• onlinepersona@programming.dev
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    12 hours ago

    More surprising is that it’s taken ~4 years for these Linux kernel patches to materialize with Zen 3 having first debuted in late 2020.

    Reminder: Linux kernel funding is 2% of the Linux foundation’s 200M$/year budget.

    Anti Commercial-AI license

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      18 hours ago

      the Linux kernel hasn’t widely made use of INVLPGB… In part because Intel engineers typically carry out much of the new x86 instruction optimizations within the Linux kernel and Intel processors do not currently support INVLPGB.

      Sounds like AMD needs to fund more kernel development.