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Initial Support For The Apple M4 & Apple A18 Pro Make It Into Linux 7.4

The many SoC patches have landed within the Linux 7.4 kernel providing support for dozens of new boards as well as a number of new SoCs like the Apple M4 and the A18 Pro as found in the MacBook Neo. The Google Tensor 5 was also finally mainlined along with Pixel 10 devices. Plus some unreleased Qualcomm SoC support rounds out the bunch...

Linux.org

Getting Started with the BeaglePlay SBC on Debian

The BeagleBoard company has many Single Board Computer (SBC) and the BeaglePlay is one of them. Released in 2023 were both the BeaglePlay and the BeagleV-Ahead. The Play board is an ARM processor while the Ahead board is RISC-V. In this article, I will cover the BeaglePlay SBC. Specs The hardware specs are: Processor: Texas Instruments AM6254 Quad-core ARM Cortex-A53 Speed of 1.4GHz Microcontroller: ARM Cortex-M4F Memory:... https://www.linux.org/threads/getting-started-with-the-beagleplay-sbc-on-debian.65403/

LWN.net

[$] Python's experimental JIT to be removed

Python's experimental just-in-time (JIT) compiler, which was added to CPython in 2024 for the 3.13 release, is on its way out. In June, the Python steering council announced that it was pausing work on the JIT in CPython's main branch until there was an accepted Python Enhancement Proposal (PEP) that addressed concerns about maintenance, compatibility, and set clear success metrics as well as a timeline for completion. After creating PEP 836 ("JIT Go Brrr: The Path to a Supported JIT Compiler for CPython") to try to meet the council's request, and after months of discussion, the JIT maintainers have withdrawn the PEP. For now, it appears that development on the once-promising project has come to an end.