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To that end, we’re thrilled to announce that today, K-9 Mail officially joins the Thunderbird family. And [K9 maintainer Christian Ketterer] has already joined the full-time Thunderbird staff, bringing along his valuable expertise and experience with mobile platforms.

Ultimately, K-9 Mail will transform into Thunderbird on Android.

That means the name itself will change and adopt Thunderbird branding. Before that happens, we need to reach certain development milestones that will bring K-9 Mail into alignment with Thunderbird’s feature set and visual appearance.

And yes, because I expected the rc2 week to be fairly quiet, I did a system update on my workstation, and as a result I spent a day or two then sorting out most of the fallout from the resulting compiler upgrade to gcc-12. Some of it ended up being a bit heavy-handed, and we'll be tweaking things further. And some of it ends up being an actual compiler misfeature.

This microconference supplements the LSF/MM event by providing an opportunity to discuss current topics with a different audience, in a different location, and at a different time of year.

The microconference is about current problems in kernel memory management, for example:

• Multi-generational LRU vs traditional LRU
• Do we need three different slab allocators?
• How far do we take the folio conversion?
• Can we handle page pinning and page mapcount more effectively?
• How can we effectively cache reflinked files?
• Can we support 1GB pages other than through hugetlbfs?
• How should we handle memory failures better?

Please come and join us in the discussion about the rocket science kernel memory management.

We hope to see you there!

We hope very much to see you in Dublin in September (12-14th). Please visit our attend page for all the details.

Linux Plumbers Conference 2022 is pleased to host the Compute Express Link Microconference

Compute Express Link is a cache coherent fabric that is gaining a lot of momentum in the industry. Hardware vendors have begun to ramp up on CXL 2.0 hardware and software must not lag behind. The current software ecosystem looks promising with enough components ready to begin provisioning of test systems.

The Compute Express Link microconference focuses around how to evolve the Linux
CXL kernel driver and userspace for full support of the CXL 2.0 and beyond. It is also an opportunity to discuss the needs and expectations of everyone on the CXL community and to address the current state of development.

Suggested topics:

• Ecosystem & Architectural review
• Future kernel work – regions
• QEMU support now and later
• Security: IDE and SPDM
• Avoiding vendor specificity
• Collaboration on Future Spec enhancements
• Type 2 accelerator support (bias flip management)
• Hot remove
• RAS (GPF, AER, Poison handling)
• 1.1 to 2.0 compatibility
• topics currently under embargo (p2p)
• Hot add policy daxctl

Please come and join us in the discussion about the Linux support of the next generation high speed interconnect.

We hope to see you there!

If you want to attend a session like this, the next chance is at EuroBSDCon in Vienna, September 15.

The open source Panfrost driver for Mali GPUs now supports the new Valhall architecture with fully-conformant OpenGL ES 3.1 on Mali-G57, a Valhall GPU. The final Mesa patches are landing today, and the required kernel patches are queued for merge upstream.