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AMD Cezanne Laptops See Last Minute Suspend/Resume Fix With Linux 6.1

Phoronix - Thu, 12/08/2022 - 06:00
For those running an AMD Ryzen 5000 series "Cezanne" powered laptop, squeezing into the kernel this week ahead of the Linux 6.1 debut on Sunday is a suspend/resume fix affecting various models...

Fwupd 1.8.8 Released For New Hardware, BIOS Rollback Protection For Dell & Lenovo

Phoronix - Thu, 12/08/2022 - 03:54
Fwupd 1.8.8 is available today as the newest update to this excellent solution for allowing system and device/peripheral firmware updates to happen under Linux and other platforms when paired with the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS)...

AMD Posts P-State Linux Patches For New "Guided Autonomous Mode"

Phoronix - Thu, 12/08/2022 - 00:37
With the AMD P-State CPU frequency scaling driver that has come together over the past year and improved upon there has been the Energy Performance Preference "EPP" mode being worked on recently to further improve the performance/power characteristics of Ryzen and EPYC processors on Linux. A new patch series today implements a third mode for the AMD P-State driver...

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