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Microsoft Announces Open-Source Hyperlight For Embedded VMM Within Linux/Windows Apps

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11 November, 2024

Microsoft last month announced the open-source Rust-written OpenHCL for running confidential Intel TDX and AMD SEV-SNP virtual machines. Today Microsoft is announcing another interesting open-source, Rust-based project in the virtualization space: Hyperlight. Microsoft's Hyperlight project is an embed-friendly, lightweight VMM for use within Linux and Windows applications...

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Basic Support For Many Pre-M1 Apple Devices Coming To Linux 6.13

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11 November, 2024

While not as exciting as if it were Apple M3/M4 device support hitting the upstream mainline Linux kernel, but for those with some older Apple (pre-M1) devices around, support for a number of older SoCs and boards is set to arrive with the upcoming Linux 6.13 kernel...

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Intel Adapting Energy Aware Scheduling "EAS" To P-State Driver For Lunar Lake

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11 November, 2024

As another effort for boosting the energy efficiency and behavior of Intel Core platforms with a mix of energy efficient "E" and performance "P" cores, a set of patches were posted Friday night for adapting Energy Aware Scheduling (EAS) to the Intel P-State CPU frequency scaling driver with a focus on providing better energy efficient performance initially for Lunar Lake SoCs...

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Linux 6.13 Rust Support Allowing For In-Place Modules

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11 November, 2024

Set to be merged during the upcoming Linux 6.13 merge window is support with the Rust programming language infrastructure for allowing in-place kernel modules...

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Intel Diamond Rapids "-march=diamondrapids" Merged Into GCC 15

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11 November, 2024

The Intel Diamond Rapids target has been merged in time for the upcoming GCC 15 compiler release to allow for "-march=diamondrapids" targeting for leveraging the array of new CPU ISA additions found with these next-gen Xeon processors...

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Servo Browser Engine Seeing Many Performance Optimizations & SubtleCrypto API

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11 November, 2024

The Rust-written Servo browser web layout engine project is out with its October 2024 status update that provides insight to their development activities the past several weeks...

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PHPStan 2.0 Released For Leading PHP Static Analyzer

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11 November, 2024

PHPStan 2.0 is out today as what is the best open-source static analyzer for the PHP programming language...

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Linux 6.12-rc7 Released: Linux 6.12 Stable On Track For Release Next Sunday

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10 November, 2024

Linus Torvalds just christened the Linux 6.12-rc7 kernel today for what will hopefully be the last release candidate before declaring Linux 6.12 stable next week Sunday...

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Arch Linux Powered CachyOS Pulls In THP Shrinker & AMD Cache Optimizer

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10 November, 2024

The Arch Linux based CachyOS Linux distribution has issued its November 2025 media refresh. Notable this time are pulling a few performance-related patches into its kernel build...