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      Updated AMD Family 19h Microcode Published Following "Inception"

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9 August, 2023

    Following yesterday's disclosure of the AMD "Inception" security vulnerability and the Linux kernel patches merged for reporting the mitigation status as well as the kernel-based handling for earlier generation Zen CPUs, the Family 19h microcode mitigations have now been picked up by the linux-firmware.git repository...
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      AMD P-State Preferred Core Handling Being Enabled For Linux

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9 August, 2023

    A new set of patches have been posted for the Linux kernel that implement AMD P-State Preferred Core handling for the amd-pstate driver...
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      KDE Plasma 6 Wayland Session: "It's Been Working Great!"

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9 August, 2023

    As a lot of active development continues around the KDE Plasma 6 desktop and the developers eyeing a beta in a few months, it appears work on this Qt6-ported desktop environment is coming together quite nicely...
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      Linus Torvalds Reviews The Bcachefs File-System Code

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9 August, 2023

    The long-in-development Bcachefs file-system driver was submitted for Linux 6.5 but never merged this cycle due to various technical issues and developer in-fighting. Linus Torvalds himself has now gotten around to reviewing the proposed code and chiming in on the situation...
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      Intel Speed Select Linux Tool Updated To Handle 32 Socket Servers

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9 August, 2023

    The intel-speed-select tool that lives within the Linux kernel source tree has seen a set of patches prepared for the upcoming Linux 6.6 merge window. Arguably most interesting with this updated Intel Speed Select tool is now the ability to work with more than eight CPU sockets per platform -- the new limit is 32...
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      AMD Inception / Speculative Return Stack Overflow Linux Mitigation Code Being Cleaned Up

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9 August, 2023

    As soon as the AMD Inception CPU vulnerability was made public yesterday, the Linux kernel mitigation patches were merged and within hours appeared in six new stable point releases for the kernel along with the Intel Downfall mitigation patches. Today though these patches are seeing a rework to clean-up this mitigation...
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      Six New Stable Linux Kernel Updates For Intel DOWNFALL & AMD INCEPTION

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

    As a result of the AMD INCEPTION and Intel DOWNFALL speculative execution vulnerabilities published this Patch Tuesday, Linux 6.5 Git quickly picked up the patches on embargo expiration and now there are six new stable point releases for back-porting these CPU security vulnerabilites to the supported stable kernel series...
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      NVIDIA 535.98 Linux Driver Released With Several Fixes

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

    NVIDIA today rolled out a new stable point release in their R535 series for Linux users to provide a handful of bug fixes...
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      Intel 20230808 Microcode Published For DOWNFALL, Other Security & Functional Issues

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

    In addition to the Linux kernel patches for GDS/Downfall for reporting the mitigated state and handling around Intel's latest speculative execution vulnerability, the updated CPU microcode has now been published on GitHub. In addition to having the Downfall mitigations for Skylake through Icelake/Tigerlake, there are also other security updates and functional issues resolved by this Intel 20230808 CPU microcode release...