Ubuntu 22.04 Jammy Jellyfish Daily Builds Are Now Available

The development starts for Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and daily builds are now available for download.

Devices/Embedded/hardware Leftovers

• Where To Purchase Lenovo Computers With Ubuntu Preinstalled

  This article is for you to find Lenovo desktop and laptop computers sold with Ubuntu preinstalled. We want everyone to know that Ubuntu computers exist and help them to buy quality computers they want. This article is part of our support to Free Software Business and also a response to Lenovo's 2020's announcement of the availability of their Ubuntu-powered ThinkPad and ThinkStation.

• QNAP TBS-464 ultra-thin NAS supports 4 M.2 NVMe SSDs, 2.5GbE networking - CNX Software

  Most NAS are large boxes that take several 3.5-inch SATA drives, but QNAP TBS-464 NASbook is a different beast with an ultra-thin design enabled by four M.2 PCIe slots for NVMe SSDs, plus two 2.5 GbE ports to match the higher data transfer speed allowed by the SSDs. The NAS is equipped with a recent Intel Celeron N5105/N5095 Jasper Lake quad-core processor coupled with 8GB DDR4 memory, and also offers USB 3.0 ports, as well as two HDMI 2.0 video outputs and an IR receiver that would make it suitable as a NAS & HTPC combo, for example, running Plex.

• BrainChip AKD1000 SNN AI SoC gets Raspberry Pi and x86 development kits - CNX Software

  BrainChip has introduced two development kits for its Akida AKD1000 neuromorphic processor based on Raspberry Pi and an Intel (x86) mini PC in order to enable partners, large enterprises, and OEMs to begin testing and validation of the Akida chip.

• Rockchip RK3566/RK3568 SoM’s feature board-to-board connectors or castellated holes

  Rongpin Electronics has designed RK3566 and RK3568 systems-on-modules (SoM) with either board-to-board connectors or castellated holes for direct soldering to the carrier board, which adds competition to the Firefly Core-3568J AI Core Rockchip RK3568 system-on-module offered in a SO-DIMM form factor with an edge connector.

Kernel: Bootlin, Mediatek, XWayland, and More

• Embedded Linux Boot time optimization: training and webinar

  Bootlin has been helping its customers optimize the boot time of embedded Linux systems for many years, ensuring that these systems meet their startup time requirements. Thanks to this, Bootlin has accumulated a significant experience in this field.

• Mediatek Posts 8k Lines Of New Linux Kernel Driver Code For AI Processing Unit Support - Phoronix

  For a number of months Mediatek engineers have been posting some Linux kernel driver code for bringing up the AI Processing Unit (APU) within the MT8192 SoC while out this weekend is the complete patch series at more than eight thousand lines of code. There has been some APU power handling and IOMMU patches previously posted while on Saturday was the complete set of patches for bringing up the MT8192 APU with power control, tinysys controller (a micro-controller on the APU), and middleware support. In total it's 8.1k lines of new kernel code.

• xwayland 21.1.2.901

  This is a release candidate for Xwayland 21.1.3.
  
  Most notable change is a fix for the GBM backend to work with the
  Nvidia driver series 495.
  
  Unless any major issues turn up, I'm planning to make the final release
  in the coming weeks.
  
  James Jones (1):
         Use EGL_LINUX_DMA_BUF_EXT to create GBM bo EGLImages
  
  Olivier Fourdan (5):
         xwayland/shm: Avoid integer overflow on large pixmaps
         xwayland: Set GLVND driver based on GBM backend name
         xwayland: Clear tablet cursor pending frame cb
         xwayland/test: Don't catch errors in run-piglit.sh
         Bump version to 21.1.2.901
  
  Povilas Kanapickas (1):
         glamor: Fix handling of 1-bit pixmaps
  
  Simon Ser (1):
         xwayland: fix xdg_output leak
  
  git tag: xwayland-21.1.2.901
  

• XWayland 21.1.3 Nears With Support For NVIDIA 495 Driver's GBM - Phoronix

  The release candidate to XWayland 21.1.3 is out today with just a few changes but made significant by support for the NVIDIA 495 series driver GBM code path. XWayland 21.1.3 is the next point release to this code that is spun out from the upstream X.Org Server for delivering standalone XWayland releases separate from tagged xorg-server versions. XWayland 21.3. has only a handful of fixes like an XDG_Output memory leak fix, fixed handling of 1-bit pixmaps in GLAMOR, avoiding possible integer overflows on large pixmaps, and other maintenance items.

• Vulkanised Fall 2021 Material Available - Autodesk Has Begun Using MoltenVK - Phoronix

  Last week was the virtual Vulkanised Fall 2021 event hosted by The Khronos Group. The two-day event was focused on all things Vulkan and for those that missed it all of the slide decks and other material are now available. This was a two-day virtual affair focused on the high performance graphics and compute API featuring a current status update around features like ray-tracing and video encode/decode, interesting usages of Vulkan, and related work like Arm's astcenc encoder, HLSL shader compilation, and more.