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This merge adds the kernel-side bits around mitigating AMD’s Speculative Return Address Stack (RAS) overflow vulnerability for Zen 3 and Zen 4. See this earlier article for details on this AMD INCEPTION disclosure....

Direct link to the Medium post being benchmarked: medium.com/…/here-are-some-possibly-useful-tweaks…

Finally getting some (closer to) mainstream video cards from AMD. Still feels overpriced but a lot better than $750 for a 7900xt.

Moving forward the aim is for Ubuntu kernel updates to be done on a 4-week update cycle while having a follow-on release at the 2-week midpoint to provide any critical/high CVE fixes or any other critical fixes. In effect, a kernel update every two weeks but that mid-point release will be reserved just for more urgent items that...

tl;dr WIP Vulkan support for old HD 6000 cards (late 2000s/early 2010s) developed by dev that also works on Xenia and implemented the complicated fragment shader interlock extension used by some emulators

Good grief....

Last month The RADV ray-tracing pipelines support was enabled by default but then later disabled for VanGogh APUs, notably the Steam Deck. Now though with the latest ray-tracing code in Mesa 23.2-devel the RADV driver is no longer blocking the support for VanGogh.

We may all be in trouble

Archinstall 2.6.1 key features include allowing a custom number of parallel downloads to be specified, the option to use Ly, an ncurses-like display manager, the option to use Slick-Greeter with LightDM, and adding Kitty/Dolphin/Wofi to Hyprland....

Bcachefs making progress towards getting included in the kernel. My dream of having a Linux native RAID5 capable filesystem is getting closer to reality.