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Rework For Intel CPU Model Handling To Land With Linux 6.10
Intel engineers have been reworking Intel CPU model handling for Linux after using 'Family 6' since the mid-90's with the P6 micro-architecture and continuing to rev the model ID only with new micro-architectural generations
It's an end of the era for Family 6 coming up and thus there's a lot of Linux patches being worked on to address assumptions within the kernel code that was only checking for an Intel CPU's model ID and not for any family ID differences. Long story short, those patches for changing the way the Intel CPU models are defined and check are poised to land with the upcoming Linux 6.10 kernel cycle. With the patches now hitting an x86 TIP.git branch, they'll be submitted for next month's Linux 6.10 merge window barring any last minute issues being raised.
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