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The Error Detection And Correction (EDAC) subsystem updates for Linux 6.8 have been submitted for dealing with ECC reporting under Linux and the other error detection/recovery driver updates.

Ingo Molnar sent in all of the scheduler changes this morning for the now-open Linux 6.8 merge window.

The x86 CPU pull request is ready for the Linux 6.8 kernel and besides adding new AMD Zen feature flags easily isolating different CPU generations, there is also an AMD CPU optimization to avoid an unnecessary MFENCE+LFENCE barrier.

In addition to announcing the Ryzen 8000G series and new Ryzen 5000 series processors, AMD kicked off CES 2024 in Las Vegas by announcing the Radeon RX 7600 XT as their newest RDNA3 discrete graphics card for gamers. The Radeon RX 7600 XT aims to offer a great 1080p gaming experience with 16GB of GDDR6 video memory and pricing starting out at $329 USD. The AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT features 32 compute units, 64 AI accelerators, 16GB of GDDR6 video memory on a 128-bit bus, 32MB Infinity cache, 2.47GH...

The Intel engineers enabling next-generation Arrow Lake processors for Linux have largely been just adding new device IDs and other mostly minor changes over current Meteor Lake processors

For the execve() system call to execute a program by pathname, the Linux 6.8 kernel is set to land a new optimization to 'dramatically' speed-up PATH searches.

Landing in Mesa 24.0-devel this week alongside other exciting changes is some pending work for enhancing VKD3D-Proton and AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 3 (FSR 3) support for the RADV Vulkan driver.

The Linux 6.7 kernel is expected to be released as stable later today following the one week delay due to the end-of-year holidays

In preparing for the GNOME 46 Alpha release, this morning the '46.alpha' builds of GNOME Shell and Mutter were published.

Linux 6.7 should be released later today as the first stable kernel of 2024