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Linux 6.17 Drops Pktcdvd Driver, Many Block & IO_uring Improvements

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 30 July

Merged already for the in-development Linux 6.17 kernel were the many block subsystem and IO_uring changes for enhancing I/O on Linux as we roll toward the H2'2025 Linux distribution releases...

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AMD Hardware Feedback Interface & CPUID Faulting Merged For Linux 6.17

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 30 July

Two notable AMD CPU feature additions were merged overnight for the in-development Linux 6.17 kernel...

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AMD Zen 5 CPUs See First Microcode Updates In Linux-Firmware.Git

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 30 July

AMD yesterday upstreamed a batch of new CPU microcode files to linux-firmware.git as the de facto repository where component firmware/microcode is easily distributed to Linux distributions. This also marks the first time that Family 1Ah (Family 26) CPU microcode is updated there for the latest Zen 5 processors...

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Linux 6.17 Now Makes Multi-Core/SMP Support Unconditional

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 30 July

Earlier this year Linux kernel patches were posted for making SMP support unconditional so the kernel is always built for multi-core capabilities. With uniprocessor core environments being extremely rare especially for those that would be using an up-to-date, upstream Linux kernel, dropping non-SMP support would allow simplifying code paths within the kernel. Well, for Linux 6.17 it's finally happening...

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Arch Linux Installer Adds Bluetooth Support & U2F Authentication

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 30 July

Archinstall 3.0.9 released today as the newest iteration of this text-based Arch Linux operating system installer...

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Linux 6.17 Improves NUMA Locality For SMP Call Rather Than Deferring To Random CPU Core

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 30 July

After all of these years of Linux dominating the high performance computing (HPC) space and other industries, one might think (most) all the interesting performance nuggets have been uncovered and well thought out and robust fallbacks in place across all important code paths. As we showcase almost each cycle, interesting new performance bits to be uncovered within the Linux kernel. For Linux 6.17 thanks to a NVIDIA engineer is applying a better fallback for NUMA locality rather than simply picking a random CPU core...

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Longtime Linux Kernel Engineer With 14 Years At Intel Is Now At Meta

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 30 July

Facebook's Meta already employs an all-star team of Linux kernel engineers and it doesn't appear that they are over in recruiting top-tier Linux kernel talent. One of Intel's senior Linux software engineers is now the latest high profile kernel developer onboard at Meta...

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Proton 10.0-2 Beta Delivers More Enhancements For Linux Gaming

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 30 July

Proton 10.0-2 beta was released today by Valve and CodeWeavers for furthering this Wine-derived software powering Steam Play for running Windows games on Linux with great success...

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Linux 6.17 Staging Continues Cleaning The Realtek RTL8723BS Driver

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 29 July

The staging area of the Linux kernel, where preliminary code initially appears to mature until being promoted out, continues seeing a lot of code churn. With Linux 6.17 the staging updates were submitted and now merged with one driver in particular standing out...

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