Intel has begun to increase support for its codenamed Lunar Lake system to Linux motorists. So considerably, the organization has additional help for community controllers that will be employed for its CPUs in the coming yrs, but the addition obviously suggests that the business is working on a little something termed Lunar Lake.
Intel not too long ago extra support for its Lunar Lake platform to the present e1000e community driver that previously supports these kinds of solutions as Tiger Lake and Alder Lake, reports Phoronix. This hardware enablement will be mainlined with Linux 5.15, when released this autumn. As a consequence, when Lunar Lake launches many years down the street, its community capabilities will be supported in Linux.
A speedy verify of what has been enabled indicates that Intel’s Lunar Lake platform will continue to use a edition of the company’s I219 GbE controller. Clearly, practically nothing can halt Pc makers from setting up a much more highly developed 2.5GbE, 5GbE or 10GbE controller into their units.
At existing, we do not know a lot about Lunar Lake, but it appears to be like we are dealing with a item that will do well Meteor Lake, which is due in 2023. Hence, Lunar Lake is some thing that is established to arrive in 2024. Holding in brain the truth that Meteor Lake is set to use chiplet architecture (which was confirmed by Intel’s CEO Pat Gelsinger quite a few months in the past), we can speculate that Lunar Lake will also use a chiplet design and style.
One particular of the most exciting sections about Lunar Lake is which CPU microarchitecture will it use. Intel introduced its very first ‘Cove’ (Sunny Cove in Ice Lake CPUs) microarchitecture back again in 2019. Normally, CPU builders tend to radically alter their microarchitectures at the time in five several years or so. That said, there are some chances that Lunar Lake will be basically use an all-new microarchitecture, but this is of system a speculation at this point.