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Sent in to DRM-Next as part of last week's drm-misc-next changes is implementing support for tracking cleared free memory and is initially wired up for the AMDGPU kernel graphics driver.
Queued up as part of the DeviceMapper dm-crypt changes for Linux 6.10 is adding a new 'high priority' option.
For now Fedora / Red Hat is not making any immediate changes, but the ever increasing sizes of required GPU firmware files is causing Linux distribution vendors to re-think including GPU kernel graphics drivers as part of the initramfs.
Intel motherboard manufacturers have begun rolling out BIOS updates containing an 'Intel Baseline Profile' option to apply stock power limits to modern Intel processors.