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Kernel: OPNFV, Android, Ryzen, Linux 4.14 and Linux 4.15

By Roy Schestowitz Created 07/09/2017 - 11:53pm Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Thursday 7th of September 2017 11:53:52 PM Filed under Linux [1]

The Role of OPNFV in Network Transformation [2]

The Understanding OPNFV book takes an in-depth look at network functions (NFV) and provides a comprehensive overview of The Linux Foundation?s OPNFV project. In this article, we provide some excerpts from the book and discuss some organizational elements required to make your NFV transformation successful. These best practices stress how both technical and non-technical elements are required, with non-technical often being more critical.

Android Oreo Adds Requirements and New Hardening Features[3]

The Linux kernel continues to add security protections so developers don?t have to build them on their own. As a result, one of the first steps security experts recommend for protecting against embedded threats is to work with the latest possible kernel release and then regularly update field devices. Now that Android is getting long in the tooth -- it was nine years ago this month that Sergey Brin and Larry Page rollerbladed onto the stage to announce the debut of the flagship HTC G1 phone -- more and more Android devices are being attacked due to out-of-date Linux kernels. To address the problem before it adds to Android?s substantial challenge with malware generated from rogue or unprotected apps, has announced new requirements in Android 8.0 (?Oreo?) to build on Linux kernels no older than kernel 4.4. There's Now A Patch Adding Ryzen / AMD Zen Temperature Support On Linux [4]

Linux hwmon developer Guenter Roeck has posted a patch adding support for Family 17h (Ryzen/Threadripper/Epyc) temperature monitoring support to the existing k10temp Linux kernel driver.

Just like the separate and just-covered FreeBSD Zen thermal monitoring patch, adding the Zen monitoring support to Linux was quite simple, just patched the existing AMD Family 10h+ temp driver as opposed to needing a new driver, and was just 16 lines of new code.

New Media Drivers Ready For The Linux 4.14 Kernel [5]

Mauro Carvalho Chehab has sent in a big pull request of the media subsystem updates for the Linux 4.14 kernel. This time around there are multiple new drivers yielding around a net addition of around 30k lines to the Linux kernel.

New DRM Code For Testing, Material For Linux 4.15 [6]

Intel developers have published a new round of drm-intel-testing updates for those developers or enthusiasts wishing to begin testing this in-progress code for the Intel (DRM) driver with this code eventually being queued for the Linux 4.15 cycle.

New material for testing in this Intel DRM kernel tree are more Cannonlake graphics workarounds, infoframe refactoring, the kernel bits needed so the Intel Mesa driver can expose ARB_timer_query, restoring GPU clock boosts on missed page-flip vblanks, and a variety of fixes and other code improvements.

Adreno A3xx Blobs Added To Linux-Firmware.Git [7]

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Links: [1] http://www.tuxmachines.org/taxonomy/term/63 [2] https://www.linuxfoundation.org/blog/the-role-of-opnfv-in-network-transformation/ [3] https://www.linux.com/news/2017/9/android-oreo-adds-linux-kernel-requirements-and-new-hardening-features [4] http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=AMD-Zen-k10temp-Patch [5] http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-4.14-Media-Updates [6] http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Intel-DRM-Testing-Post-4.14 [7] http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Adreno-A3xx-Firmware-Blobs