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Miguel Ojeda who leads the “Rust for Linux” effort of integrating Rust programming language support into the Linux kernel has already submitted his pull request of planned feature updates for the upcoming Linux 6.6 cycle. With Linux 6.5 there was the upgrade to the Rust 1.68.2 toolchain and for Linux 6.6 comes another upgrade to …

SUSE engineer Nikolay Borisov sent out a set of patches today for “ia32_disabled” that would allow disabling of support for x86 32-bit processes from running on x86_64 Linux systems. As a first step this would be a boot-time option when “ia32_disabled” is set. SUSE is interested in the ability for disabling the IA32 compatibility layer …

Further adding to the excitement of the upcoming Linux 6.4 merge window is the mainline kernel seeing the Device Tree (DT) additions for Apple’s current M2 devices including the MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, and Mac Mini systems. The upstream kernel still has more work to go around the M1/M2 support compared to the downstream state …

While the VGA_Switcheroo has long been part of the Linux kernel for laptops with hybrid (dual GPU) graphics for switching between the GPUs on platforms with a hardware mux switch, this current API has been found to be ineffective for the latest laptops like those with “NVIDIA Advanced Optimus” support. Thus NVIDIA is working on …