ID additions to the XPad driver for enabling two more gaming controllers to work nicely under Linux...
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      Rolling Release Distros Superior To LTS Distros In The Patch-Heavy GenAI Era?

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    As some interesting food for thought and weekend forum discussions, this week at the Linux Plumbers Conference in Prague, Qualcomm engineer Khem Raj questioned the relevance of Linux Long Term Support (LTS) distributions in the era of generative AI with the constantly heavy patch flow and bug reports. Khem Raj argued the benefits of rolling release distributions in the GenAI era and the benefits it provides staying up-to-date with mainline...
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      Many Laptop & Gaming Handheld Support Improvements Coming For Linux 7.4

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    Many x86 platform driver improvements have been queuing ahead of the upcoming Linux 7.4 merge window to offer a variety of laptop and gaming handheld device improvements with this next kernel version...
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      KNOD Progressing For Linux In-Kernel GPU Offloading For Network Packet Processing

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    A while back we covered KNOD as an experimental solution for in-kernel network offloading to AMD GPUs. The open-source KNOD project allows leveraging GPUs to handle packet processing in a very performant and energy efficient manner without needing any specialized hardware. KNOD has continued and a development update was shared this week at the Linux Plumbers Conference in Prague...
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      Linux Networking Diverts 50+ Fixes To Next Kernel, Still Bombarded With AI Fueled Churn

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    Ahead of the Linux 7.3-rc7 kernel due for release on Sunday, this week's batch of networking fixes were submitted and merged. The vast networking subsystem of wired and wireless drivers plus the various other networking features continues to see a lot of activity due to AI-driven bug reports and patches...