Linux kernel security work
http://www.kroah.com/log/blog/2026/01/02/linux-kernel-security-work/
#HackerNews #Linux #Kernel #Security #Open #Source #Cybersecurity #Tech #News
Jan :rust: :ferris:
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Wanna know what the #Linux core developers discussed recently on this years #kernel #maintainers summit?
Then check out the great @lwn coverage from the event now freely available:
https://lwn.net/Articles/1049982/
It includes:
* Toward a policy for machine-learning tools in kernel development – https://lwn.net/Articles/1049830/
* Best practices for linux-next – https://lwn.net/Articles/1050027/
* The state of the kernel #Rust experiment (aka the session where it was decided that the experimental stamp is coming off) – https://lwn.net/Articles/1050174/
* Better development tools for the kernel – https://lwn.net/Articles/1050177/
* Development-process discussions – https://lwn.net/Articles/1050179/
Wanna know what the #Linux core developers discussed recently on this years #kernel #maintainers summit?
Then check out the great @lwn coverage from the event now freely available:
https://lwn.net/Articles/1049982/
It includes:
* Toward a policy for machine-learning tools in kernel development – https://lwn.net/Articles/1049830/
* Best practices for linux-next – https://lwn.net/Articles/1050027/
* The state of the kernel #Rust experiment (aka the session where it was decided that the experimental stamp is coming off) – https://lwn.net/Articles/1050174/
* Better development tools for the kernel – https://lwn.net/Articles/1050177/
* Development-process discussions – https://lwn.net/Articles/1050179/
devSJR :python: :rstats:
boosted
Richtlinien für Machine Learning im Kernel diskutiert
https://linuxnews.de/richtlinien-fuer-machine-learning-im-kernel/ #kernel #KI #ai #LLMs #linux #linuxnews
Richtlinien für Machine Learning im Kernel diskutiert
https://linuxnews.de/richtlinien-fuer-machine-learning-im-kernel/ #kernel #KI #ai #LLMs #linux #linuxnews
When a driver challenges the kernel's assumptions
http://miod.online.fr/software/openbsd/stories/udl.html
#HackerNews #driver #challenges #kernel #assumptions #openbsd #software #development #technology
🦾 Linux Kernel: No GPU left behind
｢ If Linux 6.19 switching from the Radeon legacy to AMDGPU kernel drivers for the GCN 1.0/1.1 GPUs for those ~13 year old GPUs isn't nostalgic enough for you, here's something a bit more nostalgic this holiday season: fresh open-source driver commits to the Radeon R300g driver for supporting those 23 year old ATI R300 GPUs up through the 20 year old R500 class graphics processors ｣
Jan :rust: :ferris:
boosted
Rust in the Linux kernel is here to stay!
To celebrate this event, we sat down with Danilo Krummrich, Linux kernel maintainer and Rust for Linux core team member about the new NOVA driver and how Rust makes hardware-abstractions safer.
We talk about the typestate pattern, custom allocators, pin-init for self-referential structures, and why code that compiles in Rust actually works instead of causing kernel panics.
Jan :rust: :ferris:
boosted
Linux kernel developers have officially approved Rust as a full programming language alongside C and assembler, ending its experimental phase and marking a shift toward safer, more modern code. 🦀
Key subsystems still need bindings, but work is progressing, including a Rust-based Nvidia graphics driver. 🛠️
🔗 https://www.heise.de/en/news/Linux-Kernel-Rust-Support-Officially-Approved-11109808.html
#TechNews #Linux #Rust #OpenSource #Kernel #Security #Developers #Programming #Innovation #Systems #FOSS #Technology #Code #Engineering #Nvidia
Linux kernel developers have officially approved Rust as a full programming language alongside C and assembler, ending its experimental phase and marking a shift toward safer, more modern code. 🦀
Key subsystems still need bindings, but work is progressing, including a Rust-based Nvidia graphics driver. 🛠️
🔗 https://www.heise.de/en/news/Linux-Kernel-Rust-Support-Officially-Approved-11109808.html
#TechNews #Linux #Rust #OpenSource #Kernel #Security #Developers #Programming #Innovation #Systems #FOSS #Technology #Code #Engineering #Nvidia
Stefano Marinelli
boosted
The last new #Linux #kernel for 2025 was just released and there are some really cool changes all around. One of the new additions is detection for FreeBSD's #bhyve #hypervisor. Wicked cool!
