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Linux 6.16 Will Begin Reporting The Cause Of Your AMD Zen System Being Reset/Rebooted
In the event of your AMD Ryzen or EPYC system being randomly reset or unexpectedly rebooted under Linux, the Linux kernel with the upcoming Linux 6.16 cycle is gaining the ability to report the reason for that reset
This is making use of a technical capability found going back to the AMD Zen 1 processors that the Linux kernel is now tapping into for reporting the cause of any previous system reset. This patch adding the capability to report the reason for the last reset on AMD hardware was queued into tip/tip.git's x86/platform branch and thus material ready for the upcoming Linux 6.16 merge window. Also queuing by way of tip/tip.git is the AMD Zen debugging documentation guide that has been worked on the past number of weeks.
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