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Linux 6.10-rc2 Will Fix Booting Intel Quark CPUs & Problems With Old AMD CPUs


Ahead of today's Linux 6.10-rc2 kerne weekly test release a few 'x86/urgent' patches were submitted for addressing some fallout on Intel and AMD processors.

Ahead of today's Linux 6.10-rc2 kerne weekly test release a few "x86/urgent" patches were submitted for addressing some fallout on Intel and AMD processors. Due to an unintended change last year, bad things will happen in the kernel if the default cache line size can not be enumerated. The change marked for Linux 6.10-rc2 and to be back-ported to stable kernel versions is to assume a default cache line size of 32 (rather than 0) if it can't otherwise be enumerated by the processor.

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