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Tucked away within a merge to Mesa entitled, 'intel/genxml: Support importing, which cuts the overall xml file size almost in half' Intel Linux graphics driver engineers are slowly beginning to start work on the 'Xe2' graphics support to be found with Lunar Lake processors.
The decision last month for the Linux kernel to disable random number generation (RNG) for all AMD fTPMs ended up having some unintended consequences on Intel systems that ended up breaking S3 suspend behavior.
The perf event changes were submitted this week for the ongoing Linux 6.6 kernel merge window with changes this cycle for Intel, AMD, and Arm.
The Linux mitigation for the Intel Gather Data Sampling (GDS) 'Downfall' vulnerability was updated to reflect all Skylake and Kabylake CPUs being vulnerable to this nasty issue
Intel engineer Ilpo Järvinen posted a set of Linux kernel driver patches to introduce a new 'bwctrl' PCI Express Bandwidth Controller driver and associated PCIe cooling driver to allow for limiting the PCIe link speed in the event of any system thermal issues.