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      HFI BIOS Aims To Provide A POST-Like Power On Screen & BIOS Setup Utility For RISC-V

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:50

    The Harmonic Firmware Initiative "HFI" is trying to provide a generic, standardized power-on firmware experience for RISC-V boards. Akin to the x86 world with having immediate graphics card initialization to provide a display while the system is booting and also having a BIOS setup utility for system configuration, HFI is trying to do the same for the RISC-V world...
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      Linux 7.2-rc3 Bringing Fixes For The SEGA Dreamcast Drivers In 2026

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:31

    It wasn't on my bingo card for the week but merged to Git ahead of today's Linux 7.2-rc3 kernel release are a number of fixes for the SEGA Dreamcast drivers...
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      Realtek RTL8723BS WiFi Linux Driver Hardened Against Malicious WiFi Access Points

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:15

    The staging driver fixes that were sent out this week ahead of the Linux 7.2-rc3 release is predominantly made up of hardening the Realtek RTL8723BS WiFi driver. In particular, a number of fixes for addressing out-of-bounds behavior when connecting to "bad" WiFi hosts...
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      Debian 13.6 Released To Ship All The Latest Security Fixes, Reverts GeoIP Database

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    Debian 13.6 is out today as the newest point release of Debian Trixie to ship the latest security fixes and other maintenance updates...
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      Linux 7.3-rc3 Bringing Display Detection Improvement To Help Some Multi-GPU Systems

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    Sent out today was this week's round of x86 (x86_64) fixes ahead of the Linux 7.3-rc3 kernel test candidate due out on Sunday...
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      LLVM Merges x86 LFI "Lightweight Fault Isolation" Target For In-Process Sandboxing

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    Stanford researchers have been developing Lightweight Fault Isolation "LFI" compiler passes and targets for LLVM as a means of efficient, native code sandboxing. The AArch64 LFI target was previously upstreamed while this week the x86/x86_64 LFI target was also upstreamed for this means of in-process sandboxing...
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      KDE Developers Continue Landing More Features For Plasma 6.8

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    KDE developers continue to be very busy this summer landing more features for the upcoming Plasma 6.8 desktop...
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      Mesa's Rusticl Now Enables Arm Mali Panfrost Driver Support By Default

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    A change upstreamed to Mesa by an Arm engineer now enables the Panfrost Gallium3D driver for Arm Mali graphics to work with the Rusticl driver by default...
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      Wine 11.13 Better Supports Input Pointers, Improved Keyboard Scancode Mapping For X11

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    Wine 11.13 is out today as the newest bi-weekly development release for this open-source software enabling support for running Windows games and applications on Linux...