Linux 6.16: faster file systems, improved confidential memory, more Rust support
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Re: Linux 6.16: faster file systems, improved confidential memory, more Rust support
#2I'm still kind of surprised that Linus ended up allowing Rust into the kernel. Good, but surprising.
Looking forward to this release once it hits NixOS Unstable.
Re: Linux 6.16: faster file systems, improved confidential memory, more Rust support
#3I'm still kind of surprised that Linus ended up allowing Rust into the kernel. Good, but surprising. Looking forward to this release once it hits NixOS Unstable.
A surprise, to be sure, but a welcome one.
Re: Linux 6.16: faster file systems, improved confidential memory, more Rust support
#4Seems like Linus should be able to tap someone else to do 6.17 while he is on vacation
Re: Linux 6.16: faster file systems, improved confidential memory, more Rust support
#5I'm still kind of surprised that Linus ended up allowing Rust into the kernel. Good, but surprising. Looking forward to this release once it hits NixOS Unstable.
My understanding is its contained to the "edges", mostly in drivers and not in the "core" kernel.
Still interesting indeed.
Re: Linux 6.16: faster file systems, improved confidential memory, more Rust support
#6I'm still kind of surprised that Linus ended up allowing Rust into the kernel. Good, but surprising. Looking forward to this release once it hits NixOS Unstable.
On that note seems like after ruckus about Hector Martin's PRs not getting merged, things are calm but progressing.
Re: Linux 6.16: faster file systems, improved confidential memory, more Rust support
#7> If your Linux laptop doubles as a music player, another nice new feature is that you can now stream your audio over USB even while the rest of your system is asleep. That capability's been available in Android for a while, but now it's part of mainline Linux.
How does that work? You still need some program to actually play the music (mpv, Sotify, whatnot)? Or what am I misunderstanding? Unfortunately there are no details in the article, and an interwebz search doesn't really show anything.
Re: Linux 6.16: faster file systems, improved confidential memory, more Rust support
#8> If your Linux laptop doubles as a music player, another nice new feature is that you can now stream your audio over USB even while the rest of your system is asleep. That capability's been available in Android for a while, but now it's part of mainline Linux. How does that work? You still need some program to actually play the music (mpv, Sotify, whatnot)? Or what am I misunderstanding? Unfortunately there are no d…
Maybe it’s using Wake-on-LAN where the network interface is alive while the rest of the system is dormant? Perhaps the music stream is encoded in magic packets?
Re: Linux 6.16: faster file systems, improved confidential memory, more Rust support
#9> If your Linux laptop doubles as a music player, another nice new feature is that you can now stream your audio over USB even while the rest of your system is asleep. That capability's been available in Android for a while, but now it's part of mainline Linux.
I thought Android did that by just turning off all but one CPU core and suspend all processes not required for streaming + bluetooth?
I really can't imagine how else that would work, other than essentially giving the whole audio file to the Bluetooth chip and let it handle streaming on its own... but I've never heard of a Bluetooth chipset capable of that, much less bluez actually being usable enough.
Re: Linux 6.16: faster file systems, improved confidential memory, more Rust support
#10> If your Linux laptop doubles as a music player, another nice new feature is that you can now stream your audio over USB even while the rest of your system is asleep. That capability's been available in Android for a while, but now it's part of mainline Linux. How does that work? You still need some program to actually play the music (mpv, Sotify, whatnot)? Or what am I misunderstanding? Unfortunately there are no d…
Maybe it’s using Wake-on-LAN where the network interface is alive while the rest of the system is dormant? Perhaps the music stream is encoded in magic packets?
I found [1], which says "For Qualcomm hardware where the USB audio can be offloaded to a dedicated audio DSP for handling the transfers to the USB host controller, this lessens the work of the main CPU cores and can help with power management so those CPU cores can hit lower power states or tackle other work. Other hardware vendors will hopefully follow suit in their support for the upstream support around USB audio offloading."
So I think that it doesn't do anything for the average Linux laptop, and is mostly intended for certain (mobile) hardware?
[1]: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.16-USB-Audio-Offload