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…Those interested can find the new Cache Aware Scheduling v4 patches on the kernel mailing list . Hopefully this Cache Aware Scheduling functionality will manage to make it into the mainline Linux kernel…
In addition to RISC-V discontinuing its eXecute In Place 'XIP' kernel support for Linux 7.1, there is an optimized strnlen() function coming for Linux 7.1 on RISC-V as…
Linux 7.1 Adds New Child Auto-Reap & PIDFD Auto-Kill Flags For clone3() Written by Michael Larabel in Linux Kernel on 15 April 2026 at 08:45 AM EDT. 1 Comment…
Natalie Vock of Valve's Linux graphics driver team primarily working on the RADV Vulkan driver has come up with a new interesting creation: patches to the Linux kernel and KDE for…
Linux 7.1 Picks Up The MMC Changes After Rejected By Linus In Linux 7.0 Written by Michael Larabel in Linux Kernel on 16 April 2026 at 06:12 AM EDT…
One of the last feature pulls merged by Linus Torvalds prior to tagging Linux 7.1-rc1 this weekend were some power utility updates for those tools living within the kernel source…
…The MKISS code hasn't seen much driver activity since the original Git import of the Linux kernel more than twenty years ago. Posted to the Linux kernel mailing list this Sunday…
…Similar to Fedora's permanent updates exception for the Linux kernel that allows new major Linux kernel releases to be shipped down to stable Fedora versions as updates, their Mesa packages now…
AMDXDNA Driver Introducing Per-Process Memory Usage Queries In Linux 7.1 Written by Michael Larabel in Linux Kernel on 29 March 2026 at 06:51 AM EDT. 2 Comments Sent out…
…7 Comments For those with fond memories of the AMD Geode x86 embedded processors, the Linux kernel is set to orphan these since discontinued and obsolete CPUs. Following Linux beginning to phase…