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ARM64 Updates For The Linux 4.12 Kernel

Written by Michael Larabel in Linux Kernel on 6 May 2017 at 06:54 AM EDT. 4 Comments

The ARM64 architecture (AArch64) updates have been queued for the Linux 4.12 kernel.

With the ARM64 changes for Linux 4.12 comes kdump support, ARMv8.3 HWCAP bits, ACPI platform MSI support, perf updates, KVM refactoring, and various other changes affecting this ARM 64-bit architecture code.

Details on all the ARM64 changes for Linux 4.12 via this pull request.

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