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Linux 6.11-rc1 Released With Initial Intel Battlemage Support, AMD RDNA4 Primed
The Linux 6.11 merge window is over with the Linux 6.11-rc1 release now out the door.
On the CPU side there is RISC-V NUMA support for ACPI-based systems, some small performance gains at least for Threadripper Zen 4, performance event improvements for more Intel CPUs, AES-GCM optimized versions for AVX-512/AVX10 and VAES, AMD Core Performance Boost and Fast CPPC were added to the AMD P-State driver, and AMD SEV-SNP KVM guest support is finally mainlined. AMD RDNA4 (GFX12) graphics cards also appear to be in preliminary good shape with Linux 6.11. Other changes include UBIFS being hardened against power cuts, a minimum Rust toolchain version is now defined, getrandom() in the vDSO, a nice EXT4 performance optimization, the upstream kernel can now easily build a Pacman kernel package for Arch Linux systems, a new power sequencing subsystem, and more.
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