# Linux Action News 237

URL: /show/linux-action-news/237/
> Our take on why Fedora's Legacy BIOS plans have stirred up such a strong debate, how NVIDIA's Linux strategy seems to be changing, and a surprising kernel patch from Sony.

- Show: [Linux Action News](/show/linux-action-news/)
- Episode: 237
- Date: 2022-04-21
- Hosts: chris, wes
- Duration: 00:18:15
- Audio: https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/dec90738-e640-45e5-b375-4573052f4bf4/1e019a48-beaa-42e4-b835-eb968af0d862.mp3
- YouTube: https://youtu.be/ks5R_sdc4Yw



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### Episode Links

  * [NVIDIA Posts Open-Source DRM Kernel Driver For NVDLA](https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NVIDIA-NVDLA-DRM-Review "NVIDIA Posts Open-Source DRM Kernel Driver For NVDLA") — NVIDIA has posted 13k lines of new Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) kernel driver code for review for supporting their NVDLA IP block.
  * [Sony Contributes ~73%+ Performance Improvement For exFAT Linux Driver](https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Faster-exFAT-Thanks-Sony "Sony Contributes ~73%+ Performance Improvement For exFAT Linux Driver") — In turn this improved block request handling leads to 73% and higher performance improvements for tests carried out by Sony engineer Yuezhang Mo on an Arm test platform with SD card storage that is common for Microsoft exFAT file-system usage.
  * [KDE Has Many Plasma Wayland Fixes](https://pointieststick.com/2022/04/14/this-week-in-kde-stable-desktop-icons-and-even-better-gestures/ "KDE Has Many Plasma Wayland Fixes") — It was a mostly bugfixy week, without so much feature and UI work.
  * [Google Chrome/Chromium Experimenting With A Qt Back-End](https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Chromium-Qt-WIP "Google Chrome/Chromium Experimenting With A Qt Back-End") — It looks like Google is at least evaluating the prospects of Qt toolkit support for the Chromium/Chrome UI. A Phoronix reader tipped us off to newly-started Gerrit code reviews for Qt support with Chromium.
  * [Legacy BIOS Support Remains Important For Some On Fedora, May Shift Responsibility To SIG](https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Fedora-Legacy-BIOS-Possible-SIG "Legacy BIOS Support Remains Important For Some On Fedora, May Shift Responsibility To SIG") — Earlier this month the change proposal was laid out for Fedora 37 looking to deprecate legacy BIOS support. 
  * [LINUX Unplugged 454: Double Distro Details](https://linuxunplugged.com/454 "LINUX Unplugged 454: Double Distro Details") — Has Fedora pulled ahead of Ubuntu? We take a look at the new Fedora 36 and Ubuntu 22.04 releases.