ARM Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life (Terry Pratchett, Jingo)

Qt 6.7.1 Released With 400+ Fixes - Including Several Wayland Fixes

([Qt] 21 May 06:03 AM EDT Qt 6.7.1)

The Qt Company today released Qt 6.7.1 as the first point release for the cross-platform Qt 6.7.1 toolkit. Since releasing Qt 6.7 just under two months ago, they have fixed more than 400 bugs.



Linux 6.10 Adds Support To Reset CXL Devices

([Hardware] 21 May 06:12 AM EDT Resetting CXL Devices)

In addition to the CXL updates for Linux 6.10 that were sent in last week, the PCI subsystem updates this week bring a notable addition for Compute Express Link (CXL) devices.



Linux 6.10 Adds eDP/DisplayPort Support For The Snapdragon X Elite

([Arm] 21 May 07:12 AM EDT Linux 6.10 DisplayPort)

Qualcomm and their partners at Linaro have been busy working on the Linux support for the Snapdragon X Elite as the high-end Arm SoC beginning to roll-out for laptops. The latest Snapdragon X Elite upstreaming is Embedded DisplayPort and DisplayPort support for the Snapdragon X Elite.



XFS Expanding Its Online Repair Capabilities In Linux 6.10

([Linux Storage] 20 May 08:40 PM EDT Linux 6.10 XFS)

The XFS file-system improvements have been merged for the in-development Linux 6.10 kernel.



Linux 6.10 Honors One Last ReiserFS Request Made By Hans Reiser

([Linux Storage] 20 May 04:55 PM EDT ReiserFS README)

While ReiserFS is obsolete and will eventually be dropped from the upstream Linux kernel in Linux 6.10 is one last ReiserFS change that was requested by former lead developer Hans Reiser.



RFC Patches Posted For Rust-Written NVIDIA "Nova" GPU Driver

([Nouveau] 20 May 03:37 PM EDT Nova GPU Kernel Driver)

Red Hat engineers have been developing Nova as a new, Rust-written open-source NVIDIA kernel graphics driver as the eventual successor to the Nouveau kernel driver and is designed around NVIDIA's GPU System Processor (GSP) thus making the driver relevant for RTX 20 / Turing GPUs and newer. Today they posted a request for comments (RFC) patch series of the Nova driver and Rust DRM abstractions.



Intel Announces Q3'2024 Arrival For Lunar Lake

([Intel] 20 May 02:18 PM EDT Intel Lunar Lake)

Intel previously indicated that Lunar Lake processors would launch by the end of 2024 and leading to anticipation of a Q4 launch... Intel today announced that Lunar Lake will actually launch in Q3.



Many x86 Laptop Improvements In Linux 6.10 Plus Acer ARM Laptop

([Hardware] 20 May 01:58 PM EDT x86 Platform Drivers)

The x86 platform driver updates have been merged for the ongoing Linux 6.10 merge window. The platform-drivers-x86 changes continue to primarily revolve around x86 Intel/AMD laptops but also some other desktop/platform drivers. Now in Linux 6.10 there is also a new "ARM64" sub-section of the platform drivers.



Fedora Miracle Spin Approved To Ship As Part Of Fedora Linux 41

([Fedora] 20 May 10:33 AM EDT Fedora 41 Miracle Spin)

The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) has approved of the newest Fedora desktop ISO spin: Fedora Miracle.



Farewell Intel Xeon Phi: Support Removed In The GCC 15 Compiler

([Intel] 20 May 09:40 AM EDT GCC 15 Drops Xeon Phi)

Last week I wrote about Intel aiming to remove Xeon Phi support in GCC 15 with the products being end-of-life and deprecated in GCC 14. While some openly wondered whether the open-source community would allow it given the Xeon Phi accelerators were available to buy just a few years ago and at some very low prices going back years so some potentially finding use still out of them especially during this AI boom (and still readily available to buy used for around ~$50 USD), today the Intel Xeon Phi support was indeed removed.



