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      "So Many AI-Fueled Fixes" Means No New ARM64 KVM Features For Linux 7.2

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13:55

    The KVM virtualization-related changes were merged a few days ago for the ongoing Linux 7.2 kernel merge window. While there are a number of features/improvements for AMD and Intel virtualization as well as the likes of s390 and RISC-V, there aren't any new features on ARM64. The lack of ARM64 feature work this cycle is being attributed to "so many AI-fueled fixes" swamping the ARM Linux developers...
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      One Line x86 Change To GCC Compiler Nets +12% Benchmark Win For Modern Intel/AMD CPUs

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:45

    A one line code change to the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) for its generic x86 tuning is benefiting modern Intel and AMD processors...
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      Linux 7.2 Protects Against Crafted Perf Data From Going Rogue

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:26

    With the help of Claude Opus 4.6, the Linux 7.2 kernel added protections to fend off specially crafted or corrupted perf data for the perf tool that could cause a number of issues for the running system...
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      QSOE v0.1 Released As A QNX-Inspired RISC-V OS

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:05

    QSOE 0.1 has made its debut as a QNX-inspired, dual kernel architecture open-source operating system just targeting RISC-V...
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      Linux 7.2 Ready With IMA and EVM Post-Quantum ML-DSA Signature Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9:55

    The integrity subsystem changes merged last week for the Linux 7.2 kernel include support now for IMA and EVM post-quantum ML-DSA signature support...
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      Linux sched_ext Source Files Restructured Following Complaint By Linus Torvalds

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 0:23

    Last week the main set of sched_ext changes were merged for Linux 7.2 that included continued work on sub-scheduler support. While Linus Torvalds didn't object to any of the features being worked on for this extensible scheduler framework that relies on user-space BPF programs, he was frustrated by the layout of the new C source files and remarked, "please don't do this disgusting thing...proper hierarchical filesystems have been available since 1965."..
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      COSMIC Epoch 1.1 Released With COSMIC-Monitor, Compositor Improvements

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 hours ago

    System76 today released COSMIC Epoch 1.1 as the newest feature release as well as being their first time bumping the minor version number since the December release of COSMIC 1.0...
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      BASIC09 Programming Language Front-End Developed For LLVM

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18 hours ago

    The 46-year-old BASIC09 programming language has new compiler support with a front-end having been developed for the LLVM compiler stack. BASIC09 was developed in 1980 for the Motorola 6809 CPU running with the OS-9 operating system. With this LLVM compiler front-end, you can write BASIC09 code for modern software and hardware...
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      Linux 7.2 Showing Some Unexpected & Nice Performance Gains On AMD EPYC Sorano

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21 hours ago

    While the Linux 7.2 merge window doesn't wrap up until this weekend as the feature cut-off for new material, I have already begun some early benchmarks of the code currently staged for this next version of the Linux kernel. Linux 7.2 already was looking quite exciting with cache aware scheduling and other exciting new features while an unexpected surprise in my early testing this week was seeing some local network/socket performance improvements...