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Intel APX Ready With Linux 6.16, Outdated Intel CPU Microcode Reporting Merged
Merged for the Linux 6.16 kernel are all of the x86 core enhancements that provide a variety of benefits to Intel as well as AMD processors.
Merged for the Linux 6.16 kernel are all of the x86 core enhancements that provide a variety of benefits to Intel as well as AMD processors. what was previously covered on Phoronix within Intel Linux Patch Would Report Outdated CPU Microcode As A Security Vulnerability. Some of the other x86 core changes for Linux 6.16 include improved code-patching scalability, simplifying the 32-bit PAE page table handling, making 5-level paging support on x86_64 unconditional, a fix for the Intel Spectre V2 mitigation handling by default on Intel CPUs, and a lot of other Intel/AMD CPU code refactoring.
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