AMD SBI Driver Preps For EPYC Venice With Linux 7.1
The Linux kernel continues getting ready for AMD's upcoming Zen 6 processors.
The past few months the patch flow has continued picking up for the Linux kernel and related open-source projects like the GNU and LLVM toolchains for AMD Zen 6 at large and of course an important and special emphasis for the EPYC "Venice" platforms. For Linux 7.1 there's been new AMD SMCA bank types added, FRED enabled by default, AVX-512 BMM for KVM guest VMs, new AMD P-State features, and more.
Ahead of the Linux 7.1 merge window closing on Sunday, today's char/misc pull request has brought a bit more. The AMD Side Band Interface "AMD SBI" driver now has EPYC Venice platform support. The AMD SBI driver is used for various system management features on EPYC servers as part of AMD's Advanced Platform Management Link (APML).
A set of four amd-sbi driver patches are queued for Linux 7.1 in making the necessary modifications for supporting AMD EPYC Venice platforms. Venice is the successor to the current-generation AMD EPYC 9005 "Turin" processors.
Beyond that there are other small driver changes, new IIO drivers, and other routine code churn as part of the char/misc pull request sent out this morning by Linux developer Greg Kroah-Hartman.
The past few months the patch flow has continued picking up for the Linux kernel and related open-source projects like the GNU and LLVM toolchains for AMD Zen 6 at large and of course an important and special emphasis for the EPYC "Venice" platforms. For Linux 7.1 there's been new AMD SMCA bank types added, FRED enabled by default, AVX-512 BMM for KVM guest VMs, new AMD P-State features, and more.
Ahead of the Linux 7.1 merge window closing on Sunday, today's char/misc pull request has brought a bit more. The AMD Side Band Interface "AMD SBI" driver now has EPYC Venice platform support. The AMD SBI driver is used for various system management features on EPYC servers as part of AMD's Advanced Platform Management Link (APML).
A set of four amd-sbi driver patches are queued for Linux 7.1 in making the necessary modifications for supporting AMD EPYC Venice platforms. Venice is the successor to the current-generation AMD EPYC 9005 "Turin" processors.
Beyond that there are other small driver changes, new IIO drivers, and other routine code churn as part of the char/misc pull request sent out this morning by Linux developer Greg Kroah-Hartman.