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      Linux Driver Preparing Support For ASUS Screenpad On High-End Laptops

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

    In addition to the ASUS laptop improvements for Linux 6.6 with the ASUS-WMI driver, additional feature work is on the way for future kernel versions with one of those interesting additions being support for the ASUS Screenpad. Some higher-end ASUS laptops feature a secondary screen "screenpad" on the laptops and the pending ASUS-WMI driver patch will properly support it...
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      Expanded Platform Support For AMD Dynamic Boost Control Being Worked On For Linux

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

    Since early this year AMD has been working on Linux enablement patches for Dynamic Boost Control (DBC). This is a new feature of some AMD SoCs that allow an "authenticated entity" to have greater control over certain SoC characteristics to improve the power/performance. AMD DBC was merged for Linux 6.6 just days ago while already new patches have been posted that extend the supported platforms for this Dynamic Boost Control functionality...
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      Bcachefs Looks Like It Won't Make It For Linux 6.6

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

    While we've been looking forward to Bcachefs landing and carrying out a fresh round of performance testing of Bcachefs against other file-system options, it's looking clear now that Bcachefs won't be landing for the Linux 6.6 merge window...
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      Linux 6.6 KVM Brings Intel & AMD Fixes, SEV-ES DebugSwap, New RISC-V Extensions

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

    Merged on Thursday were a batch of KVM virtualization changes for the Linux 6.6 kernel...
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      OpenZFS 2.2-rc4 Delivers Last Minute Fixes

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

    OpenZFS 2.2 has been in the works to provide Linux container support, BLAKE3 checksumming, block cloning and other new features. It's looking like that release will be wrapped up soon while released on Thursday was v2.2-rc4 to help encourage last minute testing of this file-system driver for Linux and FreeBSD systems...
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      Intel QAT Zstd Plugin v0.1 Released For Speeding Up Zstandard Compression

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

    As a big win for Intel's QuickAssist Technology (QAT) accelerator found as an option with Sapphire Rapids processors and prior QAT hardware, there's been a QAT Zstd plug-in to provide big performance/efficiency benefits. Version 0.1 of that plug-in was released today...
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      KDE Frameworks 6 & Qt6'ed Gear Apps Will Release Alongside Plasma 6.0 In February

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

    Going along with KDE Plasma 6.0 releasing in early February will also be the Qt6-based KDE Gear applications and KDE Frameworks 6 happening in-sync...
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      Linux 6.6 Lands Support For The Cirrus Logic CS42L43 Audio Codec

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

    In addition to the notable sound changes that merged last week for Linux 6.6 that included AMD VanGogh SOF support and enablement around a Valve "Galileo" device, sent in via the MFD pull request this week is work enabling the new Cirrus Logic CS42L43 audio codec...
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      New ASUS Laptop Features & HP BIOS Settings Driver For Linux 6.6

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

    Merged a few days ago for the ongoing Linux 6.6 merge window were the x86 platform driver updates, which bring a few interesting Intel/AMD laptop improvements as well as a new driver to support altering select HP BIOS settings from within the confines of Linux...