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Linux 6.10 Features Expected From The NTSYNC Driver To Performance Optimizations for Wine/Proton(Games)

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Linux 6.10 Features Expected From The NTSYNC Driver To Performance Optimizations

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Preparations for a kernel panic screen as sort of like a Windows Blue Screen of Death (BSoD).
This is my favorite part.
- My guess is it means this sort of recent windows feature of showing a QR code on how to search for the issue you’re experiencing
  Having a QR code with a link to the error code or at least a way to search it is an excellent UX thing, especially for those who are less accustomed to dealing with Linux kernel panics
  See the comments in response to mine on how this might look
  
  I love your specific example screenshot
  "Hey is this Microsoft support? Yeah, err, so I've got this MANUALLY_INITIATED_CRASH error, can you help?"
  "Have you tried.. Not initiating...a crash..?"
  
  It doesn't have a QR code in it's current state AFAIK, but I believe the guy wants to add one eventually. Here's what it might look like:
  https://gitlab.com/kdj0c/panic_report/-/issues/1
  Also from the commits it looks like the colours are configurable at compile time (white on black default), and that exclamation Tux is already there.
  Looks like this is already a thing though with [systemd-bsod]
  Nah, that only handles boot errors, not kernel panics.
  
  I like it when my crashes come with a plain text explanation of what caused the crash. It just seems simpler to me than having to deal with some barcode fuckery.
Exciting. Hopefully the linux youtubers do some comparisons so we can see if this makes a noticeable difference.
- https://www.phoronix.com/news/Windows-NT-Sync-RFC-Linux
  
  Damn that's a huge performance increase wtf. That's a gpu upgrade worth of performance for free.
My lesdyxia saw NSYNC
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Barring any last minute reservations by Linus Torvalds, Linux 6.9 stable should release later today.
In turn the Linux 6.10 merge window will then open for the next two weeks and already some early pull requests have been submitted for this next kernel version.
Intel's Neural Processing Unit is initially found with new Core Ultra "Meteor Lake" laptops.
The Panthor DRM driver is being merged for supporting newer Arm Mali graphics.
TPM bus encryption and integrity protection to precent active/passive interposer attacks that have been recently demonstrated for both Windows and Linux.
An Intel low-latency hint for aggressively boosting the GT frequency for GPU compute.
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Emulating NT synchronization primitives in Wine - Zeb Figura at Linux Plumbers Conference | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjU4nyWyhU8
Futex | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futex
Lock, mutex | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lock_(computer_science)
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The NTSYNC driver should be merged for emulating Windows NT synchronization primitives for speeding up Windows games running on Wine / Steam Play (Proton). (Update:) But it looks like so far only the basic NTSYNC driver patches are in char-misc-next and currently not the entire complete series.
Very nice. Gaming on Linux slowly starts to be no problem at least for me.
- It shouldn't speed up anything on Proton, since it already uses f-sync, which gives the same speedup, but breaks some apps, which is why Wine wasn't using it and ntsync was created as an alternative.

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