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      Intel Posts Latest 113 Patches For Linux KVM TDX Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 29 May, 2023

    One of the new features of Intel Xeon Scalable 4th Gen "Sapphire Rapids" server processors is support for Trust Domain Extensions (TDX) but for this generation is only being activated for CPUs going to select cloud providers. Intel TDX allows better isolating virtual machines from the VMM/hypervisor and other non-TD software on the platform. This limited roll-out of Intel TDX has worked out okay with the Linux support for this security feature still being in flux. Sent out today was the 14th spin of the 113 patches needed for getting KVM TDX support wired up within the Linux kernel...
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      GCC 11.4 Released With 110+ Bugs Fixed

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 29 May, 2023

    While GCC 13 saw its first stable release several weeks back, for those taking their time in moving to major new compiler releases and still relying on the two-year-old GCC 11 series, out today is the GCC 11.4 point release...
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      Arm Details The Cortex-X4 With +15% Performance, Armv9.2 ISA

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 29 May, 2023

    Arm today announced the new high-end Cortex-X4 CPU core design for delivering their most powerful Cortex compute cluster...
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      Linux 6.4-rc4 Released As A "Fairly Normal" Release

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 28 May, 2023

    Due to Linus Torvalds traveling over this US Memorial Day weekend, he released Linux 6.4-rc4 about twelve hours ahead of schedule...
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      Vulkan 1.3.251 Released With One New Extension Worked On By Valve, Nintendo & Others

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 28 May, 2023

    Vulkan 1.3.251 is out today as a rare Sunday morning spec update for this Khronos graphics/compute API...
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      Linux Lands Fix For Potentially Bogus Number Of Intel Hybrid CPU HT Siblings

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 28 May, 2023

    A few days ago I wrote about a Linux kernel patch being prepared for fixing Intel hybrid CPU SMP/HT topology reporting due to the way the Linux kernel was currently counting the number of Hyper Threading siblings for each core. Fortunately, that fix which is apparently becomes more pressing for upcoming Meteor Lake processors, has now been picked up in time for today's Linux 6.4-rc4 release and is set for back-porting to stable kernel series...
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      Wine-Staging 8.9 Ships With The Very Latest VKD3D Code

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 28 May, 2023

    Following the release of Wine 8.9 on Friday for enabling Windows games and applications to run on Linux, Wine-Staging 8.9 is now available for this more testing/development-focused flavor of Wine that more liberally picks up in-development patches...
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      Debian 12.0's Installer Reaches RC4 Status

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 27 May, 2023

    The Debian 12 "Bookworm" release is quickly approaching with an early June release date while for helping facilitate more last minute testing is a fourth release candidate of the updated Debian Installer...
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      Mesa 23.2 Virgl Lands Support For OpenGL 4.6 Inside Virtual Machines

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 27 May, 2023

    The Virgl driver within Mesa for allowing open-source OpenGL support within virtualized environments in conjunction with the Virglrenderer is now capable of exposing OpenGL 4.6...