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Wine-Staging 9.20 Fixes An 11 Year Old Wine Bug Report

Building off yesterday's release of Wine 9.20, Wine-Staging 9.20 is now available for this experimental blend of Wine featuring 357 extra patches currently atop the upstream codebase for various testing/experimental features and functionality...
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Linux Might Drop Fieldbus Support For Industrial Systems With No One Maintaining It

Merged back in 2019 was the Fieldbus system for connecting different systems/components/instruments within industrial environments. Five years later the code isn't being well maintained and looks like it will be on its way out the door if no one steps up to better maintain this driver support for industrial systems for process automation...
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Linux 6.12-rc4 Adding Controller Support For The MSI Claw A1M & 8BitDo Ultimate 2C

Sent out overnight were a few input subsystem patches ahead of the Linux 6.12-rc4 kernel release tomorrow. Notable from this pull is adding input support for the MSI Claw A1M gaming handheld as well as the 8BitDo Ultimate 2C Wireless gaming controller...
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KDE Developers Wrapping Up Fallout From Plasma 6.2, Spinning More Plasma 6.3 Features

KDE developers are wrapping up addressing initial fallout/regressions from the recent Plasma 6.2 desktop release as well as pushing ahead with more feature work for Plasma 6.3...
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Microsoft Open-Sources Rust-Written OpenHCL For Running Confidential Intel/AMD VMs lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

RollerCAN Unit: BLDC Motor Kit with Speed, Position, and Current Control for Precise Adjustments lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

Intel Working On Coreboot Support For Xeon 6 Platforms

Intel announced earlier this week ahead of the OCP Global Summit that they have partnered with the 9elements consulting firm for getting Coreboot up and running on Intel Xeon 6 "Granite Rapids" platforms...
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Linux Persistence Mechanisms and How to Find Them lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

Linux 6.13 Poised To Land Prep Patches Working Toward Proxy Execution

Years in the making has been the idea of Proxy Execution for the Linux kernel as a means of implementing priority inheritance by leveraging information from a task's scheduler context and its execution context. While the Proxy Execution patches themselves aren't yet queued for merging upstream, some prep patches look like they'll make it for the upcoming Linux 6.13…
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Linux Fixes Indirect Branch Predictor Barrier "IBPB" Handling For Older AMD CPUs

Merged today to Linux 6.12 Git were bug fixes to AMD's Indirect Branch Predictor Barrier (IBPB) handling that can be optionally used as part of the Retbleed and Speculative Return Stack Overflow (SRSO) mitigations on older AMD processors...
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