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AMD & FreeBSD Begin Collaborating Over OS Improvements


The FreeBSD open-source operating system project published their Q2'2024 status report that outlines some interesting work happening to this leading BSD project.

Konstantin Belousov has been working on various parts of the project, including driver attachment, register definitions, an ACPI table parser, and utility functions. To follow all of Konstantin’s work, look for src commits tagged with Sponsored by fields for Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and The FreeBSD Foundation." A new innovation happening for the FreeBSD kernel is that "Zcond" is being developed as a low-cost conditional execution mechanism similar to Linux's static_key interface.

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