Linux 6.9 Lands Reworked Topology Code For Better Hybrid CPU Support
The recently covered overhaul of the x86 CPU topology code to clean-up quite a code mess has been merged for Linux 6.9
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The recently covered overhaul of the x86 CPU topology code to clean-up quite a code mess has been merged for Linux 6.9
Longtime Linux kernel developer Thomas Gleixner with Intel-owned Linutronix has been spending much time over the past several months reworking the Linux kernel's x86 CPU topology evaluation code
Recently there has been a fair amount of work done to clean-up the Intel/AMD x86 CPU microcode loading on Linux that has now been merged for Linux 6.7.
Ankur Arora of Oracle on Tuesday sent out a set of 86 patches for making the Linux kernel preemptible
Linux 6.6 is set to be released as stable this weekend unless Linus Torvalds has reservations and decides to extend the cycle by one week