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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...

Intel Raptor Lake Mitigation Impact Performance Comparison

Phoronix - Thu, 12/08/2022 - 00:20
A recurring question that has come up by readers since the recent launch of the Intel 13th Gen Core "Raptor Lake" processors has been whether it's still worthwhile running with the "mitigations=off" Linux kernel option to disable software-controlled CPU security mitigations to increase performance. For production systems that is never recommended due to the security risk, but for those wondering, here is a brief look at the mitigation situation on Raptor Lake with the flagship Core i9 13900K.

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