Linux 7.1 Is A Big Win For Intel Panther Lake With FRED Now Enabled By Default

Linux 7.1 Is A Big Win For Intel Panther Lake With FRED Now Enabled By Default

Last month I ran benchmarks showing the very positive performance impact FRED has on Intel’s new Panther Lake processors while wondering why Flexible Return and Event Deliver wasn’t enabled by default yet on Linux. Hours after that story was published, an Intel engineer posted the patch to enable FRED by default with the rationale they were waiting for hardware to be publicly released in orde… https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-Enabled-Intel-FRED