Linus Torvalds Comes Out Against "Completely Broken" x86_64 Feature Levels
5 December 2024 - No Feature Levels In The Kernel

With the new Linux kernel patches posted yesterday for cleaning up x86 32-bit kernels on x86_64 CPUs as part of that patch series was introducing new Kconfig build options around the x86_64 micro-architecture feature levels. It turns out though that Torvalds is completely against how the x86_64 feature levels are handled by the compiler toolchain folks and doesn't want to see it invading the kernel.

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Linux 6.12 Officially Promoted To Being An LTS Kernel
5 December 2024 - Linux 6.12 LTS

Linux stable maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman officially designated Linux 6.12 as this year's long-term support (LTS) kernel version.

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MGLRU Sees New Performance Optimizations For Linux
6 December 2024 - Multi-Gen LRU

It's been a while since there have been any new advancements or performance optimizations to talk about for Multi-Gen LRU (MGLRU) that was upstreamed to the Linux kernel two years ago as a very exciting kernel innovation. But that's changing now with some fresh performance optimizations being worked on for the MGLRU code.

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Broadcom BCM2712 MOPLET Graphics For Linux 6.14, Other Early drm-misc-next Code
6 December 2024 - drm-misc-next

While the Linux v6.13 merge window has been over for less than one week, already the first pull requests of new feature code are being submitted to DRM-Next for queuing the display/graphics driver changes ahead of the Linux 6.14 merge window in two months.

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Magisk Stable Update
2024-12-07
#Magisk

Release tag:
Magisk v28.1

Assets:
Magisk-v28.1.apk (11.2 MB)

Magisk Canary Update
2024-12-07
#MagiskCanary

Build version:
28101

Changelog:
https://github.com/topjohnwu/Magisk/releases/download/canary-28101/notes.md

Download:
app-release.apk

Foobox Update
2024-12-07
#Foobox

Release tag:
v7.38

Assets:
foobox_x64.cn.v7.38-1.exe (15.0 MB)
foobox_x86.cn.v7.38-1.exe (14.9 MB)

More Kernel Bitrot: Old & Busted UltraSPARC T2 "Niagara 2" SPU Driver Slated For Removal
7 December 2024 - Sun Niagara 2 Days...

Following 107k lines of old driver code within the staging area of the kernel removed for Linux 6.13, over in the crypto space they are looking at some cleaning as well with plans raised to remove the Stream Processing Unit (SPU) driver for the old Sun Niagara 2, the Sun UltraSPARC T2 and this SPU was also found in the UltraSPARC T3 as well.

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Raspberry Pi4 bootloader EEPROM Stable Update
2024-12-08
#RaspberryPi #eeprom

Build date:
20241207

Changelog:
https://github.com/raspberrypi/rpi-eeprom/blob/master/firmware-2711/release-notes.md

Download:
pieeprom-2024-12-07.bin

Size:
512.0 KB

Linux 6.13-rc2 To Workaround Buggy Intel Lunar Lake Leading To Responsiveness Issues
8 December 2024 - Broken MONITOR

Sent out this morning were the "x86/urgent" updates ahead of Linux 6.13-rc2 due out later today. There are x86 fixes for both Intel and AMD processors this week. Most notable though is fixing some buggy Intel Core Ultra "Lunar Lake" behavior that could lead to responsiveness/delay issues due to the MONITOR implementation being buggy/broken.

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Linux EFI Zboot Abandoning "Compression Library Museum", Focusing On Gzip & Zstd
8 December 2024 - EFI Zboot

The Linux kernel EFI Zboot code for carrying the Linux kernel image for EFI systems in compressed form is doing away with its "compression library museum" of offering Gzip, LZ4, LZMA, LZO, XZ, and Zstd compression options to instead just focus on Gzip and Zstd compression support.

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Linux 6.13-rc2 Released With An Initial Batch Of Fixes
8 December 2024 - Linux 6.13-rc2

Linus Torvalds just issued Linux 6.13-rc2 with an initial serving of bug/regression fixes following last week's Linux 6.13-rc1 release that capped off the feature-packed Linux 6.13 merge window.

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Scrcpy (screen copy) Update
2024-12-10
#Scrcpy

Release tag:
scrcpy v3.1

Assets:
scrcpy-linux-x86_64-v3.1.tar.gz (12.2 MB)
scrcpy-macos-aarch64-v3.1.tar.gz (8.4 MB)
scrcpy-macos-x86_64-v3.1.tar.gz (9.1 MB)
scrcpy-server-v3.1 (88.5 KB)
scrcpy-win32-v3.1.zip (6.3 MB)
scrcpy-win64-v3.1.zip (6.6 MB)
SHA256SUMS.txt (556 bytes)
SHA256SUMS.txt.asc (833 bytes)

Google Clang Prebuilt Update
#clang

Commit

Download tar.gz:
clang 19.0.1 (based on r536225) from build 12755234

Perf Support For 2,048 CPU Cores Is Becoming Not Enough - Patches Bump Kernel Limit
10 December 2024 - 4,096 CPUs

Currently the Linux kernel's "perf" performance monitoring subsystem has a limit on 2,048 CPU cores for its CPU map that is set by the MAX_NR_CPUS value. But that's becoming not enough in today's high core count era that patches are looking to raise it to a 4,096 CPU core limit by default.

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New Linux Patch Establishes "CONFIG_X86_64_NATIVE" For -march=native Kernel Builds
10 December 2024 - Optimized Kernel Builds

Last week I wrote about Linux patches cleaning up x86 32-bit kernel builds for x86_64 CPUs. The new iteration of those patches were sent out today, including the addition of a patch adding the CONFIG_X86_64_NATIVE Kconfig tunable for enabling "-march=native" kernel builds to cater your optimized kernel compilation for the CPU on which you are building the kernel.

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Shamiko Update
2024-12-13
#Shamiko

Release tag:
Shamiko v1.2

Assets:
Shamiko-v1.2-367-release.zip (5.1 MB)