From the article:
"In what might be a sign of the quiet continued spread of FreeBSD, the kernel can now detect and handle that it is running under FreeBSD's built-in bhyve hypervisor. Coincidentally, FreeBSD 15.0 just appeared as well, and in this release bhyve supports over 255 virtual processors [PDF] in a VM. Now Linux can handle that configuration."
The juicy details are here:
Rust in the Linux kernel is here to stay!
To celebrate this event, we sat down with Danilo Krummrich, Linux kernel maintainer and Rust for Linux core team member about the new NOVA driver and how Rust makes hardware-abstractions safer.
We talk about the typestate pattern, custom allocators, pin-init for self-referential structures, and why code that compiles in Rust actually works instead of causing kernel panics.
Booting Linux in QEMU and Writing PID 1 in Go to Illustrate Kernel as Program
https://serversfor.dev/linux-inside-out/the-linux-kernel-is-just-a-program/
#HackerNews #Booting #Linux #QEMU #Go #Kernel #Programming #PID1
The end of the kernel Rust experiment
https://lwn.net/Articles/1049831/
#HackerNews #kernel #Rust #experiment #end #Rust #programming #Linux #development #open #source #technology
The last new #Linux #kernel for 2025 was just released and there are some really cool changes all around. One of the new additions is detection for FreeBSD's #bhyve #hypervisor. Wicked cool!
From the article:
"In what might be a sign of the quiet continued spread of FreeBSD, the kernel can now detect and handle that it is running under FreeBSD's built-in bhyve hypervisor. Coincidentally, FreeBSD 15.0 just appeared as well, and in this release bhyve supports over 255 virtual processors [PDF] in a VM. Now Linux can handle that configuration."
The juicy details are here:
Debby ⁂📎🐧:disability_flag:
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The Input Stack on Linux – An End-To-End Architecture Overview
https://venam.net/blog/unix/2025/11/27/input_devices_linux.html
Patrick Louis writes: ""Let’s explore and deobfuscate the input stack on #Linux. Our aim is to understand its components and what each does. Input handling can be divided into two parts, separated by a common layer:
#Kernel-level handling: It deals with what happens in the kernel and how events are exposed to user-space
[…]
Exposed layer (middle)
[…]
User-space handling:
[…]
The Widgets, #XServer, #X11 window managers, and #Wayland compositors, which rely on everything else
We’ll try to make sense of all this, one thing at a time, with a logical and coherent approach.""
Moss: a Rust Linux-compatible kernel in 26,000 lines of code
The Input Stack on Linux – An End-To-End Architecture Overview
https://venam.net/blog/unix/2025/11/27/input_devices_linux.html
Patrick Louis writes: ""Let’s explore and deobfuscate the input stack on #Linux. Our aim is to understand its components and what each does. Input handling can be divided into two parts, separated by a common layer:
#Kernel-level handling: It deals with what happens in the kernel and how events are exposed to user-space
[…]
Exposed layer (middle)
[…]
User-space handling:
[…]
The Widgets, #XServer, #X11 window managers, and #Wayland compositors, which rely on everything else
We’ll try to make sense of all this, one thing at a time, with a logical and coherent approach.""
Jan :rust: :ferris:
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Once again saw someone blaming the #rust support in the #Linux #kernel for their problems, when in fact the problem at hand had nothing at all to do with it[1].
Kinda funny but also quite worrying at the same time.
See the slightly edited screenshot from a chatroom message below for an example from today. If you look closer, you see that it is a segfault in a userspace #rustlang program.
[1] I once even saw someone complaining when the kernel in fact did not even have CONFIG_RUST enabled…
