stress-ng/stress-ng-2021.pdf at master · ColinIanKing/stress-ng
This is the stress-ng upstream project git repository. stress-ng will stress test a computer system in various selectable ways. It was designed to exercise various physical subsystems of a compute...github.com
What people should worry about: the impact on the land of the #Linux #kernel if its chief columnist is hit by a bus or retires before finding a proper successor.
Hopefully Jonathan finds one soon.
[bookmark=https://twitter.com/lwnnet/status/1527028357984133121]LWN is hiring
LWN is hiring
LWN does its best to provide comprehensive coverage of the free-software development community, but there is far more going on than our small staff can handle.lwn.net
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"LoongArch is a new RISC ISA, which is a bit like MIPS or RISC-V" (quoted from the cover letter: lore.kernel.org/all/2022051809… )
See also: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loongson#…
Re: [PATCH V11 00/22] arch: Add basic LoongArch support - Arnd Bergmann
Re: [PATCH V11 00/22] arch: Add basic LoongArch support - Arnd Bergmannlore.kernel.org
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Highlights:
* support for new GPUs from #AMD and #Intel
* WSL now supports OpenGL 4.2
* WSL now supports Vulkan thx to the driver Dozen "dzn"
* as always: general and game/app specific performance improvements and bug-fixes
[bookmark=https://twitter.com/kernellogger/status/1525201515522269184]Seems #git finally conquered the last rebel stronghold in the land of the #Linux #kernel :
Andrew/akpm, who afaics was the last maintainer that regular mailed his changes to Linus, is finally switching to git now.
git.kernel.org/torvalds/c/364…
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D3D12: Implement H264 video encode and decode (!16286) · Merge requests · Mesa / mesa
The following merge request implements the necessary changes to implement a d3d12 video gallium driver and enable the following VAAPI entrypoints for H264/NV12 bitstreams. The pipe_video_codec implementation is...gitlab.freedesktop.org
forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/wayland-info…
Wayland information for r515 beta release
There are several areas in which the R515 NVIDIA driver lacks feature parity between X11 and Wayland. These may be due to limitations of the driver itself, the Wayland protocol, or the specific Wayland compositor in use.forums.developer.nvidia.com
Tetragon - eBPF-based Security Observability & Runtime Enforcement
Introduction to Tetragon - eBPF-based Security Observability & Runtime Enforcementisovalent.com
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"So things continue to be fairly calm, and as such this is likely the last rc before 5.18 unless something bad happens next week.
Please give it one last week of testing […]"
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[bookmark=https://twitter.com/lwnnet/status/1525133032058929152][$] CXL 1: Management and tiering [/bookmark]
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A detailed article by @0xricksanchez about the Dirty Pipe vulnerability and its exploitation. The article also recaps Dirty Cow and compares it to Dirty Pipe.
Learning Linux kernel exploitation - Part 2 - CVE-2022-0847
Continuing to walk down Linux Kernel exploitation lane. This time around with an unanticipated topic: DirtyPipe as it actually nicely fits the series as an example.0x434b.dev
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Andrew/akpm, who afaics was the last maintainer that regular mailed his changes to Linus, is finally switching to git now.
git.kernel.org/torvalds/c/364…
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Linux Plumbers Conference 2022
12-14 September, Dublin, Ireland The Linux Plumbers Conference is the premier event for developers working at all levels of the plumbing layer and beyond.lpc.events
Linux Plumbers Conference 2022
12-14 September, Dublin, Ireland The Linux Plumbers Conference is the premier event for developers working at all levels of the plumbing layer and beyond.lpc.events
threedots.ovh/blog/2022/05/n…
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> The open flavor of kernel modules supports Turing, Ampere, and forward. […] the open kernel modules depend on the GPU System Processor (GSP) first introduced in Turing.
GSP firmware:
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