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      How Cloudflare Updates The BIOS & Firmware Across Thousands Of Servers

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 March, 2023

    For those wondering how Cloudflare keeps their thousands of servers around the world up-to-date for the latest BIOS and firmware, Cloudflare's engineering blog has put out an interesting post that outlines their process of handling system BIOS updates as well as various other firmware updates...
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      KDE KWin's Move Away From GBM Surfaces

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 March, 2023

    KDE developer Xaver Hugl has written a blog post how the KWin compositor's DRM back-end has been working to move itself off GBM surfaces (gbm_surfaces) to instead allocate buffers directly and import them into EGL. This ultimately should be a win for the KWin compositor once everything is complete...
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      Ubuntu 23.04 Preparing To Land Its Linux 6.2 Based Kernel

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13 March, 2023

    The Ubuntu 23.04 "Lunar Lobster" development builds recently transitioned from Linux 5.19 as in use by Ubuntu 22.10/22.04.2 to a Linux 6.1 based kernel. This led some -- including myself -- to wonder if Canonical changed course and shifted to Linux 6.1 LTS instead of the Linux 6.2 kernel that has been out as stable since last month. Fortunately, that's not the case and Ubuntu 23.04 is preparing to soon land Linux 6.2 across all kernel flavors...
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      Intel's Open-Source Linux Compute Stack Maturing Very Well For Arc Graphics

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13 March, 2023

    From early December to late February there was an absence of new Compute-Runtime updates for that open-source stack for providing OpenCL and oneAPI Level Zero support for Intel graphics hardware on Linux. It was out of trend as they worked to move from a weekly~biweekly release rhythm to a monthly release cadence while taking extra time for making various other changes too. After that three month lull, they are back to pushing out new compute updates and damn it's looking nice. At least in my testing, the progress they've quietly made over the past few months has been very nice for the compute stack compatibility/support and performance.
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      ipmitool Repository Archived, Developer Suspended By GitHub

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13 March, 2023

    The ipmitool utility on Linux systems is widely-used for controlling IPMI-enabled servers and other systems. This tool for interacting with the Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) is extremely common with server administrators while now its development is in a temporary state of limbo due to GitHub...
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      Intel Meteor Lake Graphics IDs Enabled For Mesa 23.1

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13 March, 2023

    The open-source OpenGL and Vulkan support for Intel's next-generation Meteor Lake client processors is taking a step forward with next quarter's Mesa 23.1 release...
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      Linux 6.1.19 LTS & 6.2.6 Released With AMD System Stuttering Workaround

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13 March, 2023

    Following last night's Linux 6.2-rc2 release that brings a workaround for system stuttering on some AMD Ryzen systems, that workaround was quickly back-ported to the Linux 6.1 LTS and 6.2 stable series and spun into new releases for Monday morning...
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      AMD Working On VirtIO GPU & Passthrough GPU Support For Xen Virtualization

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13 March, 2023

    AMD is working to enable VirtIO GPU and pass-through GPU support for the Xen virtualization hypervisor with Radeon graphics...
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      Intel Sends Out Sixteenth Round Of Linux LAM Patches

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13 March, 2023

    Intel's Linux engineers continue working on Linear Address Masking (LAM) for making use of untranslated address bits of 64-bit linear addresses so that it can be used for arbitrary metadata. The hope is that this LAM metadata can lead to more efficient address sanitizers, optimizations for JITs and VMs, and more, but it's been a lengthy journey getting the support upstreamed...