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Thunderbolt 5 devices are starting to show up with OWC portable SSD and Kensington docking station

Thunderbolt 5 was first unveiled last year with promises of 120 Gbps bandwidth and support for multiple 8K monitors. The good news is that the first Thunderbolt 5-compliant devices are now coming to market. There’s not too much to choose from for now, but we…
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Jiffies : The Heartbeat of the #Linux Operating System

blogs.oracle.com/linux/post/ji

Sharad Raykhere writes: "'The interval between two system timer interrupt ticks is known as a jiffy in the #LinuxKernel. Think of them as the heartbeat of the #kernel, marking regular intervals at which the kernel performs essential timekeeping tasks.

The jiffies hold the number of ticks that have occurred since the system booted. The variable is initialized by the kernel to zero at boot, and it is increased […]'"

#Linux v6.12-rc1-rt1 is out:

lore.kernel.org/all/2024093015

If you wonder what's still in the RT-Tree now that #PREEMPT_RT support is upstream, checkout git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/k

In short: about 40 patches that among others switch 8250 to nbcon console, add support for ARM and PowerPC, or fix some drivers (like i915).

#Realtime #kernel #LinuxKernel

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