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 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.
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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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.