For those not keeping up to date on all of the Phoronix articles covering the Linux 3.15 kernel changes that landed in the past week, here’s a recap of the changes that were merged so far half-way through the Linux 3.15 merge window.
– EFI mixed mode support to allow 64-bit Linux kernels to be booted from 32-bit system UEFI firmwares.
– AVX-512 instruction support for future Intel processors.