… Mark the platform as orphaned, remove the dead link, and update the files list to include the platform code." The One Laptop Per Child XO-1 was one of the most notable users of AMD Geode from the Linux perspective but there are other embedded systems out there. …
… For those CPU vendors using the generic CPPC Linux driver, CPPC v4 support is being wired up by NVIDIA. …
… Coreboot + AMD openSIL Powered Firmware Published For The Gigabyte MZ33-AR1 New AMD Dynamic EPP Feature Causing Some Problems With Linux 7.1 AMD Preps More AIE4 NPU Hardware Enablement For AMDXDNA Driver In Linux 7.2 OpenAI's Coding Agent Helped Create A New AMD Temperature Driver For Linux AMD's L…
… The M486 Kconfig option is for 486-class CPUs such as the AMD/Cyrix/IBM/Intel 486DX/DX2/DX4 and UMC U5D. Lastly the MELAN option is for the AMD Elan processor. The patch made it this week into tip/tip.git's "x86/platform" Git branch. …
… 73 Comments Beyond Linux 7.1 beginning to phase out Intel 486 CPU support , this next Linux kernel version is also beginning to remove driver code for supporting Russia's Baikal CPUs. The Baikal CPUs were Russia's plans for replacing Intel / AMD CPUs with their own domestic processors . …
… Qualcomm Mahua as a Glymur variant with just 12 CPU cores is also upstream. - Qualcomm Eliza is now upstream as an embedded platform for SM7750-based mobile phones and IOT deployments as the QC7790S/M. - The Qualcomm IPQ5210 wireless networking SoC is yet another Qualcomm SoC now upstream for Linux… …
… Coreboot + AMD openSIL Powered Firmware Published For The Gigabyte MZ33-AR1 New AMD Dynamic EPP Feature Causing Some Problems With Linux 7.1 AMD Preps More AIE4 NPU Hardware Enablement For AMDXDNA Driver In Linux 7.2 OpenAI's Coding Agent Helped Create A New AMD Temperature Driver For Linux AMD's L…
… The CPPC Performance Priority lets user-space assign different floor performance levels to different CPU cores. The platform firmware will interpret these floor performance levels for consideration when throttling CPU cores under power and/or thermal constraints. …
… New command-line options: --soc-slider-balance value --soc-slider-offset value --platform-profile name These options allow control of the processor thermal SOC slider balance and offset through the processor thermal soc slider module, as well as the platform profile class interface. …
… The Memtest86+ 8.10 release also provides better support for Intel Lunar Lake and Intel Panther Lake platforms. There is also better bandwidth measurement of CPU caches and RAM. …