Borislav Petkov of AMD reported on Monday with the latest development code he was hitting a null pointer dereference within the ACPI code and in turn a crash at boot. This was noticed on an old AMD Phenom II era system with MSI MS-7599 motherboard.
Urgent ACPI Revert For Linux 6.18 To Deal With Some Hardware Crashing
Borislav Petkov of AMD reported on Monday with the latest development code he was hitting a null pointer dereference within the ACPI code and in turn a crash at boot. This was noticed on an old AMD Phenom II era system with MSI MS-7599 motherboard.
NVIDIA Is Interested In Helping Bring Vulkan Video To Chrome
The Chrome/Chromium web browser on Linux has mostly been centered around the Video Acceleration API (VA-API) for GPU-accelerated video decoding. But the NVIDIA Linux official driver doesn't natively support VA-API and thus requires alternatives like this NVIDIA VA-API driver built atop the NVDEC interface . But it looks like NVIDIA is now willing to commit resources to help Chrome/Chromium support Vulkan
Linux 6.19 Overhauling The Intel TDX Locking Code For KVM
The KVM x86 TDX pull of new material for Linux 6.19 includes "a large overhaul of lock-related TDX code" for dealing with various locking contention issues
Rocky Linux 10.1 Released As Community Alternative To RHEL 10.1
Along with AlmaLinux 10.1 having released this week, Rocky Linux 10.1 is also now available in stable form.
Rocky Linux 10.1 was released and pulls in various RHEL 10.1 improvements like soft reboots, XFS file-system improvements, post-quantum cryptography, and more
FreeBSD 15.0-RC4 Released Due To Last Minute Issues
FreeBSD 15.0-RC4 was issued today for what is hopefully some final testing before still managing to christen FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE next week.
These late fixes are mostly minor like some man page updates
AMDGPU Driver Lacks HDMI 2.1 While AMD-Xilinx Driver Has Some HDMI 2.1 Support
DRM co-maintainer David Airlie of Red Hat pointed out on Mastodon today that while AMD has
Giga Computing R284-A92-AAL1: A Reliable 2U Rack Server For Intel Xeon 6900 Series
Over the past two months I have been publishing a number of fresh benchmarks of the Intel Xeon 6980P " Granite Rapids " flagship processor performance under Linux. All of those new Xeon 6900 series benchmarks on Phoronix have been from the Giga Computing R284-A92-AAL1 2U rack server that has proven to be a very robust and reliable server platform.
After my Xeon 6900 series "AvenueCity" reference server failed, Giga Computing came to the
NTFSPLUS Driver Updated As It Works Toward The Mainline Kernel
Namjae Jeon as the exFAT Linux driver developer, KSMBD maintainer, and contributions to other Linux storage code is the one that has been leading the NTFSPLUS effort. The NTFSPLUS driver offers better
Improved Upstream Kernel Support For TUXEDO Laptops Being Worked On
Now that there's a Uniwill laptop driver set to appear in Linux 6.19 , TUXEDO Computers has been working to build off that upstream-destined driver with some TUXEDO laptops being manufactured by Uniwill.
Werner Sembach of TUXEDO has been posting patches to extend
Nix Package Tool Approved For Availability In Fedora 44
The change proposal to add the Nix functional package manager developer tool to Fedora has been cleared today by FESCo. With Fedora 44, developers wanting to package for Nix can now have an easier time doing so from Fedora.
The change proposal for the Nix package tool feature explains:
"Nix is a