Linux Action News 255
Details on two new efforts in the Linux kernel, the Pi-like RISC-V board that just hit its funding goal, and a significant milestone for Asahi GPU driver development.
August 25, 202220m 11s
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Details on two new efforts in the Linux kernel, the Pi-like RISC-V board that just hit its funding goal, and a significant milestone for Asahi GPU driver development.
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Links:
- Experimental Kernel Patches — Patches sent out today clean-up the code taken on those architectures for bringing CPU cores down and allow for parallelism. With these patches and an 80-core Arm server, a Kexec reboot can go from taking around 15 seconds to now just around one second.
- ByteDance Working To Make It Faster Kexec Booting The Linux Kernel
- [RFC 00/10] arm64/riscv: Introduce fast kexec reboot - Pingfan Liu
- [PATCH 0/4] faster kexec reboot - Albert Huang
- VisionFive 2 — Kickstarter — High-performance quad-core RISC-V single board computer (SBC) with an integrated 3D GPU, 2G/4G/8G LPDDR.
- Linux Foundation TAB election: call for nominees — The 2022 election for members of the Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board (TAB) will be held during the Linux Plumbers Conference, September 12 to 14.
- Webmin 2.0 Released — Webmin is a web-based system administration tool for Unix-like servers and services with over 1,000,000 installations worldwide.
- Flatpak 1.14.0 Released — Flatpak 1.14 brings a variety of mostly small and lower-level improvements to this Linux app sandboxing tech
- Flatpak 1.14 Released With Improvements For Sandboxed Linux Apps
- Firefox 104.0 — The Firefox UI itself will now be throttled for performance and battery usage when minimized or occluded, in the same way background tabs are.
- Rosenzweig – Clip control on the Apple GPU — After a year in development, the open source “Asahi” driver for the Apple GPU is running real games.
- Asahi Linux May Have OpenGL 2.1 For Apple M1/M2 By Year’s End — " I’m optimistic that we’ll have native OpenGL 2.1 in Asahi Linux by the end of the year."
Topics
Linux News PodcastLinux Action NewsAArch64RISC-VKernel PatchesKexecVisionFive 2RISC-V dev boardKickstarterStarFiveImagination BXE-4-32SiFiveSuper Early Bird specialTABLinux Foundation Technical Advisory BoardWebminPerlFlatpak 1.14.0flatpak command-lineFirefox 104Idle UIAlyssa RosenzweigAsahiGPU DriverApple MOpenGLMesaNeverballMetalAsahi Linux by the end of the year