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      NVK Open-Source Vulkan Driver Development Progressing On Nearly Decade Old GTX 980M

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 8 May, 2023

    Development of the NVK open-source NVIDIA Mesa Vulkan driver is being done in part on a nearly decade old GeForce GTX 980M mobile graphics processor since at the moment it's one of the more recent NVIDIA GPUs that can be re-clocked using the existing Nouveau kernel driver code...
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      Fedora 39 Looks To Ship mkosi-initrd As A Modern Alternative To Dracut

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 8 May, 2023

    One of the recent change proposals for the in-development Fedora 39 is to ship systemd's mkosi-initrd as a modern and superior alternative to Dracut for constructing initrds...
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      Oracle Updates TrenchBoot Secure Dynamic Launch Support For Linux

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 8 May, 2023

    In development for several years now has been TrenchBoot as a framework for creating security engines to perform system launch integrity actions. This boot-time integrity framework continues advancing and this past week Oracle engineers posted their latest patches for the Linux kernel in providing dynamic launch support...
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      Linux 6.4-rc1 Released With Intel LAM, Several New AMD Features, More Rust Code & Early Apple M2

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 7 May, 2023

    Linus Torvalds just released Linux 6.4-rc1 that also marks the end of the merge window for the exciting Linux 6.4 cycle...
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      memtest86+ 6.20 Released With Improved Support For Older Systems

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 7 May, 2023

    Last October marked the release of memtest86+ 6.0 as a rewrite of this long-used, open-source bootable RAM testing software. In February marked memtest86+ 6.10 with UEFI Secure Boot signing and other new features. Out today is now memtest86+ 6.20 where a driving focus for this release is on improving support for older hardware...
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      FEX 2305 Emulator On ARM Adds More AVX Instructions, Optimizations

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 7 May, 2023

    FEX-Emu 2305 has been released, the open-source project continuing to work on x86_64 atop 64-bit ARM (AArch64) emulation support for being able to enjoy more games on ARM Linux and other software not otherwise natively available...
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      Intel Meteor Lake GuC Firmware Support Published

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 7 May, 2023

    With newer generations of Intel client processors having the GuC firmware binaries is now a hard requirement for accelerated graphics support. Like with AMD and NVIDIA GPUs, firmware binaries are a requirement beyond the open-source Linux driver code. This week Intel published their initial GuC firmware binaries for upcoming Meteor Lake processors...
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      New Patches Aim To Tackle Linux x86_64 PIE Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 7 May, 2023

    Going back years there has been patches for allowing the Linux x86_64 kernel to build as Position Independent Executable (PIE) code to further enhance the system security. Antgroup engineers most recently have been tackling the Linux x86_64 PIE support and last week sent out a new patch series...
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      Intel Shadow Stack For Linux Hits Last-Minute Snag With Issue Raised By Torvalds

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 7 May, 2023

    Intel Shaodw Stack support was submitted for Linux 6.4 at the start of the merge window but now with this two-week merge window drawing to a close, it hasn't been pulled yet and Linus Torvalds raised technical issues with the proposed patches that now jeopardize its arrival this cycle...