Linux 7.1 Expected To Begin Removing i486 CPU Support
…Ingo Molnar took action and authored a patch that initially gets rid of the CONFIG_M486SX, CONFIG_M486, and CONFIG_MELAN Kconfig build options. It's that patch that looks destined for…
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Linux's KVM With CET Virtualization Is Causing Some Hosts To Hang
…CET is a hardware-based security feature to prevent against common ROP and COP/JOP attacks. While Control-flow Enforcement Technology has been working out well for traditional usage outside of virtualized…
Linux Patch Introduces Panther Lake R: Ruggedized Version Of Panther Lake
Linux Patch Introduces Panther Lake R: Ruggedized Version Of Panther Lake Written by Michael Larabel in Intel on 15 May 2026 at 02:55 PM EDT. 3 Comments A new patch for…
Linux 7.0.6 Released To Finish Mitigating the Dirty Frag Vulnerability
…The lone patch making up Linux 7.0.6 is " rxrpc: Also unshare DATA/RESPONSE packets when paged frags are present " for fixing an RXRPC issue from 2019. In addition to Linux…
Intel LASS In Good Shape For Linux 7.1
…Linux Patch Introduces Panther Lake R: Ruggedized Version Of Panther Lake Intel's Cache Aware Scheduling Inches Closer To Being Merged For Linux Linux Driver Posted For Intel Silicon Security Engine Interface…
AMD PMC Linux Driver Preps For Zen 6 CPUs
…This patch series takes care of the needed AMD PMC Linux driver changes for those upcoming processors. We'll see if these patches manage to make it for next month's Linux…
Linux 7.1 Adds New AMD SMCA Bank Types, Presumably For Upcoming EPYC Venice
…AMD Secure Processor V2 (SMCA_MPASP_V2) - Microprocessor Manageability Core (SMCA_MPM) - MP for RAS (SMCA_MPRAS) - SMCA_MPRAS (SMCA_PCIE_PL) - Die to Die Interconnect (SMCA_SSBDCI) The patches don't…
New NTFS Linux Driver Being Improved For Windows Native Symbolic Links
…Open-source developer Hyunchul Lee today posted a set of patches in working on this native symbolic links support for the new NTFS driver. This allows parsing and following Windows native symbolic…
Torvalds: AI Tools Great When Not Causing Unnecessary Pain & Pointless Make-Believe Work
With yesterday's Linux 7.1-rc4 release are some additional comments by Linux creator Linus Torvalds around AI tooling and the surge in security bug reporting to the Linux kernel due…
Intel Posts Fourth Version Of Cache Aware Scheduling For Linux
…Linux Patch Introduces Panther Lake R: Ruggedized Version Of Panther Lake Intel's Cache Aware Scheduling Inches Closer To Being Merged For Linux Linux Driver Posted For Intel Silicon Security Engine Interface…