Danilo Krummrich of Redhat confirms start of Nova, a Rust-based GSP-only driver for Nvidia GPUs ( lore.kernel.org )
Linux 6.8 released ( lore.kernel.org )
Hans Reiser on ReiserFS deprecation ( lore.kernel.org )
Binder (Android's core IPC) Rust rewrite posted to LKML ( lore.kernel.org )
Performance is basically the same (in microbenchmarks), they went as far as preserving the use of red black trees for an apples to apples comparison, but it’s going to improve security as binder runs inside every process....
[Nouveau] [PATCH 00/44] drm/nouveau: initial support for GSP-RM 535.54.04 (and Ada GPUs) ( lore.kernel.org )
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/5142305...
[Nouveau] [PATCH 00/44] drm/nouveau: initial support for GSP-RM 535.54.04 (and Ada GPUs) ( lore.kernel.org )
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/5142305...
Linux file system developer: we're severely under-resourced ( lore.kernel.org )
I’ve said this previously, and I’ll say it again: we’re severely under-resourced. Not just XFS, the whole fsdevel community. As a developer and later a maintainer, I’ve learnt the hard way that there is a very large amount of non-coding work is necessary to build a good filesystem. There’s enough not-really-coding work...
Thomas Gleixner aims for "decrapification" of Linux APIC code, longs for removing 32-bit code ( lore.kernel.org )
Thomas Glexiner of Linutronix (now owned by Intel) has posted 58 patches for review into the Linux kernel, but they’re only the beginning! Most of the patches are just first steps at doing more major renovations into what he calls “decrapification”. He says:...
[PATCH v1 00/17] btrfs: add encryption feature ( lore.kernel.org )
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/1840134...