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AMD STB Support Extended To Latest Ryzen 9000 Series Desktop CPUs

It turns out the latest AMD Ryzen desktop processors offer support for AMD Smart Trace Buffer (STB) that previously was only limited to mobile platforms.

Sent out today were a set of eight Linux kernel patches around the AMD Platform Management Controller (PMC) driver. As previously explained of AMD Smart Trace Buffer, it's a debugging facility to help analyze the last feature that was running on the system before hitting a failure. The 8 patch series also prepares STB support for Family 1Ah Model 70h processors as well as updating the IP information for newer SoCs.

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