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Linux Preps For New "SoC Power Slider" With Upcoming Panther Lake
While it looked like Linux 6.17 was going to be a good baseline for support with upcoming Intel Panther Lake powered laptops given that this next kernel release ships with the Xe3 graphics enabled by default and other bits coming together, it looks like there is at least one late item only being presented today in patch form: a new 'SoC Power Slider' feature as part of the Intel thermal driver for this new feature of Panther Lake SoCs.
While it looked like Linux 6.17 was going to be a good baseline for support with upcoming Intel Panther Lake powered laptops given that this next kernel release ships with the Xe3 graphics enabled by default and other bits coming together, it looks like there is at least one late item only being presented today in patch form: a new "SoC Power Slider" feature as part of the Intel thermal driver for this new feature of Panther Lake SoCs. "Add support for system wide energy performance preference using a SoC slider interface defined via processor thermal PCI device MMIO space. With the first Intel Panther Lake hardware expected to debut later this year, these Intel thermal driver patches for this SoC Power Slider feature are coming rather late and months after a lot of the other Panther Lake code was already upstreamed into the Linux kernel...
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