At present, the number of hardware platforms that provide accelerated AV1 encoding on the market is still very limited, but as more hardware supporting this royalty-free video codec encoding/decoding comes on the market, the...
According to the mailing list, Intel engineers proposed to add a filter to Linux drivers so that they can set a list of drivers that are allowed or denied to be loaded by the...
Recently, Microsoft quietly put its Linux distribution CBL-Mariner on GitHub, which is a product developed by the Windows Subsystem Linux 2 team, mainly used for servers rather than desktops, to build its cloud infrastructure...
On July 14, 2021, security researcher @theflow published an analysis report on the CVE-2021-22555 Linux Netfilter privilege escalation vulnerability. This vulnerability was used in kCTF to attack the kubernetes pod container to achieve virtualization...
For younger computer players, it is estimated that there is not much idea about the IDE interface. Parallel ATA hard drives have also disappeared in the mainstream market for a long time. The PATA...
Following Linux 5.13, Linux 5.14 will also support the creation of secret memory areas. This function is implemented by memfd_secret(). memfd_secret() is a specialized system call, not an extension of memfd_create(), its purpose is...
On July 4, a revised set of patches was submitted to the Linux kernel mailing list. The patch provided support for using Rust as an auxiliary programming language in the Linux kernel. With Rust,...
According to the mailing list, NVIDIA engineers put forward a proposal to introduce a hardware timestamping engine (HTE) subsystem in the Linux kernel. Some devices have a built-in hardware timestamping engine, which can monitor...
According to the submission of KVM, Linux 5.14 will support a fast XMM hypercall of Hyper-V on KVM. The hypercall interface of Microsoft Hyper-V is a mechanism for calling guests and supports the concept...
At present, AMD’s PTDMA driver for Linux has been updated to version v10, hoping to eventually merge into the Linux mainline. PTDMA is a Linux driver released by AMD in September 2019 to support...
Canonical recently announced that Ubuntu 20.10 Groovy Gorilla will reach End Of Life on July 22, 2021. Since this version is a version between the long-term support (LTS) versions, it only has a nine-month...
The search engine giant is trying hard to use Rust code in the Linux kernel, which is a major technological change after only using the C language for decades. Google said on Thursday that...
At the end of 2019, Ubuntu Pro has landed on Amazon EC2 (Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud). Ubuntu Pro has ten years of software updates/security updates, real-time kernel patches, Canonical Landscape integration, and other features....
Last week, GitHub disclosed the details of an easily exploitable Linux vulnerability that can be used to elevate the user privileges of the target system to root privileges. The vulnerability is classified as high-risk...
According to the mailing list, Linux 5.13 will allow Lenovo to control the second fan on its ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 9. This patch comes from an independent user and enables the ThinkPad ACPI...
According to the mailing list, a new Hyper-V DRM display driver has been included in this week’s drm-misc-next PR and will be merged into the Linux 5.14 mainline. The Hyper-V DRM display driver was...
