… Somewhat surprisingly with how NPUs have been talked up as being a tiny part of the die and power efficient for AI, a patch under review for the Linux kernel's IVPU driver will allow limiting the NPU frequency for power and thermal management reasons. …
… 4 Comments Released on Friday was the newest version of Intel Thermald, the thermal daemon developed by Intel for their processors on Linux for monitoring and helping control temperatures across modern Intel-powered laptops and desktops. …
… With the high-end hardware, the new Thelio Major now supports dual power supplies. …
… Last year the Intel int340x thermal driver was wired up for enabling the SoC slider with Panther Lake for indicating the system-wide energy performance hint as well as the ability to override the default power behavior if wanting to improve the SoC's power efficiency further. …
… With the power management pull, The LZ4 compression algorithm is now selectable in Kconfig as a hibernation compression option. The full list of power management changes for Linux 7.2 can be found via this pull now in Linux Git. …
… Medium also enables clock gating and sets the dynamic power management level to half. This is part of the effort to conserve power and deliver greater energy efficiency for AMD's NPU. Separately, the Intel NPU driver also has some new power management bits for Linux 7.2. …
… With EC driver behavior matches that of Windows, suspending device with lid open powers off the peripherals." A big improvement for the Dell XPS 9345 on Linux to avoid various thermal/power issues plaguing different Snapdragon X laptops. …
… The platform classifies performance above this level as boost and below as throttle for its power/thermal decisions. …
… The patch introducing Panther Lake R simply describes it as: "Derivative of Panther Lake with P-cores and low power E-cores intended for use in harsh environments." Panther Lake has been working out quite well on Linux with very nice power efficiency, so it will be nice to see Panther Lake appearin… …
… Merged ahead of Linux 7.1-rc5 were several bug fixes as well as enabling support for some additional models: - ASUS TUF A14 Ryzen AI Max+ FA401EA - ASUS TUF Gaming F16 2025 FX607VU powered by Intel Core 5 CPUs - ASUS ROG Strix G16 2025 G614FR that is powered by AMD Ryzen SoCs with NVIDIA GeForce RT… …