Intel PECI Code To Be Mainlined With Linux 5.18

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Intel PECI Code To Be Mainlined With Linux 5.18

Linux 5.18 is looking to be another very busy kernel cycle for Intel as in addition to Alder Lake N graphics, the Intel Hardware Feedback Interface (HFI), and integrating Software Defined Silicon (SDSi), Intel's PECI kernel code is finally being mainlined...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Intel-PECI-Linux-5.18

[milkylainen]

Certainly looks like busy times at the Intel acronym generator department.

[coder]

Certainly looks like busy times at the Intel acronym generator department.

First sentence, second paragraph:

"Intel's Platform Environment Control Interface (PECI) dates back to the mid-2000s with Core 2 Duo processors as their thermal management standard."

[milkylainen]

First sentence, second paragraph:

"Intel's Platform Environment Control Interface (PECI) dates back to the mid-2000s with Core 2 Duo processors as their thermal management standard."

My bad then. Linux is busy integrating decades old acronyms from the Intel acronym generator department?
PECI, HECI?

[TanMan1217]

By adding this code to a GIT repository, Intel will allow anyone to reverse engineer PECI. So keeping the doc private while releasing the interface code publicly seems awfully stupid.