Linux 5.12 To Expose Firmware Performance Data

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Linux 5.12 To Expose Firmware Performance Data

Last week saw the main set of ACPI and power management updates for Linux 5.12 while for the second week of the merge window has been the follow-up work with Intel Simple Firmware Interface removal and also an additional ACPI update...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-5.12-ACPI-FPDT

[ThoreauHD]

If this functions on AMD 5xx mobos(agesa), perhaps it would useful in diagnosing their pcie4(gen 4) to usb error issues.

[Danny3]

Great!
Hopefully systemd can display more info or more detailed info about the boot process.

[Teggs]

I hope this leads to improvements for people with systems that spend 30 seconds+ in firmware on boot. You have to know where the problem is before you can b̶i̶t̶c̶h̶ ̶a̶t̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶p̶e̶r̶s̶o̶n̶ ̶r̶e̶s̶p̶o̶n̶s̶i̶b̶l̶e̶ fix it.

[creative]

5.12 is looking to be a pretty big release.