AMD Reveals Latest Plans For Open-Source openSIL With Replacing AGESA, Zen 6 Milestone

Last year to much excitement in our community was the new AMD project announcement of openSIL as an open-source CPU silicon initialization project that is an advancement for open-source firmware and to eventually replace AMD's AGESA across both client and server processors. This week an exciting new update on AMD OpenSIL was shared and that they are st…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-openSIL-September-2024

Oracle Rewrites Libresource For Standardized API Of Linux System Resource Information

Back in 2018 Oracle introduced Libresource as a standardized API for accessing system resource information around memory / network / device statistics and other metrics. Libresource v2 was announced this week as largely a rewrite of the project...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Oracle-Libresource-v2

Updated Patches Allow Compiling The Linux Kernel From Within macOS

Back in 2022 were a set of patches that allowed compiling the ARM64 Linux kernel from Apple macOS hosts. The intent was for developers just wantign to do some build/smoke testing from under an Apple Silicon device running macOS to see at least any kernel changes are successfully compiling on macOS with its LLVM/Clang-based toolchain. An updated form of those patches …
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Building-Linux-Kernel-macOS-Hos