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Intel's next-gen Adams Lake CPUs with Douglas Cove P-Core & Cooper Forest with Sheldonmont E-Core architectures have been exposed in patches.

Copy Last week, Linux kernel contributor Qu Wenruo scolded another code donor, Zhen Lei, for wasting kernel maintainers time with unnecessary patches. In a post to Zhen Lei and the rest of the Linux kernel mailing list, Wenruo said he recently found a patch removing a debug out-of-memory error message from a selftest used by btrfs, a file system supported by the Linux kernel. "Its nothing special, some small cleanup work from some kernel newbie," wrote Wenruo. "But the mail address makes me cau...