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      Linux 7.3 Lands More Audio Workarounds For Laptops & Other Devices

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15:06

    Following last week's main set of sound subsystem updates for Linux 7.3 that brought a lot of new audio hardware support, a second round of sound updates were merged this weekend ahead of today's Linux 7.3-rc1 release...
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      The Challenges In Bringing AMD ROCm To FreeBSD

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14:38

    This summer an intern with the FreeBSD Foundation worked on porting AMD ROCm to FreeBSD. The internship is concluding while the FreeBSD ROCm code is almost to the stage of being able to perform simple vector addition workloads...
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      AMD Zen 6 Preparations, Ryzen AI Halo LED Driver & Many Laptop Changes For Linux 7.3

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13:39

    The x86 platform driver changes are now in place for the Linux 7.3 kernel with additions for upcoming AMD Zen 6 hardware, the RGB LED driver controls for the Ryzen AI Halo PC, and a lot of laptop support additions and improvements for a variety of devices from different hardware vendors. Plus some handheld gaming device updates too...
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      NVIDIA Vulkan Frame Rate Up-Conversion "FRUC" Merged To FFmpeg

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11:00

    Upstreamed to the FFmpeg multimedia driver code this weekend is support for Frame Rate Up-Conversion "FRUC" making use of the NVIDIA Vulkan Optical Flow extension...
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      The "KVM Chainsaw" Clean-Up Merged For Linux 7.3 Along With Other Fixes

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:41

    The Kernel-based Virtual Machine "KVM" changes have landed for the Linux 7.3 merge window that is wrapping up later today...
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      Linux 7.3 Introduces 8250_mxpcie Driver For Moxa PCIe Multi-Port Serial Boards

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:28

    The TTY/Serial code changes for Linux 7.3 were merged this week and include dropping the dated IPWireless driver while introducing the new 8250_mxpcie driver...
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      RTL8723BS Driver Continues Dominating The Staging Area Activity For Linux 7.3

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 0:33

    Upstreamed back in 2017 for Linux 4.12 was the RTL8723BS driver in the kernel's staging area. Nine years later it remains in staging and remains a frequent target for clean-ups and code improvements as it tries to work its way out...
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      FreeBSD 14.5-RC1 Released With Several Security Fixes

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 23 hours ago

    Ahead of FreeBSD 14.5-RELEASE hopefully debuting on 8 September, FreeBSD 14.5-RC1 is out today as the final scheduled development release...
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      Another x86 Advisory From Some Entity Other Than Intel Or AMD

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    Last October I highlighted an interesting post on the Linux kernel mailing list around an x86 corporate entity other than Intel or AMD that left mysterious intrigue. The developer that detailed those x86 opcode/CPUID/MSR allocations back in July then detailed 16-tile and 32-tile AMX implementations again for something outside the current scope of Intel/AMD processors. Today another message is being relayed from that "corporate entity other than Intel/AMD."..