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Ubuntu flash-kernel Package Looks To Drop Support For Old ARM Hardware

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 8 December, 2024

The flash-kernel package is used for putting the Linux kernel image and initramfs in the boot location for embedded devices that aren't able to boot directly from /boot. The flash-kernel package is particularly important for older ARM hardware while now Ubuntu maintainers are looking at dropping patches they currently carry for a number of aging ARM platforms...

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Linux 6.13-rc2 To Workaround Buggy Intel Lunar Lake Leading To Responsiveness Issues

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 8 December, 2024

Sent out this morning were the "x86/urgent" updates ahead of Linux 6.13-rc2 due out later today. There are x86 fixes for both Intel and AMD processors this week. Most notable though is fixing some buggy Intel Core Ultra "Lunar Lake" behavior that could lead to responsiveness/delay issues due to the MONITOR implementation being buggy/broken...

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Manjaro 24.2 Released With GNOME 47 Updates, Powered By Linux 6.12 LTS

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 8 December, 2024

Manjaro 24.2 "Yonada" is out today as the newest version of this popular desktop focused Linux distribution built atop Arch Linux...

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Mold 2.35 Released With Big Endian ARM64 Support

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 8 December, 2024

Rui Ueyama announced the release today of Mold 2.35 as the latest iteration of this high speed linker alternative to the linkers available from the GCC and LLVM toolchain projects...

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More Kernel Bitrot: Old & Busted UltraSPARC T2 "Niagara 2" SPU Driver Slated For Removal

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 7 December, 2024

Following 107k lines of old driver code within the staging area of the kernel removed for Linux 6.13, over in the crypto space they are looking at some cleaning as well with plans raised to remove the Stream Processing Unit (SPU) driver for the old Sun Niagara 2, the Sun UltraSPARC T2 and this SPU was also found in the UltraSPARC T3 as well...

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OpenWrt Affected By Security Issue That Could Have Led To Compromised Build Artifacts

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 7 December, 2024

A security issue was reported to the OpenWrt project this week around their Attendedsysupgrade Server (ASU) instances that could have led to compromised firmware images being served...

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UMD Direct Submission "Proof Of Concept" For The Intel Xe Linux Driver

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 7 December, 2024

One of the interesting Intel Xe Linux kernel graphics driver patches that was volleyed for discussion last month is working on user-mode driver (UMD) direct submission support for allowing work to be directly submitted from user-space to the GPU hardware and avoiding some of the overhead of the kernel driver interactions...

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AMD Hardware Feedback Interface "HFI" Patches Updated For The Linux Kernel

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 7 December, 2024

While there are many great new features in Linux 6.13 like the AMD 3D V-Cache Optimizer driver, one of the features that wasn't buttoned up in time for this current kernel cycle were the patches implementing the AMD Hardware Feedback Interface (HFI). But that work remains ongoing and last week brought the seventh iteration of the patches...

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Microsoft's Azure Linux 3.0 Adds 64K Kernel Option, NFTables & Intel E800 Networking

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 7 December, 2024

Microsoft engineers rounded out their work week by releasing Azure Linux 3.0.20241203 on Friday evening as the newest monthly installment for their in-house Linux distribution...