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• Is AMD's CCP encryption processor working in your system ?
  reddit.com/r/linuxhardware | 2021-03-02

  It's actually line 800 in https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/drivers/crypto/ccp/ccp-dev-v5.c but close enough. Same cause.

  reddit.com/r/linuxhardware | 2021-03-02

  See line 72 of https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/drivers/crypto/ccp/psp-dev.c

• Recommendations needed for 3rd Party *wired* Xbox 360/One controller that works well on Linux
  reddit.com/r/linux_gaming | 2021-03-02

  The controllers listed in xpad.c are the ones which will work without hassle through the kernel driver. https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/drivers/input/joystick/xpad.c

• How does an app developer “code in” feedback from a touchscreen? Is there a framework for this?
  reddit.com/r/learnprogramming | 2021-03-01
• Actually Portable Executable – Lua
  news.ycombinator.com | 2021-02-28

  > What I wouldn't give for a liblinux, similar to NTDLL.

  Hey I actually tried to make such a thing.

  https://github.com/matheusmoreira/liblinux

  It provides access to Linux system calls and process start up code that gets all the arguments, environment and auxiliary values. I have several examples of applications written in 100% freestanding C with no dependencies except this library.

  It's a bit too low level compared to the dynamic loading library but I actually planned to make my own ld-liblinux eventually. I stopped working on it because I found better solution for system calls on the Linux kernel repository:

  https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/tools/include/...

  You think liblinux could have a future?

• How to view unknown characters if I nano a bin file
  reddit.com/r/bash | 2021-02-27

  The kernel source is here: https://github.com/torvalds/linux

• Bad performance when copying a large file
  reddit.com/r/btrfs | 2021-02-26

  Doesn't the memory management subsystem take into account trashing scenarios like this? Link. At least, that's my naive understanding on the matter.

• sddm fails to login when fingerprint is enabled
  reddit.com/r/kdeneon | 2021-02-25

  https://github.com/torvalds/linux/tree/master/Documentation.

• PSA: Latest (kernel) updates might break your samba config if ',' is in your credentials
  reddit.com/r/archlinux | 2021-02-24

  This should be the problem: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/24e0a1eff9e2b9835a6e7c17039dfb6ecfd81f1f

• Tascam US 16x08 USB Audio Interface
  reddit.com/r/archlinux | 2021-02-23

  Okay. I did some searching and found two things: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/sound/usb/mixer_us16x08.c one, which looks like a driver of some sort for the interface and two, https://github.com/onkelDead/tascam-gtk a GUI mixer for the interface. IDK if this is anything useful, as I am completely lost when it comes to this.

• Problems with WD External Hard Drive
  reddit.com/r/linuxquestions | 2021-02-23
• ASM3242 drivers to get USB 3.2 gen 2x2 (superspeed 20gb) working
  reddit.com/r/linux_devices | 2021-02-23
• Booting the IBM 1401: How a 1959 punch-card computer loads a program
  news.ycombinator.com | 2021-02-22

  I don't know the answer to your exact question.

  But z/Linux does actually support card readers and card punches – https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/drivers/s390/c... – of course nowadays nobody is using physical ones, z/VM emulates virtual card readers / punches and lets you redirect them to disk files and in that context they are still used.

  (It would be an interesting if pointless exercise to see if z/Linux could actually talk to a real physical card reader / card punch. z/Linux uses a paravirtualisation approach to talk to card readers/punches – z/VM DIAG 14 call – so z/Linux couldn't directly interface with a physical device. I don't know whether z/VM still has the code in it to talk to physical readers/punches, probably it has been removed or been bitrotted away.)

• Update on Librem 5 front camera progress
  reddit.com/r/Purism | 2021-02-22
• IMX290 driver for jetson nx
  reddit.com/r/JetsonNano | 2021-02-18

  It is difficult to write your own driver without the sensor datasheet. Those datasheets are under a Sony NDA though and you will not get one as a private person. You could adapt the driver from the standard kernel though: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/drivers/media/i2c/imx290.c