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Intel-Started Cloud Hypervisor Project Adds Experimental RISC-V Support

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 31 March

Cloud Hypervisor began as an open-source Intel software project more than a half-decade ago with an emphasis on security and cloud deployments while leveraging the Rust programming language. With time its scope has broadened a lot as has its industry adoption. With time it added ARM64 support and recruited AMD, Ampere Computing, Microsoft, and others as its supporters while being folded into the Linux Foundation. The latest expansion for the project is introducing experimental RISC-V 64-bit support...

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Linux 6.15 Wires Up SoundWire Bulk Register Access

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 31 March

The in-development Linux 6.15 kernel is continuing to enhance its support for MIPI's SoundWire specification for small audio peripherals with this two-pin, low-complexity audio interface...

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Many Rust Changes Submitted For Linux 6.15

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 31 March

All of the Rust programming language infrastructure updates for the Linux 6.15 kernel have now been submitted. In addition to a lot of technical Rust improvements for the Linux kernel, this cycle also marks the first time Rust Linux maintainer Miguel Ojeda has taken a pull request directly from another contributor as they prepare to work out sub-trees for the Rust ecosystem...

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GRUB Bootloader Received 73 Patches To Fix A Variety Of Recent Security Issues

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 25 March

The GRUB bootloader saw a set of 73 patches last month for addressing a variety of security flaws that were discovered...

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GIMP 3.0.2 Released To Fix Early Bugs From GIMP 3.0

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 24 March

GIMP 3.0 was 7+ years in development before releasing as stable last week for this much anticipated, GTK3-ported image manipulation program update. Thankfully we're not seeing any lengthy periods of time for new bug-fix releases with today already marking the release of GIMP 3.0.2...

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Bcachefs Aims For "Soft Frozen" On-Disk Format With Linux 6.15 Along With New Features

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 24 March

Last month Bcachefs lead developer Kent Overstreet talked of Bcachefs getting to the point of freezing its on-disk format with future on-disk format updates slated to be optional. With today's Bcachefs pull request for Linux 6.15, it's now being treated as "soft frozen" and also landing other new features for this copy-on-write file-system. Among the new features is case insensitive file/folder support contributed by Valve...

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Btrfs Adding Fast/Realtime Zstd Compression & Other Performance Optimizations

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 24 March

David Sterba of SUSE sent in all of the Btrfs file-system updates today for the now-open Linux 6.15 kernel merge window. There are some new performance optimizations, new and faster Zstd compression level options, and other changes slated to be included for this CoW file-system in Linux 6.15...

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New FWCTL Subsystem Submitted For Linux 6.15

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 24 March

Assuming no objections from Linus Torvalds, the now open Linux 6.15 merge window could introduce a brand new subsystem: fwctl...

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AMD Lands LLVM Flang Fortran Runtime Support For Compiling Directly On The GPU

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 24 March

An AMD engineer has landed experimental support within the LLVM codebase for building Flang-RT on GPUs. Flang-RT being the run-time for LLVM's modern Fortran "Flang" compiler and in turn this effort working to allow more Fortran code to easily run on GPUs with capable LLVM back-ends...