Linux 6.16-rc2 Released With An Initial Batch Of Fixes

Following the release of Linux 6.16-rc1 last Sunday that capped off the Linux 6.16 merge window, Linux 6.16-rc2 is now available with an initial week's worth of bug/regression fixes. Linux 6.16 development continues in aiming toward a stable release around the end of July...
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OrangePi Equips Gateway Board with RISC-V Processor, Four RJ45 Ports, and OpenWRT Support lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

Gemini 435Le Features Active Stereo, Dual-Laser Modules, and 6-Axis IMU for 3D Vision lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

Linux 6.17 Looks Like It Could Go Ahead And Make SMP Support Unconditional

Back in May a big patch series was published for reworking the Linux kernel to make the SMP support unconditional. Right now those that happen to be running Linux in a uniprocessor (1 CPU core) configuration can build with "CONFIG_SMP" disabled but the proposed patches would make symmetric multi-processing support always present. Those patches took a step forward…
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lol, I like how the author says he intentionally didn't report on a project because of "no confidence" in its sustainability in the same breath as reporting on X11, the unsustainable mess that's largely abandoned for good reasons. I'd say a fork of X11 is a lot more interesting to read about than a bunch of commit reverts to an increasingly irrelevant project.

16-bit Medium Precision Improvements Merged For AMD Radeon Mesa Code

Prominent AMD Mesa developer Marek Olšák this week landed a number of fixes for the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver code in working to enable medium precision "mediump" support for this open-source graphics driver...
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Lyra Zero W Packs RK3506B and Wi-Fi 6 into Raspberry Pi Zero-Sized Board lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

Linux 6.16 Lands Proper Power Management Fix For Code That Caused Power Regression

Linux 6.15 mistakenly shipped with a nasty power regression for some systems, such as those relying on the "nosmt" option to disable Simultaneous Multi-Threading / Hyper Threading. That idle power regression was fixed for Linux 6.15.2 and Linux 6.16 Git by reverting the troubled patch that introduced the regression. Now merged ahead of Linux 6.16-rc2 is a proper fi…
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Linux Kernel API Specification Framework Proposed To Help Stabilize User-Space Interfaces

Sasha Levin just sent out an initial "request for comments" patch series for the Linux kernel in aiming to establish a Kernel API Specification Framework...
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SDL Merges Wayland Pointer Warp Support To Help Native Wayland Gaming

Introduced with this week's Wayland Protocols 1.45 release is adding the Pointer Warp protocol to staging. The SDL hardware/software abstraction library commonly used by cross-platform games was quick to merge support for using the native Pointer Warp protocol on Wayland...
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When They Have Nothing Left to Help Advance Abusive Litigation for Microsoft People... Other Than Throwing ~500 Pages of Someone Else's Work Into a PDF lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

Bcachefs Is Now Able To Auto-Fix A Few More Fsck Errors

Another round of Bcachefs file-system fixes were submitted and merged this week for the ongoing Linux 6.16 cycle, including the ability to auto-fix more file-system check "fsck" errors...
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