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      Linux Networking Continues Being Bombarded With AI Patches

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19:07

    While the Linux WiFi/wireless maintainer just announced taking a stand against AI/LLM generated slop patches with a new "three second review" rule, the broader Linux networking subsystem continues to be bombarded with AI-generated patches...
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      IceWM 4.1 Window Manager Brings Bug Fixes

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18:54

    As the first new release since IceWM 4.0 released back on New Year's Day for this X11 window manager, IceWM 4.1 is now available...
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      Linux Patched For Safe RET Interrupt Vulnerability

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16:14

    Made public minutes ago is the Safe RET Interrupt Vulnerability which is now patched in the newest Linux kernel Git code. The Safe RET Interrupt Vulnerability stems from improper handling within Linux's Speculative Return Stack Overflow (SRSO) mitigation affecting AMD Zen 1 through Zen 4 processors...
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      Apple NVMe Linux Driver Sees Fixes After Being Bitten By New Firmware

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16:00

    A set of patches providing fixes for the Apple Silicon NVMe driver for the Linux kernel were sent out today due to new issues cropping up when running newer Apple firmware. Firmware shipped by macOS 15+ is causing issues with the current Apple NVMe open-source Linux driver developed by the Asahi Linux crew...
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      The Performance Benefits To Upgrading Mesa With Intel Arc B390 On Ubuntu Linux

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14:44

    If you are an early customer of the Framework Laptop 13 Pro or other Intel Core Ultra Series 3 Panther Lake laptop and using Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, there can be real benefit from upgrading your Mesa stack for the newer Iris Gallium3D and ANV Vulkan drivers. In this article are some benchmarks of the Framework Laptop 13 Pro with Core Ultra X9 388H with Arc B390 Xe3 integrated graphics for looking at the performance impact of using Mesa Git on Ubuntu Linux.
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      Linux Accidentally Left Legacy I/O & Memory Handlers Open In Kernel Lockdown Mode

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13:50

    For nearly the past decade has been the kernel lockdown mode for tightening up kernel access from user-space such as when UEFI Secure Boot is enabled. The kernel lockdown mode restricts PCI BAR access, no writing to /dev/mem, and other restrictions so user-space can't can't modify the running kernel or access sensitive kernel memory. An oversight has allowed legacy I/O and memory interfaces via sysfs to remain open in lockdown mode, but a fix is on the way...
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      Linux Wireless Maintainer Takes Firm Stance Against AI/LLM Generated Slop Patches

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12:22

    In addition to the Linux kernel staging area now rejecting AI/LLM-generated patches except for real security fixes, the Linux wireless networking code is also seeing some shifts around how it will deal with AI/LLM generated patches...
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      Page Alloc Hogger Lets You Better Stress Memory Behavior On Linux For Testing/Debugging

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:28

    A new kernel feature proposed by a Google engineer is Page Alloc Hogger to allow for fine control over where memory pages are allocated in order to more easily reproduce low-memory conditions, make it simpler to exert memory pressure, and enable other stressful memory conditions for testing/debugging how Linux copes...
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      AMD GFX1171 Support Merged For Mesa 26.3

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:19

    Earlier this year we began seeing patches for AMD GFX1170 graphics IP labeled as "RDNA 4m" and that was then completed with also adding GFX1171 and GFX1172 as additional targets for the AMDGPU LLVM compiler back-end and AMDGPU kernel driver. Merged today for Mesa 26.3 is now adding the GFX1171 target to Mesa 26.3 for the RADV and RadeonSI drivers...