Linux 7.0 Sees Last Minute Fix For Bogus Hardware Errors On AMD Zen 3
…Sent out today is a patch to filter the bogus hardware errors appearing for some users on AMD Ryzen 5000 series (Zen 3) hardware. This fix is also marked for back-porting…
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Linux's KVM With CET Virtualization Is Causing Some Hosts To Hang
…This complements CET that has existed in Linux for quite some time but it's new now to the KVM virtualization world, but some yet to be diagnosed problems are causing some…
A Small But Useful Debugging Addition For AMD Zen Systems With Linux 7.1
…3 Comments A small but convenient feature is coming with the Linux 7.1 that will be useful in debugging AMD Zen system problems and information reporting/transparency purposes. While AMD's…
Linux Drivers For The AMD Elan SoCs From The 1990s On Track For Retirement
…This patch series posted yesterday begins removing the actual AMD Elan specific drivers. Sean Young who authored the patch series commented: "Now that AMD Elan support has been removed, remove the AMD…
Patches For Linux 7.1 May Have Negative Impact On 32-bit Systems
…The first patch changes some vfs function arguments, so check that one out carefully. With this change, we may be able to shrink some inode structures. For instance, struct nfs_inode has…
Linux 7.2 To Integrate The AMDGPU "Power Module" To Better Align With Windows
…Mesa Begins Seeing Patch Activity For AMD GFX12.1 Graphics AMD Posts HDMI 2.1 FRL Patches For Their AMDGPU Linux Driver RADV Vulkan Driver Adds Memory Protection Using AMD Trusted Memory…
Linux 7.1 Adds New AMD SMCA Bank Types, Presumably For Upcoming EPYC Venice
…The patches merged this week for Linux 7.1 add a number of new SMCA bank types top the AMD MCE driver. The AMD Scalable Machine Check Architecture (SMCA) bank types are…
Linux Out-Of-Bounds Access Fixed For Unprivileged Users With Specially Crafted Certs
…Among the last minute patches working their way into the mainline Git tree ahead of today's expected Linux 7.0 stable kernel release is for fixing an out-of-bounds access…
AMD SBI Driver Preps For EPYC Venice With Linux 7.1
…The past few months the patch flow has continued picking up for the Linux kernel and related open-source projects like the GNU and LLVM toolchains for AMD Zen 6 at large…
AMD ISP4 Driver On Track To Be Merged For Linux 7.2
…Ubuntu on its LTS releases has been carrying an OEM kernel with the out-of-tree patches and some users have manually been patching their systems, while that driver should finally be…