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AMD Hardware Feedback Interface & CPUID Faulting Merged For Linux 6.17

Phoronix - Wed, 07/30/2025 - 18:40
Two notable AMD CPU feature additions were merged overnight for the in-development Linux 6.17 kernel...

AMD Zen 5 CPUs See First Microcode Updates In Linux-Firmware.Git

Phoronix - Wed, 07/30/2025 - 18:22
AMD yesterday upstreamed a batch of new CPU microcode files to linux-firmware.git as the de facto repository where component firmware/microcode is easily distributed to Linux distributions. This also marks the first time that Family 1Ah (Family 26) CPU microcode is updated there for the latest Zen 5 processors...

Linux 6.17 Now Makes Multi-Core/SMP Support Unconditional

Phoronix - Wed, 07/30/2025 - 18:09
Earlier this year Linux kernel patches were posted for making SMP support unconditional so the kernel is always built for multi-core capabilities. With uniprocessor core environments being extremely rare especially for those that would be using an up-to-date, upstream Linux kernel, dropping non-SMP support would allow simplifying code paths within the kernel. Well, for Linux 6.17 it's finally happening...

Arch Linux Installer Adds Bluetooth Support & U2F Authentication

Phoronix - Wed, 07/30/2025 - 17:47
Archinstall 3.0.9 released today as the newest iteration of this text-based Arch Linux operating system installer...

July 30, 2025 - Hackaday

Google News - Wed, 07/30/2025 - 16:05
July 30, 2025  Hackaday

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