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Tenstorrent Blackhole Support & Other New RISC-V + ARM64 Hardware In Linux 6.19

([Hardware] 4 Hours Ago Linux 6.19 SoCs)


The set of six branches containing SoC and platform updates/additions for the [1]Linux 6.19 kernel have been merged for enabling a lot of new RISC-V and ARM 64-bit hardware as well as enhancing some existing SoCs/platforms.

Arnd Bergmann sent out all of the SoC updates/additions on Friday for the ongoing Linux 6.19 merge window. There is some exciting new hardware, Device Trees for some new ARM machines, and more:

- Initial support for the [2]Tenstorrent Blackhole ! The support is quite rudimentary/basic but it's a start for mainline kernel support with Tenstorrent hardware.

- Support for the [3]Black Sesame C1200 automotive SoC.

- Support for the Anlogic dr1v90 (yes, Anlogic not Amlogic) FPGA platform using a single Nuclei UX900 RISC-V core.

- Renesas R-Car X5H (R8A78000) is now added as a new automotive SoC with 16 x Arm Cortex-A720 cores.

- The TI AM62L SoC is also added as a new GPU-less industrial SoC.

- The Qualcomm Snapdragon 430 (MSM8937) is finally upstream as an older mobile phone SoC based on the Arm Cortex A-53.

- The ASUS Zenbook A14 with Snapdragon X Plus X1P42100 SoC is now supported by the mainline kernel.

- The Lenovo ThinkBook 16 with the Snapdragon X Plus X1P42100 SoC is also now supported by mainline.

- Mainline support for the RISC-V [4]StarFive VisionFive 2 Lite .

- A new driver for cache management on CXL devices with memory shared in a coherent cluster.

See [5]the pull requests for more details on these many additions for Linux 6.19.



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/search/Linux+6.19

[2] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Tenstorrent-Blackhole-Linux-619

[3] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Black-Sesame-SoC-Linux-6.19

[4] https://www.phoronix.com/news/VisionFive-2-Lite-Linux-Patches

[5] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/334684ec-5796-47a4-b9f4-96c60f449634@app.fastmail.com/



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