Welcome to the LWN.net Weekly Edition for September 28, 2017
This edition contains the following feature content:
- A memory allocation API for graphics devices: A status update on the long-term effort to provide better cross-device memory allocation primitives.
- Safety-critical realtime with Linux: What is safety-critical realtime, and how can it be achieved with Linux?
- An update on live kernel patching: A Linux Plumbers Conference talk on the evolving facility for applying patches to a running kernel.
- Notes from the LPC tracing microconference: Several tracing-related topics from the Linux Plumbers Conference.
- Fedora's foundations meet proprietary drivers: Fedora's free-software and freshness goals run afoul of the NVIDIA driver.
This week's edition also includes these inner pages:
- Brief items: Brief news items from throughout the community.
- Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more.
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