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The Linux Channel :: Weekly News Digest - Week 03 - July 2020
> Linux founder tells Intel to stop inventing 'magic instructions' and 'start fixing real problems'
> QNAP launches its first 2.5GbE network switch - QSW-1105-5T
> Japan's ARM-based Fugaku is the world's fastest supercomputer
> FreeBSD Back To Seeing Progress On 802.11ac WiFi Support, Ath10k Driver
> Sparkfun Launches the ZED-F9R GPS Dead Reckoning Raspberry Pi pHAT for Mobile Robots
> ODROID-N2 Plus SBC Gets Amlogic S922X Rev. C Processor Clocked at up to 2.4 GHz
> Rock Pi E SBC Comes with WiFi, Bluetooth, Two Ethernet Ports, and Optional PoE

Here are the quick links or architecture images of various Network Packet Processing Hardware Offload via NIC card. And also here is my detailed video and demo on GRO (Generic Receive Offload).

Often aspiring students may have this question, that what is the purpose of Linux Kernel Development. Since Linux Kernel is very mature and it has almost everything one would need. Usually, we need custom kernel development in the case of any new driver development for new upcoming hardware. And this happens on and on. But at times we may also come across few features/modules/components which are already provided by the Linux Kernel which are not adequate or atleast not the way we exactly intended to use. So, this is the real-world example, sometimes no matter what Linux Kernel provides as a part of stock Kernel/OS features, sometimes we have to write our own custom kernel stack or module(s) which can specifically cater our exact needs.