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      Rust For Linux 7.3 Begins Seeing Fixes To Prepare For Rust's GCC Backend

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13:21

    In addition to the POWER/PowerPC code adding Rust kernel support, the main set of Rust programming language updates for the Linux 7.3 kernel have now been submitted. Most notable are early fixes toward eventually allowing the experimental Rust GCC back-end to be used as an alternative to the official rustc compiler with LLVM code generation...
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      Linux 7.3 Corrects Faulty Behavior Of FAT File-System Driver For Filenames Too Fat

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12:53

    It's not too often that the Linux FAT driver for FAT12/FAT16/FAT32 format support receives updates worth mentioning. For Linux 7.3 there is one patch though and it's due to the driver until now lacking an upper-bounds check on the length of the filename, which could lead to some unexpected situations with extremely long filenames...
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      Fedora x86-64-v3 Optimized Packages Pushed Back To At Least Fedora 46

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:21

    There was a proposal under discussion the past few months on building x86-64-v3 packages for Fedora 45 while retaining x86-64-v1 packages. The hope was building the Fedora packages with x86-64-v3 where AVX/AVX2, FMA, BMI2, and other newer ISA features can be assumed in the name of better performance. Unfortunately, the x86-64-v3 plans are now delayed but may be reconsidered next year with Fedora 46...
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      Lenovo Lands New Watchdog Driver In Linux 7.3 For Their SE30G2 + SE60 Edge AI Computers

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:07

    When it comes to the watchdog driver changes for Linux 7.3, standing out is the new Lenovo driver for their upcoming ThinkEdge AI edge computing systems...
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      Intel Enables Buffer Compression For Better Gaming Performance With DXVK

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9:50

    Merged today to Mesa 26.3-devel is a nice performance boost for Intel graphics with Valve's Steam Play when using DXVK for Direct3D 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 over the Vulkan API. The open-source Intel ANV driver is seeing up to 5% better performance with DXVK...
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      XFS Lands FALLOC_FL_WRITE_ZEROES For Efficiency Improvement In Linux 7.3

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9:35

    The XFS file-system improvements have been merged for Linux 7.3. For end-users the only notable change for this file-system on the new kernel is adding support for FALLOC_FL_WRITE_ZEROES...
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      EFS & FreeVxFS File-Systems Get Booted While FailFS Merged For Linux 7.3

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 0:29

    Among the early pull requests merged today by Linus Torvalds for the Linux 7.3 kernel cycle were removal of some ancient file-systems while adding in a new pseudo file-system...
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      Linux 7.3 To Land Initial Code Improving vRAM Management, More Improvements Coming

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16 hours ago

    Earlier this year Natalie Vock of Valve's Linux graphics team laid out some patches for improving the Linux gaming experience for systems with limited vRAM. The kernel work for improving that video memory management is set to be introduced in the Linux 7.3 kernel. While that's a celebration on its own, Vock is pursuing more improvements still for bettering the Linux GPU driver video memory management behavior...
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      FFmpeg Lands H.265 Vulkan Encode Performance Optimizations

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18 hours ago

    The FFmpeg multimedia library can now enjoy faster H.265/HEVC video encoding with the Vulkan-powered encode path. With the optimizations merged today, the H.265 encode performance should be roughly at parity to the H.264 encode speed...