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Linux 6.17 Introducing Support For The NVIDIA Tegra T264/Thor, New RISC-V SoCs


In advance of the Linux 6.17 merge window expected to open soon following the Linux 6.16 release, all of the SoC updates have been submitted to Linus Torvalds for this next kernel version.

There are new Arm and RISC-V SoCs being supported with Linux 6.17 plus enabling a number of new laptops, developer boards, smartphones, and other devices. The NVIDIA Tegra T264 is expected to be the "Thor" SoC with fourteen Arm Neoverse V3AE cores and a Blackwell GPU. - There are 33 newly enabled boards/machines such as various evaluation/developer platforms, six 32-bit industrial boards for different SoCs, two ASpeed BMC-based motherboards, and some phones/tablets.

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