Linux GPIB Drivers Declared Stable - 53 Years After HP Introduced The Bus Merged to the mainline Linux kernel last year was GPIB drivers in the kernel's "staging" area. GPIB is the General Purpose Interface Bus launched by HP back in 1972 for lab equipment and more. After a year of cleaning up the code in the kernel's staging area, for Linux 6.19 the GPIB drivers have been promoted out of the staging area and into the Linux kernel proper. The Linux kernel now has stable driver support for this 8 Mbyte/s parallel bus that was introduced 53 years ago... https://www.phoronix.com/news/GPIB-De-Staged-Linux-6.19

Linux 6.19 Introduces PCIe Link Encryption & Device Authentication, AMD SEV-TIO Enabling One of the most exciting merges this weekend to the Linux 6.19 kernel is establishing the infrastructure for supporting PCI Express link encryption and device authentication. Multiple vendors are working on PCIe link encryption for their hardware while this initial pull begins laying the foundation of AMD SEV-TIO Trusted I/O support for the mainline kernel... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.19-PCIe-Link-Encrypt

Using AI To Modernize The Ubuntu Error Tracker Produced Some Code That Was "Plain Wrong" A week ago I wrote about AI being used to help modernize Ubuntu's Error Tracker. Microsoft GitHub Copilot was tasked to help adapt its Cassandra database usage to modern standards. It's worked in some areas but even for a rather straight forward task, some of the generated functions ended up being "plain wrong" according to the developer involved... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-Error-Tracker-AI-Error

Rust Drivers In Linux 6.19 Will Now Support... Module Parameters On top of the Rust driver core changes and other Rust code for Linux 6.19, the modules infrastructure for this new kernel version is also bringing some new code. Surprisingly, it's taken until now for Rust kernel modules/drivers to support module parameters as is common practice for passing different options when booting the kernel or manually loading kernel drivers with extra non-default options... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.19-Rust-Module-Params

Linux 6.19 Adds New Console Font To Better Handle Modern Laptops With HiDPI Displays Sent in for the Linux 6.19 merge window when it comes to the frame-buffer device "FBDEV" subsystem are just a set of "fixes" for FBDEV drivers and code clean-ups. But it does also include a new console font option for better supporting modern laptops with high density displays... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Terminus-10x18-Console-Linux

Flowblade Video Editor May Go Wayland-Only As Part Of GTK4 Port Flowblade 2.24 released today as the newest version of this open-source, non-linear video editing application. Flowblade 2.24 brings a number of refinements while also interesting is their commentary concerning the future with Wayland and GTK4 porting... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Flowblade-2.24-Released

Solaris 11.4 SRU 87 Released With New Security Features, GCC 15 For anyone still relying on Solaris in production or just nostalgic Solaris users from the grand Sun Microsystems days, Solaris 11.4 SRU 87 was released by Oracle this week as one of the heavier stable release updates in recent memory... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Oracle-Solaris-11.4-SRU-87

Venus Vulkan Driver Lands Mesh Shader Support In Mesa 26.0 Venus is the VirtIO-GPU driver that allows for Vulkan support within guest virtual machines permitting sufficient host driver support and other requirements in place with hypervisors like CrosVM and QEMU. The Venus driver now supports Vulkan's mesh shader capabilities and in turn advances the DXVK-Proton support for Linux gaming within VMs... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Venus-Vulkan-Mesh-Shader

Linux 6.19 GPU Driver Features: Color Pipeline API, Intel Xe3P, AMDGPU For GCN 1.0/1.1 The big set of kernel graphics driver features were merged today for the Linux 6.19 kernel. As usual there is a lot of new feature work on the AMD Radeon, Intel, and NVIDIA graphics drivers plus the smaller Arm/embedded graphics like now having initial Qualcomm Gen8 GPU support. Plus the growing number of accelerator "accel" drivers for NPUs / AI accelerators... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.19-Graphics-Drivers

Bcachefs Ready With Its Reconcile Feature As Biggest Change In Two Years The out-of-tree Bcachefs file-system is ready with its reconcile feature, which previously was known as "rebalance_v2", and what lead developer Kent Overstreet calls the biggest feature to this copy-on-write file-system in the last two years... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Bcachefs-Reconcile-Ready