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Linux 7.1 Lands Workaround For Arm C1-Pro Erratum

Phoronix - Tue, 04/21/2026 - 18:35
Merged yesterday to the Linux 7.1 kernel is a workaround for an Arm C1-Pro CPU hardware bug around its Scalable Matrix Extension implementation...

Initial Linux Driver Patches For Smart Data Accelerator Interface "SDXI"

Phoronix - Tue, 04/21/2026 - 18:22
Recently sent out on the Linux kernel mailing list was the initial patches for implementing the Smart Data Accelerator Interface (SDXI) as a vendor-neutral architecture for memory-to-memory data movement offload...

Linux 7.1 Staging Ushered In More Developers To Make Their First Kernel Contributions

Phoronix - Tue, 04/21/2026 - 18:00
Over the weekend Greg Kroah-Hartman sent out his various pull requests for the areas of the kernel he oversees. Among those is the staging area where this time around the notable activity isn't too much about feature work but many developers making some of their first contributions to the upstream kernel...

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