Paragon Software’s NTFS3 kernel driver has been submitted to the Linux-next branch, and Linux 5.15 may use this new driver. As early as last year, Paragon Software announced that it wanted to merge the...
In the Linux 5.15 merge window, a set of Kernfs performance improvement patches are merged through the driver core PR, which can solve the problem of slow booting of the Linux kernel for large...
The mailing list shows that Intel has submitted a patch to enable device memory support for its DG2 graphics card. The DG2 graphics card is now code-named “Alchemist“, which is the first generation product...
The mailing list shows that the DRM/VC4 driver of the Raspberry Pi will support 4K@60Hz display output. For some time, Maxime Ripard has been working on improving the DRM/VC4 driver so that it can...
According to the mailing list, Ubuntu 21.10 plans to release its systemd package using a unified cgroup hierarchy (cgroups v2) by default. Cgroups (control groups) is a mechanism provided by the Linux kernel that...
According to the proposal, Fedora 35 may support restarting user services as part of the rpm upgrade. Generally speaking, a running Fedora system has a main systemd instance (PID 1), some running system services,...
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...
