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Linux 6.14 Thermal Drivers Get Ready For Intel Panther Lake

Phoronix - Tue, 01/21/2025 - 19:45
Intel's upstreaming work around the next-gen Core Ultra "Panther Lake" processors continues for the Linux kernel. Among other code being prepped for submitting during the Linux 6.14 merge window, on Monday the thermal driver updates were focused on enabling support for Intel Panther Lake processors...

Linus Torvalds Adapts Linux User Address Masking To Use CMOV

Phoronix - Tue, 01/21/2025 - 19:34
In addition to merging a number of the pull requests yesterday for the start of the Linux 6.14 cycle, Linux creator Linus Torvalds did merge some of his own new code as well. While his time these days working on new kernel code itself is more limited with managing the ever-growing upstream kernel community, he has managed some notable items in recent times like addressing ARM64 kernel annoyances and some performance optimizations...

Linux 6.14 Resource Control To Allow Total Memory Bandwidth Monitoring

Phoronix - Tue, 01/21/2025 - 19:24
The x86/cache updates for the in-development Linux 6.14 kernel are extending the Resource Control "resctrl" code for Intel Resource Director Technology / AMD Platform Quality of Service to have the capability of total memory bandwidth monitoring...

Bcachefs Changes Merged Without Issue For The Linux 6.14 Kernel

Phoronix - Tue, 01/21/2025 - 16:00
As a follow-up to yesterday's article around the on-disk format changes and other feature work on Bcachefs for Linux 6.14, the changes ended up being merged without issue for this next kernel version. That came after the Bcachefs changes were rejected during the Linux 6.13 cycle due to a Code of Conduct (CoC) committee decision...

New AMD CPU Features Enabled For The Start Of The Linux 6.14 Kernel Cycle

Phoronix - Tue, 01/21/2025 - 09:44
On this first day of the Linux 6.14 merge window to kick off the new kernel development cycle there are a few pull requests around new AMD CPU features worth noting...

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