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Many KVM Updates Land In Linux 6.3

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 2 March, 2023

A lot of Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) updates were merged for the Linux 6.3 cycle to further enhance the open-source virtualization stack...

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New RISC-V/ARM SoC Power Management Drivers Arrive For Linux 6.3

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 2 March, 2023

Following last week's SoC and platform updates that included mainlining of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 support, new Qualcomm 5G RAN platform support, and many more Arm boards being enabled, this week saw the SoC driver updates now submitted...

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Steam On Linux Marketshare Percentage Dipped In February

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 2 March, 2023

Valve has just published the Steam Survey results for the month prior and it points to Steam on Linux as a percentage dropping as well as a similar pullback in the Steam Deck hardware usage...

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Linux 6.3 Adds Thunderbolt/USB4 DisplayPort Bandwidth Allocation Mode

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 March, 2023

Earlier this week Greg Kroah-Hartman submitted the USB/Thunderbolt subsystem updates for the ongoing Linux 6.3 kernel merge window...

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Intel Compute Runtime 22.53.25242.13 Released With OpenCL & Level Zero Enhancements

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 March, 2023

Following a three month lull, last week Intel got back to releasing Compute-Runtime and IGC compiler updates. They have been working to shift to a monthly release cadence while during this transition period they needed extra time as it also rolled out some compiler/runtime interface changes. Now back into their swing of things, for kicking off the new month they have the Compute Runtime 22.53.25242.13 release...

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Godot 4.0 Stable Released As Major Step Forward For Open-Source Game Engines

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 March, 2023

The Godot engine developers are starting off March with a bang... The much anticipated Godot 4.0 engine that has been in development for years has been released as stable!..

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Intel Updates Alder Lake P Scheduler Model For LLVM/Clang

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 March, 2023

An updated scheduler model for Intel Alder Lake P processors has been merged into the LLVM compiler after finding some differences compared to Intel's documentation/guidance...

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Linux's VGEM Kernel Driver Being Rewritten In Rust

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 March, 2023

In addition to the in-development Apple M1/M2 DRM kernel graphics/display driver being written in Rust, there is now a second graphics-related kernel driver seeing early work in Rust. The existing VGEM driver is being rewritten in the Rust programming language...

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Microsoft Increasing Linux Security On Hyper-V With VTL/VSM Support

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 March, 2023

Microsoft engineers continue to work heavily on enhancing the Linux support for Hyper-V considering that in the Azure public cloud at last report was more than 50% of their VMs running Linux. Microsoft has continued implementing more Hyper-V features within the Linux kernel and their latest is working on Virtual Trust Level (VTL) integration as part of Virtual Secure Mode (VSM) handling...