News It seems Intel wants to revive Intel Upgrade Service

[moinmoin]

You remember Intel Upgrade Service? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Upgrade_Service

Phoronix reports Intel is now pushing a driver into the Linux kernel with the same purpose:
The Intel Software Defined Silicon (SDSi) driver is for supporting the "post-manufacturing mechanism for activating additional silicon features."

"Intel Software Defined Silicon" Coming To Linux For Activating Extra Licensed Hardware Features - Phoronix

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While this is apparently "only" for Xeon server chips for now this is a worrying precedence. I honestly hope its inclusion into the kernel is rejected.

 

[igor_kavinski]

Hopefully, it's just AVX-512 and not AVX2. As Ian once said, there are probably only a handful of people who can properly write AVX-512 code in the entire world. Libreoffice gave up on even AVX2 recently because it didn't make that much of an improvement compared to their SSE codepath.

AVX/AVX-512 Tuning Doesn't Payoff For LibreOffice's Calc Spreadsheets - Phoronix

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[Thibsie]

Ah, learning from Tesla huh ? 😱