The Linux Kernel Ready To Make TSC A Hard Requirement For x86 CPUs
…Thus this patch in tip/tip.git's "x86/cpu" branch makes TSC support unconditional for x86 kernel builds. Separate to that Kconfig patch to make TSC unconditional, the non-TSC code…
…Thus this patch in tip/tip.git's "x86/cpu" branch makes TSC support unconditional for x86 kernel builds. Separate to that Kconfig patch to make TSC unconditional, the non-TSC code…
…Last month I wrote about a new patch from AMD expandign the range of Zen 6 CPUs detected by the Linux kernel . It's that patch now queued up for merging today…
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