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Intel Linux Driver Preps For Up To 13 Different Panther Lake H SoCs

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It looks like the upcoming Intel Panther Lake H SoCs for the next-gen premium/high-end performance laptop market there could be quite a few different SKUs. A new patch for an Intel open-source driver expands the Panther Lake H line-up from three to 13 different IDs.

Queued last week for the Intel IGEN6 Error Detection And Correction "EDAC" driver is adding support for more Panther Lake H SoCs. There were already three Panther Lake H device IDs in this driver but ten more were added to bring the total count of PTL-H device IDs to 13. The IGEN6 EDAC driver is used for in-band ECC (IBECC) on capable designs for dealing with memory controller error reporting. Each device ID is for a different compute die ID.

[1]This patch rounding out the Panther Lake H SoC device count to 13 is queued into the "edac-for-next" Git branch of the RAS.git tree. Thus it should be merged as part of the upcoming Linux 6.20~7.0 kernel cycle opening up in February.

Thirteen different compute die IDs is quite a lot considering between Arrow Lake U / H were just three different compute die IDs in the same EDAC driver. The next closest was Alder Lake N with 12 SKUs or going back to Elkhart Lake 15 different SKUs. Given the increased number with ADL-N and Elkart Lake also appearing in a number of thin form factor devices and other uses beyond traditional "-H" level laptops, perhaps Intel with Panther Lake H is also anticipating increased roles across different markets.



[1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ras/ras.git/commit/?h=edac-for-next&id=4c36e6106997b6ad8f4a279b4bdbca3ed6f53c6c



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