RHEL 9.4 Beta Brings Full Support For Intel SGX & DSA Accelerator Drivers

[phoronix]

Phoronix: RHEL 9.4 Beta Brings Full Support For Intel SGX & DSA Accelerator Drivers

Red Hat has made the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 Beta available to their customers this week for those wanting to test the next iteration of RHEL9...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/RHEL-9.4-Beta

[sophisticles]

I'm sure that the Rocky Linux, Alma Linux, Oracle Linux and all the others that make RH spins can't wait to get their hands on this.

[You-]

Great, I didn't know I already had all these new features! - Centos Stream user.

[kpedersen]

I'm sure that the Rocky Linux, Alma Linux, Oracle Linux and all the others that make RH spins can't wait to get their hands on this.

Red Hat has certainly been waiting long enough to get their hands on it (and for free like everyone else).

[cynic]

nice! I would also mention PostgreSQL 16 and Go 1.21 as much appreciated upgrades

[sophisticles]

Red Hat has certainly been waiting long enough to get their hands on it (and for free like everyone else).

Your comment makes no sense, Red Hat is the one that created it.

I suggest you think about what it is you are trying to say and restructure your comment accordingly.

[kpedersen]

Your comment makes no sense, Red Hat is the one that created it.

You think Intel didn't write the SGX & DSA Accelerator driver?

I suggest you think about what it is you are trying to say and restructure your comment accordingly.

I suggest you delete your account entirely.

[sophisticles]

You think Intel didn't write the SGX & DSA Accelerator driver?

The difference between Red Hat and any other Linux vendor is that Red Hat, along with Intel, and some other large companies, is a Platinum member of the Linux Foundation and contributes at least 500k a year to the development of the Linux kernel.

This is in addition to all the code they have contributed over the years.

Rocky has taken Red Hat's work and raised over 30 million dollars in just a few years from it and Alma has raised at least a million bucks a year from Red Hat's code.

That is the difference, Red Hat and Intel are contributors to Linux, both in terms of code and cash, lot's of it, and Rocky, Alma, et al, are thieves that are effectively stealing millions of dollars from Red Hat per year.

See the difference?

I suggest you delete your account entirely.

If I did that the level of Linux knowledge would drop by about 54.3%.

I can't do that to this forum, there needs to be at least one guy that is a neutral, non-partisan commentator that is fair and balanced.

[kpedersen]

The difference between Red Hat and any other Linux vendor is that Red Hat

They still didn't write the SGX & DSA Accelerator driver. They are downstream consumers / integrators just like Rocky, Alma, Oracle.

Your statement that Red Hat created it is categorically wrong and perhaps you should edit that post.

[sophisticles]

Your statement that Red Hat created it is categorically wrong and perhaps you should edit that post.

I never said that RH created it, I literally said:

I'm sure that the Rocky Linux, Alma Linux, Oracle Linux and all the others that make RH spins can't wait to get their hands on this.

This is an accurate statement because these three have explicitly stated that they take RH's releases and create rebranded versions that are binary compatible and bit for bit identical to Red Hat Proper.

That means that these projects will not include anything that is not included in the official Red Hat release, so if they want to offer Full Support For Intel SGX & DSA Accelerator Drivers they have to wait until RH releases a version that supports this.

What do you think the over/under is before we see an article on Phoronix stating that Rocky/Alma/Oracle have started offering Full Support For Intel SGX & DSA Accelerator Drivers?

I say 7.5 days.