Learning PF_RING and netmap

Linux Plumbers Conference: System Boot and Security Microconference Accepted into 2021 Linux Plumbers Conference
We are pleased to announce that the System Boot and Security Microconference has been accepted into the 2021 Linux Plumbers Conference. This microconference brings together those that are interested in the firmware, bootloaders, system boot and security. The events around last year’s BootHole showed how crucial platform initialization is for the overall syst […]
Linux Plumbers Conference: Kernel Dependability and Assurance Microconference Accepted into 2021 Linux Plumbers Conference
We are pleased to announce that the Kernel Dependability and Assurance Microconference has been accepted into the 2021 Linux Plumbers Conference. Linux development is producing kernels at an ever increasing rate, and at the same time with arguably increasing software quality. The process of kernel development has been adapting to handle the increasing number […]
Paul E. Mc Kenney: Confessions of a Recovering Proprietary Programmer, Part XVIII: Preventing Involuntary Generosity
I recently learned that all that is required for someone to take out a loan in some random USA citizen's name is that citizen's full name, postal address, email address, date of birth, and social security number. If you are above a certain age, all of these are for all intents and purposes a matter of public record. If you are younger, then your so […]
Linux Plumbers Conference: RISC-V Microconference Accepted into 2021 Linux Plumbers Conference
We are pleased to announce that the RISC-V Microconference has been accepted into the 2021 Linux Plumbers Conference. The RISC-V software eco-system is gaining momentum at breakneck speed with three new Linux development platforms available this year. The new platforms bring new issues to deal with. Last year’s meetup achieved the following: glibc upstreamin […]
Pete Zaitcev: MinIO liberates your storage from rebalancing
MinIO posted a blog entry a few days ago where the bragged about adding capacity without a need to re-balance. First, they went into a full marketoid mode, whipping up the fear: Rebalancing a massive distributed storage system can be a nightmare. There’s nothing worse than adding a storage node and watching helplessly as user response time increases while th […]
Linux Plumbers Conference: Open Printing Microconference Accepted into 2021 Linux Plumbers Conference
We are pleased to announce that the Open Printing Microconference has been accepted into the 2021 Linux Plumbers Conference. Over the years OpenPrinting has been actively working on improving and modernizing the way we print in Linux. We have been working on multiple areas of printing and scanning. Especially driverless print and scan technologies have helpe […]
Dave Airlie (blogspot): llvmpipe/lavapipe: anisotropic texture filtering
In order to expose OpenGL 4.6 the last missing feature in llvmpipe is anisotropic texture filtering. Adding support for this also allows lavapipe expose the Vulkan samplerAnisotropy feature.I started writing anisotropic support > 6 months ago. At the time we were trying to deprecate the classic swrast driver, and someone pointed out it had support for ani […]
Linux Plumbers Conference: GNU Tools Track Added to Linux Plumbers Conference 2021
We are very excited to announce that also for 2021 our friends from the GNU Toolchain are going to join the Linux Plumbers Conference with an additional track: the GNU Tools track. The track will run for the 5 days of the conference. For more information about what types of proposals are accepted, please see the GNU Tools track wiki page. The call for papers […]
Linux Plumbers Conference: VFIO/IOMMU/PCI Microconference Accepted into 2021 Linux Plumbers Conference
We are pleased to announce that the VFIO/IOMMU/PCI Microconference has been accepted into the 2021 Linux Plumbers Conference. Today’s high speed components commonly utilize the devices that implement the PCI interconnect specification and the system IOMMUs that provide memory and access control between the devices and the system resources. The features of th […]
Matthew Garrett: Does free software benefit from ML models being derived works of training data?
Github recently announced Copilot, a machine learning system that makes suggestions for you when you're writing code. It's apparently trained on all public code hosted on Github, which means there's a lot of free software in its training set. Github assert that the output of Copilot belongs to the user, although they admit that it may occasion […]