Many Intel & AMD Laptop Improvements Merged For Linux 7.1
…4 Comments As usual in recent years, there were many x86 platform driver changes merged this cycle for benefiting modern AMD Ryzen and Intel Core (Ultra) laptops. A variety of new features…
…4 Comments As usual in recent years, there were many x86 platform driver changes merged this cycle for benefiting modern AMD Ryzen and Intel Core (Ultra) laptops. A variety of new features…
…for supporting AMD EPYC Venice platforms. Venice is the successor to the current-generation AMD EPYC 9005 "Turin" processors. Beyond that there are other small driver changes, new IIO drivers, and other…
…For Linux 7.1 there are 12 new SoCs added to the upstream kernel, among other notable changes from the multiple SoC pulls that are now merged to Git. Some of the…
…With today's update for their LLM-Scaler stack with vLLM, they have updated the platform image to intel/llm-scaler-platform:26.18.8.2. The only other listed change is…
…write-only register used by OSPM to tell the platform what it considers nominal. The platform classifies performance above this as boost and below as throttle for power/thermal decisions. - Resource Priority…
…are added for next-gen Nova Lake H platforms. See the MFD pull for the full list of merged multi-function device driver changes now part of the Linux 7.1 kernel…
…7 Comments Theo de Raadt announced the release today of OpenBSD 7.9 as the latest feature update to this unique BSD platform. OpenBSD 7.9 on AMD64 (x86_64) is catching…
It doesn't change too much in practice with how Mesa updates typically have been handled under Fedora Linux, but now it's officially documented: Mesa graphics drivers have a permanent updates…
…Add A Comment Since March we have been seeing patches from AMD software engineers beginning to enable their next-generation "AIE4" NPU platform under Linux. We still don't know for sure…
…One change worth noting on the Linux (and macOS) side is that local profile back-ups are now available with support for restoring them across platforms. This is for more easily transferring…