📰 Arm Preparing The Linux Kernel For 128-bit Page Table Entries "FEAT_D128"
A new core infrastructure improvement for the Linux kernel on ARM being worked on is enabling 128-bit page table entries (PTEs) with FEAT_D128 as a new optional feature of Armv9.3 and later...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Arm-Linux-FEAT-D128-Patches
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📰 Arm Preparing The Linux Kernel For 128-bit Page Table Entries "FEAT_D128"
A new core infrastructure improvement for the Linux kernel on ARM being worked on is enabling 128-bit page table entries (PTEs) with FEAT_D128 as a new optional feature of Armv9.3 and later...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Arm-Linux-FEAT-D128-Patches
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📰 IBM Updates Linux Patches For Introducing ARM64 KVM Virtualization On s390
At the start of April was the peculiar announcement of IBM collaborating with Arm on "dual architecture" hardware. The initial fruits of that collaboration at least are Linux kernel patches for enabling ARM64 virtualization acceleration on IBM Z servers. As we approach the end of the month, IBM has now posted a second iteration of those patches for enabling AArch64 software to run on IBM s390 via the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM)...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/ARM64-On-s390-IBM-Z-v2
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📰With Linux 7.1 The Mainline Kernel Now Supports Real-Time "RT" On ARM
The Linux 7.1 mainline kernel will allow building a real-time "PREEMPT_RT" kernel for the ARM architecture with no longer needing any out-of-tree patches...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-ARM-RT
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📰 Linux 7.1 Lands Workaround For Arm C1-Pro Erratum
Merged yesterday to the Linux 7.1 kernel is a workaround for an Arm C1-Pro CPU hardware bug around its Scalable Matrix Extension implementation...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-Arm-C1-Pro-Fix
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📰Arm Preparing Live Firmware Activation Support For Linux
A new platform feature being worked on by Arm engineers for the Linux kernel is Live Firmware Activation to allow for updated firmware components to be deployed without requiring a system reboot...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Arm-Live-Firmware-Activation
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📰 ARM NEON Accelerated CRC64 Optimization Shows Nearly 6x Improvement
A patch posted today to the Linux kernel mailing list provides an ARM64-optimized CRC64-NVMe implementation for nearly a 6x improvement on modern Arm SoCs...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/ARM-NEON-CRC64-6x
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📰 Kernel 6.19: GPU, SoC, and Rust improvements
Collabora continues to be a key contributor to the Linux kernel, with 125 patches from 21 developers! Highlights include Arm Mali GPU improvements, expanded MediaTek and Rockchip SoC support, Rust integration progress, and new Rockchip video capture functionality.
🔗 Source: https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/kernel-619-gpu-soc-rust-improvements.html
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📰 Dirty Frag gets a sequel as Fragnesia hands Linux attackers root-level access
Fresh kernel flaw comes with public exploit code and continues ugly run of highly reliable privilege escalation bugs tied to memory and page-cache handling.
🔗 Source: https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/05/14/dirty-frag-gets-a-sequel-as-fragnesia-hands-linux-attackers-root-level-access/5240270
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📰 New AMDGPU Driver Pull Request For Linux 7.2 Preps For HDML 2.1 FRL
Sent out on Wednesday was the latest AMDGPU/AMDKFD driver pull request of new feature code ready for DRM-Next as the staging area ahead of the upcoming Linux 7.2 kernel. This doesn't yet land the HDMI 2.1 enablement work that's finally been taking place but it is preparing for that with the FRL register headers now in place as part of this merge...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-AMDGPU-FRL-Regs
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📰Fragnesia Is Yet Another Local Privilege Escalation Flaw in Linux Kernel
Fragnesia is a new local privilege escalation flaw in the Linux kernel that may lead to local privilege escalation. Patch now!
🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/fragnesia-is-yet-another-local-privilege-escalation-flaw-in-linux-kernel
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📰Fragnesia Made Public As Latest Linux Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Following last week's disclosure of the Dirty Frag vulnerability for the Linux kernel, which only finished being patched up in mainline on Monday, Fragnesia is now public as a similar local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerability...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Fragnesia
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