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DigiPort Pocket PC Built with Raspberry Pi CM4

Kickstarter recently featured the DigiPort, a pocket-sized, open-source computer that transforms any HDMI-compatible screen into a fully functional PC. Powered by a Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4, it provides a versatile solution for various tasks, including programming, gaming, and multimedia streaming.

Coin-sized Development Board Based on RISC-V CH32V203 Microcontroller, Priced at $6.50

The LANA TNY by Phyx is a compact development board featuring the WCH CH32V203 RISC-V microcontroller. Similar in size to the Adafruit QT Py and Seeed Studio XIAO, it offers additional SMD pins for expanded input/output capabilities and includes a built-in WS2811-compatible LED output.

(Updated) Quartz64 Zero: A Low-Cost SBC Featuring Rockchip RK3566T with 64-bit Arm and 32-bit RISC-V CPUs

Pine64 recently introduced the Quartz64 Zero, a compact and economical single board computer featuring the Rockchip RK3566T SoC. Designed for both hobbyists and commercial applications, this board offers scalable features and a guaranteed long-term supply.

(Updated) Pine64 Unveils Oz64: An Upcoming SBC Featuring Sophgo SG2000 SoC and Wi-Fi 6

The Pine64 Oz64 is an upcoming single-board computer that integrates 64-bit RISC-V cores and 64-bit ARM cores with the Sophgo SG2000 System-on-Chip. This cost-effective device offers fast wireless communication capabilities with Wi-Fi 6 and optional Power-over-Ethernet support.

PINE64 Unveils StarPro64 RISC-V SBC with EIC7700X SoC

The StarPro64 is the latest addition to PINE64’s line of RISC-V-based hardware, continuing their commitment to the architecture over the past three years. Key features include support for up to 32GB of RAM, dual Gigabit Ethernet ports, and more.

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Ardour 8.8 Open-Source DAW Released with Various Bug Fixes and Improvements

Ardour 8.8 comes only two weeks after Ardour 8.7 as a hot-fix update addressing some important issues like playhead moving beyond loop range, sample-rate display rounding for 22.05kHz, playback of sessions with low sample rate, XML syntax for AKAI MPK mini mk3’s MIDI binding map, and a possible deadlock when using PSL extension for sends.

NetworkManager 1.50 Adds Support for Configuring Wi-Fi Channel Width in AP Mode

NetworkManager 1.50 is here four months after NetworkManager 1.48 and introduces support matching an OVS system interface by MAC address, the ability to specify a system OVS interface by MAC address, support for multiple gateways for a single network, and support for configuring the channel width in AP mode for Wi-Fi.

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Linus Torvalds Announces First Linux Kernel 6.12 Release Candidate

posted by Marius Nestor on Sep 29, 2024,
updated Oct 03, 2024

Some of the highlights of Linux kernel 6.12 include Clang support (including LTO) for nolibc, support for the cpuidle tool to display the residency value of cpuidle states for a clearer and more detailed view of idle state information when using cpuidle-info, support for NVIDIA's virtual command queue implementation for SMMUv3, and SWIG bindings for libcpupower making easier to write scripts that use and extend libcpupower's functionality.

Also new is support for translating normalized error addresses reported by an AMD memory controller into system physical addresses using a UEFI mechanism called platform runtime mechanism (PRM), simplified loading of microcode patches on AMD Zen and newer CPUs by using the family, model, and stepping encoded in the patch revision number, file-backed mount support for the EROFS file system, and the final conversions to the new Intel VFM CPU model matching macros.

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Linux Kernel 6.12 RC1 Released: PREEMPT_RT Mainlined and Sched_ext Merged

Linus Torvalds announced the release of Linux Kernel 6.12 RC1. Kernel 6.12 RC1 brings important new features like PREEMPT_RT and sched_ext.

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Kernel prepatch 6.12-rc1

Linus has released 6.12-rc1 and closed the merge window for this release.
Despite conference travel (both for me and several maintainers), things seemed to go mostly fairly normally. There's a couple of notable new features in here: For one thing, PREEMPT_RT is now mainlined and enabled as a config option (you do need to enable "EXPERT" to get the question). For another, sched_ext also got merged.

Now outside the paywall:

The 6.12 merge window begins

As of this writing, 6,778 non-merge changesets have been pulled into the mainline kernel for the 6.12 release — over half of the work that had been staged in linux-next prior to the opening of the merge window. There has been a lot of refactoring and cleanup work this time around, but also some significant changes. Read on for a summary of the first half of the 6.12 merge window.

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