News stories tagged with #7.1-rc6
With the release of Linux Kernel 7.1-rc6, AMD has expanded the range of recognized Zen 6 CPU model numbers up to 239, reserving an additional 32 slots for future Ryzen and EPYC processors. Concurrently, documentation for the 'clearcpuid' feature is being removed in this version to discourage its use in production environments due to security risks it poses if CPU features are hidden from user-space applications. Linus Torvalds described the development week as unusually busy, noting that significant code churn was partly driven by AI and LLM coding agents. While smaller than the previous release candidate, the update remains larger than desired due to extensive driver updates across networking, GPU, and USB subsystems.