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Kernel: Issues With Slop Noise, Linux Plumbers Conference, Virtualisation, and More
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It's FOSS ☛ While Torvalds Makes Peace With Hey Hi (AI) in Linux, Greg Kroah-Hartman Draws a Line (Sort of)
His new policy keeps Hey Hi (AI) patches out of drivers/staging, the tree meant for newcomers to learn kernel development.
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Linux Plumbers Conference (LPC) ☛ Linux Plumbers Conference: Microconference Topic CfP is coming to an End
This Friday (August 7th) is the last day to submit a topic to any of the Microconferences.
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Jeff Geerling ☛ Proxmox officially supports Arm, with some caveats
Install was easy, as the Ampere Altra uses UEFI / ACPI for its hardware, meaning Proxmox didn't have to tailor its ISO to specific platforms, like you have to do with Raspberry Pis and most SBCs using a Device Tree setup.
I just went into the BIOS, selected my USB stick with the official Proxmox VE 9.2 for ARM64 ISO flashed to it, and ran the graphical installer.
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Hackaday ☛ A Versatile PDP-11/70 Emulator
The emulator, named “Kek,” is quite capable, able to run Unix 5 up to an d including Unix 7 in multi-user mode, along with BSD 2.11 Unix depending on what it’s running on. It also supports classic hardware like RK05, RL02, RP06, and RP07 disks, the KW11-L line time clock, and the DC-11 serial line interface. The emulator can also run on a wide variety of platforms. It’s possible to run it on a standard Linux machine if so desired, or you can run it on BSD, MacOS, or Windows if so desired. Beyond that, you can even get it going on a Teensy 4.1 or an ESP32 if that’s more your jam. Modern microcontrollers are just that powerful that emulating a PDP-11/70 just isn’t a challenge anymore.
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Xen 4.22: Strengthening Open Source Virtualization for Cloud, Embedded, and Automotive Systems
Xen 4.22 adds modern hardware support, Arm improvements, continued RISC-V progress, Xenstore scalability updates, and a five-year security support lifecycle.