An Unnamed x86 CPU Has Run Legacy-Free for a Year
A request to document 64-bit-only behaviour for the Linux kernel describes an x86 part that dropped the modes Intel decided to keep, and says it has been in service for over a year.
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GeForce On Streams Today With DLSS 4.5 Expected, and Zen 6 Reaches Linux Early
NVIDIA's Gamescom stream airs with DLSS 4.5 Ray Reconstruction widely expected, and AMD's Zen 6 overclocking plumbing reaches the Linux kernel months ahead of the silicon.
A Two-Instruction Gap in AMD’s Spectre v2 Defense, Now Closed
MIT researchers found a two-instruction timing gap that let interrupts defeat AMD's Safe RET mitigation on Zen 1 through Zen 4. The kernel fix was already merged before disclosure; separately, Linux 7.2-rc6 untangles a Zen 5/Zen 6 ID mixup.
A Legion Go BIOS Is Bricking Handhelds, and NVIDIA Joins the Linux Firmware Pipeline
Owners report Lenovo's N3CN42WW BIOS leaving first-generation Legion Go handhelds unbootable, NVIDIA becomes the fourth premier sponsor of LVFS, and Proton 11.0-2 lands as a release candidate.
AM5 Gets Its First Open-Source Firmware, and Zen 6 Starts Landing in Linux
One retail B850 board now boots on coreboot and openSIL, with a very short CPU list, while Zen 6's per-core performance floors are already merged in mainline Linux.