custom-kernel-gen: Add support for zstd and switch to it by default. · lucasdemarchi/toolbox@e55ba80
It gives a much better ratio between size and time it takes to compress. On a test kernel I have: Compression size time none 751M 4s gz 208M 33s zstd 169M 7s xz 109M 5min11sgithub.com
"[…] The one other thing I do want […] make sure […] there is no internal confusion about the GPLv2 inside Paragon, and that any legal people etc are all aware of this all […]"
Paragon NTFSv3 (was Re: [GIT PULL] vboxsf fixes for 5.14-1) - Linus Torvalds
Paragon NTFSv3 (was Re: [GIT PULL] vboxsf fixes for 5.14-1) - Linus Torvaldslore.kernel.org
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Kernel Pwning with eBPF: a Love Story
We cover the basics of eBPF and the verifier component, which is supposed to make sure the code is safe to run.www.graplsecurity.com
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ldpreload.com/blog/git-bisec… (written by @geofft)
Finding a kernel regression in half an hour with git bisect run
The git bisect command helps you identify the first commit in a range that broke something. You give it a good commit and a bad one, and it will do a binary search between the two to find the first bad commit.ldpreload.com
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libinput and hold gestures
Thanks to the work done by Josè Expòsito , libinput 1.19 will ship with a new type of gesture: Hold Gestures . So far libinput supported ...who-t.blogspot.com
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iptables: The two variants and their relationship with nftables | Red Hat Developer
Explore the relationship between iptables and nftables, and discover how iptables-nft gives you the best of both worlds without breaking legacy code.developers.redhat.com
Looking at just the last three years, there are 23 identified flaws with a CVE that mention "buffer overflow", and 11 are memcpy()-related buffer overflows.
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* The first half of the 5.14 merge window lwn.net/Articles/86124…
* The conclusion of the 5.14 merge window lwn.net/Articles/86169…
The first half of the 5.14 merge window
As of this writing, just under 5,000 non-merge changesets have been pulled into the mainline repository for the 5.14 development cycle.lwn.net
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Reverse-engineering the Mali G78
Collabora reverse-engineers Mali G78 instruction set and releases documentation, disassembler, and assembler for itswww.collabora.com
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Tobias Klausmann 2 days ago
git bisect(and its scriptability) to me is the most overlooked killer-feature of git.