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      Dirty Frag Vulnerability Made Public Early: Root Privilege On All Distributions

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 0:08

    One week after the Copy Fail vulnerability, a new Linux local privilege escalation bug has been made public. This time around there are no patches or CVEs yet for this "Dirty Frag" vulnerability as the embargo was broken early and thus the security researcher went ahead and published earlier than anticipated...
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      AMD K5 CPUs The Latest To Be Retired With Linux's Aging & Stagnate Hardware Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10 hours ago

    Following Linux 7.1 beginning to phase out i486 CPU support and in turn drivers like those for the old AMD Elan SoCs now being removed, for Linux 7.2 the processor support removal is going further to now include some i586 and i686 class processors...
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      Linux 7.2 To Support Realtek RTL8159 10GbE USB Ethernet

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16 hours ago

    The Realtek RTL8159 has been appearing in some 10G-rated USB network adapters at online retailers, some for less than $100 USD. But currently the RTL8159 is only supported by Realtek's out-of-tree Linux kernel driver, but fortunately there will be mainline support coming with the Linux 7.2 kernel this summer...
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      AMD RadeonSI Code Reorganized To Support Multimedia-Only Driver Builds

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16 hours ago

    Merged today to Mesa 26.2-devel was a reorganization of the AMD RadeonSI Gallium3D driver code to better separate the graphics and multimedia acceleration code from the rest of the driver...
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      Flattened Image Tree 1.0 Specification For Embedded Linux Systems

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 hours ago

    The Flattened Image Tree "FIT" 1.0 specification was recently finalized for this container format used by U-Boot on embedded systems for providing various boot components like DTBs, the Linux kernel image, and more into a single file...
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      AMD Instinct MI350P: PCIe Add-In Card For High Performance Open-Source AI/Compute

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 hours ago

    While there is the AMD Instinct MI400 series coming this year, today AMD announced an interesting and arguably overdue offering for the Instinct MI350 series: the MI350P. The AMD Instinct MI350P is a PCIe add-in-card to add Instinct MI350 compute capabilities to existing PCIe 5.0 air-cooled servers as an alternative to the Open Accelerator Module (OAM) currently used by the Instinct MI350 series.
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      Linux Drivers For The AMD Elan SoCs From The 1990s On Track For Retirement

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 hours ago

    Merged for the current Linux 7.1 cycle was beginning to phase out the Intel 486 processor support from the mainline kernel moving forward. That initial step with Linux 7.1 was dropping the various Kconfig options to allow compiling Linux kernel builds for targeting various i486 platforms. As part of that, the AMD Elan SoC configuration patches were dropped. The next step is proceeding on the AMD Elan side with beginning to remove the actual driver code...
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      KDE Plasma 6.7 To Provide A Much Better Experience For CPU-Based Rendering

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21 hours ago

    KDE developer Xaver Hugl has whipped up another nice improvement for the upcoming Plasma 6.7 desktop release. Due to QtWidgets still relying on CPU-based rendering and finding the performance subpar with Wayland shared memory "wl_shm" usage, Xaver has leveraged UDMABUF for avoiding excess buffer copies to provide a much more fluid experience when dealing with CPU-based rendering / shared memory usage on KDE under Wayland...
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      New GCC Back-End Proposed For WebAssembly

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21 hours ago

    When it comes to compiling C/C++ code to WebAssembly (WASM), LLVM/Clang and other LLVM-based tooling has dominated the space. Nearly a decade ago was a proposal for a GCC WebAssembly back-end that ultimately never ended up being merged while now there is a new proposal for a WebAssembly back-end for the GNU toolchain...