AMDGPU ISP Firmware Upstreamed In linux-firmware.git

([Radeon] 20 May 08:36 AM EDT Image Signal Processing)

It was just earlier this month that AMD Linux kernel graphics driver patches appeared for introducing a new ISP hardware block for Image Signal Processing with new AMD APUs. Already the AMDGPU ISP firmware has appeared in linux-firmware.git indicating that this "ISP" block may be coming in hardware quite soon if not already quietly found within some products.



OCFS2 File-System Seeing Improved Write Performance On Linux 6.10

([Linux Storage] 20 May 06:42 AM EDT Oracle Cluster File System)

It's not often having anything to write about on the Oracle Cluster File-System v2 (OCFS2), but with Linux 6.10 it's seeing a rather significant performance optimization.



Linux 6.10 Will Print The Number Of Populated Memory Slots At Boot Time

([Linux Kernel] 20 May 06:24 AM EDT RAM Slots)

As a small information heads up, the Linux 6.10 kernel will print the number of populated memory slots at boot time to the kernel log as a little helper.



Intel CR 24.17.29377.6 Offers Latest OpenCL & oneAPI Level Zero Support

([Intel] 20 May 06:04 AM EDT Compute Runtime)

Intel Compute Runtime 24.17.29377.6 is now available as the latest routine update to this open-source GPU compute stack used by the company's integrated and discrete graphics products for providing OpenCL and oneAPI Level Zero compute capabilities.



Fwupd 1.9.20 Released With Updated FPC Fingerprint Reader Support

([LVFS] 20 May 05:51 AM EDT Fwupd 1.9.20)

While Fwupd developers are working toward the Fwupd 2.0 release, out this morning is Fwupd 1.9.20 as the newest point release for this open-source solution for firmware updating on Linux that pairs with the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS).



Bcachefs Brings Safety Improvements To Linux 6.10, Preps For Online Fsck

([Linux Storage] 19 May 02:15 PM EDT Bcachefs)

Bcachefs lead developer Kent Overstreet today sent out his feature pull request of all the new file-system code that is ready in time for the Linux 6.10 merge window.



Cloudflare Praises Golang PGO For Significant CPU Savings

([Programming] 19 May 06:47 AM EDT Profile Guided Optimizations)

Released over a year ago was Golang 1.20 with support for Profile Guided Optimizations (PGO) and has since been improved with Go 1.21 for 2~7% faster Go binaries thanks to this optimization approach also found with other compilers. The engineers at Cloudflare have put out a blog post this week praising Go's PGO support and the CPU savings they are seeing as a result.



EXT4 In Linux 6.10 Adds FS_IOC_GETFSSYSFSPATH Support

([Linux Storage] 19 May 06:36 AM EDT EXT4 + Linux 6.10)

While EROFS is seeing Zstd support and Bcachefs is seeing performance optimizations with the in-development Linux 6.10 kernel, over on the mature EXT4 file-system side the changes are mostly small. There are some minor changes, more folio conversion work, and also adding support for the FS_IOC_GETFSSYSFSPATH ioctl that has been seeing some standardization and adoption by the common Linux file-systems.



Linux 6.10 Scheduler Changes Bring More Refinements

([Linux Kernel] 19 May 06:04 AM EDT Kernel Scheduler)

Alongside all of the other pull requests by Ingo Molnar submitted at the start of the week during the opening of the Linux 6.10 merge window were the scheduler updates. As usual, the kernel scheduler work continues to see various tweaks and refinements to enhance its behavior.



Linux Patch Posted For The Bigscreen Beyond VR Headset

([Hardware] 19 May 06:14 AM EDT Bigscreen Beyond)

A Linux patch has been posted for delivering a quirk so that the Bigscreen Beyond VR Headset can properly behave under Linux and in turn also jives with the likes of SteamVR.



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