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      PCMCIA/CardBus To USB Drivers On The Chopping Block With Linux 6.4

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21 March, 2023

    Earlier this month I wrote about Linux 6.4 planning to start removing old, unused, and unmaintained PCMCIA drivers. That began with the PCMCIA "char" drivers queued for removal in this upcoming kernel cycle and now joining them are removing tow PCMCIA/CardBus to USB adapter drivers...
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      Raja Koduri Departing Intel To Start New Software Company

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21 March, 2023

    Prominent Intel leader Raja Koduri who currently serves as the company's Chief Architect is leaving to focus on a new software start-up...
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      Intel CET Shadow Stack Support Set To Be Introduced With Linux 6.4

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21 March, 2023

    After being in development for years, Intel's shadow stack support is set to be merged for the upcoming Linux 6.4 cycle. The shadow stack support is part of Intel's Control-flow Enforcement Technology (CET) security functionality...
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      OpenJDK Java 20 Released With Latest Vector API, Scoped Values

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21 March, 2023

    Promoted to general availability (GA) status today is the OpenJDK Java 20 update with a number of new features...
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      Open-Source NVIDIA Vulkan Driver "NVK" Begins Running Game While Using GSP Firmware

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21 March, 2023

    Red Hat developer David Airlie has shown off the progress being made on bringing up not only the open-source Mesa NVIDIA Vulkan driver "NVK" but doing so while making use of the NVIDIA GPU System Processor (GSP) firmware that ultimately is needed for being able to deliver better open-source driver support and performance...
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      Asahi Linux Continues Making Progress On Apple Silicon Graphics, Promising OpenGL Speed

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21 March, 2023

    Asahi Linux developer Asahi Lina has posted an update on the ongoing work bringing up their Rust-written DRM kernel driver along with the AGX Gallium3D Mesa OpenGL driver as well as progress towards the in-development Vulkan driver too...
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      Linux VGEM Driver Rewritten In Rust Sent Out For Review

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21 March, 2023

    Besides the ongoing work around the reverse-engineered Apple Silicon graphics driver being brought up in the Rust programming language, the other notable Rust effort within the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) kernel subsystem is a rewrite of the basic VGEM driver in this increasingly-used programming language. That Rust VGEM driver has now been sent out on the mailing list for review as part of a request for comments...
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      Intel's Habana Labs Accelerator Driver Readying More Gaudi2 Code For Linux 6.4

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21 March, 2023

    With the Linux 6.3 kernel the Habana Labs AI driver has moved to the new "accel" accelerator subsystem/framework while for the Linux 6.4 cycle this summer this Intel driver is continuing to speed ahead as it prepares support for the new Gaudi2 AI hardware and making other improvements for this open-source training/inference stack...
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      Trisquel 11 LTS Released As Ubuntu-Based, FSF-Approved Linux Distribution

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21 March, 2023

    Trisquel 11 is now available as the latest major release for this one of a few Free Software Foundation (FSF) approved Linux distributions that is "100% libre" and meets all of the fully free software requirements. Trisquel 11 is re-based against Ubuntu 22.04 LTS while making various other changes in the process...