# Linux Action News 255

URL: /show/linux-action-news/255/
> Details on two new efforts in the Linux kernel, the Pi-like RISC-V board that just hit its funding goal, and a significant milestone for Asahi GPU driver development.

- Show: [Linux Action News](/show/linux-action-news/)
- Episode: 255
- Date: 2022-08-25
- Hosts: chris, wes
- Duration: 00:20:11
- Audio: https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/dec90738-e640-45e5-b375-4573052f4bf4/3cbfbf46-300d-4075-a426-a841c721c34c.mp3
- YouTube: https://youtu.be/kbbrpraB8sU



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### Episode Links

  * [Experimental Kernel Patches](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Faster-ARM64-RISC-V-Kexec "Experimental Kernel Patches") — Patches sent out today clean-up the code taken on those architectures for bringing CPU cores down and allow for parallelism. With these patches and an 80-core Arm server, a Kexec reboot can go from taking around 15 seconds to now just around one second.
  * [ByteDance Working To Make It Faster Kexec Booting The Linux Kernel](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Bytedance-Faster-Kexec-Reboot "ByteDance Working To Make It Faster Kexec Booting The Linux Kernel")
  * [[RFC 00/10] arm64/riscv: Introduce fast kexec reboot - Pingfan Liu](https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220822021520.6996-1-kernelfans@gmail.com/ "\[RFC 00/10\] arm64/riscv: Introduce fast kexec reboot - Pingfan Liu")
  * [[PATCH 0/4] faster kexec reboot - Albert Huang](https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220725083904.56552-1-huangjie.albert@bytedance.com/ "\[PATCH 0/4\] faster kexec reboot - Albert Huang")
  * [VisionFive 2 — Kickstarter](https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/starfive/visionfive-2 "VisionFive 2 — Kickstarter") — High-performance quad-core RISC-V single board computer (SBC) with an integrated 3D GPU, 2G/4G/8G LPDDR.
  * [Linux Foundation TAB election: call for nominees](https://lwn.net/Articles/905651/ "Linux Foundation TAB election: call for nominees") — The 2022 election for members of the Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board (TAB) will be held during the Linux Plumbers Conference, September 12 to 14.
  * [Webmin 2.0 Released](https://github.com/webmin/webmin/releases/tag/2.000 "Webmin 2.0 Released") — Webmin is a web-based system administration tool for Unix-like servers and services with over 1,000,000 installations worldwide.
  * [Flatpak 1.14.0 Released](https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/releases/tag/1.14.0 "Flatpak 1.14.0 Released") — Flatpak 1.14 brings a variety of mostly small and lower-level improvements to this Linux app sandboxing tech
  * [Flatpak 1.14 Released With Improvements For Sandboxed Linux Apps](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Flatpak-1.14-Released "Flatpak 1.14 Released With Improvements For Sandboxed Linux Apps")
  * [Firefox 104.0](https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/104.0/releasenotes/ "Firefox 104.0") — The Firefox UI itself will now be throttled for performance and battery usage when minimized or occluded, in the same way background tabs are.
  * [Rosenzweig – Clip control on the Apple GPU](https://rosenzweig.io/blog/asahi-gpu-part-6.html "Rosenzweig – Clip control on the Apple GPU") — After a year in development, the open source “Asahi” driver for the Apple GPU is running real games.
  * [Asahi Linux May Have OpenGL 2.1 For Apple M1/M2 By Year’s End](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Asahi-Linux-GL-2.1-EOY2022 "Asahi Linux May Have OpenGL 2.1 For Apple M1/M2 By Year’s End") — " I’m optimistic that we’ll have native OpenGL 2.1 in Asahi Linux by the end of the year."