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      AMD Patches To Generate DeviceTree Nodes For PCI Devices Merged In Linux 6.6

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 September, 2023

    The DeviceTree changes for Linux 6.6 add the ability to generate DeviceTree (DT) nodes for PCI devices. AMD spearheaded this effort for applying DeviceTree overlays to PCI devices containing non-discoverable downstream devices...
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      Intel Visual Sensing Controller "IVSC" Driver Support Coming With Linux 6.6

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 September, 2023

    The media subsystem updates were sent out today for the Linux 6.6 kernel and most notably is introducing the Intel IVSC MEI drivers as well as extending the Intel IPU bridge logic to work with these new drivers...
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      OpenColorIO 2.3 Released With New AVX/AVX2 Optimizations

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 September, 2023

    OpenColorIO (OCIO) as the open-source color management solution for motion picture production and maintained by the Academy Software Foundation is out with a new feature release that will be part of their 2024 VFX Reference Platform. Notable with this release are new SIMD optimizations with AVX/AVX2 and Arm NEON...
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      Inception & Downfall, Linux 6.6 Development Kicking Off & Other August Highlights

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 September, 2023

    While approaching the end of summer, there's no breaks at Phoronix and over the course of August were 240 original news articles and another 15 featured Linux hardware reviews / multi-page featured benchmark articles. Here is a look back at what was most exciting for the month...
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      Wget2 2.1 Brings New Options, Proxies For Non-Default Ports, Better SSL Code

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 September, 2023

    Released nearly one year ago was GNU Wget2 2.0 as a big improvement over Wget to support more protocols like HTTP/2, enabling multi-threading support and parallel connections, and a range of other feature additions. Published on Thursday was Wget2 2.1 as the newest step forward for this much-improved Wget open-source downloading solution...
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      Linux 6.6 NFS Enables NFSv4.2 READ_PLUS Option By Default

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 September, 2023

    In addition to NFSD bringing a thrilling feature for Linux 6.6 in the form of NFSv4 write delegation support, the NFS client code for the in-development Linux 6.6 kernel also has a notable feature change...
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      Google Releases libaom 3.7 AV1 Encoder With More Optimizations

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 September, 2023

    Following the releases this week of Intel's SVT-AV1 1.7 encoder and the libavif 1.0 AV1 Image File Format release, Google engineers are out with libaom 3.7 as the newest feature release to that AV1 encode library...
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      Intel Shadow Stack Finally Merged For Linux 6.6

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 31 August, 2023

    The Intel Shadow Stack support that is part of their Control-flow Enforcement Technology (CET) has finally been merged for the Linux 6.6 kernel after it was previously rejected by Linus Torvalds...
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      Intel GDS/Downfall Linux Mitigation Updated To Confirm All Skylake CPUs Are Affected

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 31 August, 2023

    The Linux mitigation for the Intel Gather Data Sampling (GDS) "Downfall" vulnerability was updated to reflect all Skylake and Kabylake CPUs being vulnerable to this nasty issue. Due to those Skylake client processors reaching the end of their official support life at Intel, the original Linux mitigation for GDS/Downfall didn't properly protect those older Core processor models...