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RISC-V chips will support replacing RAM sticks without powering off the system — hot plugging functionality arriving in newer flavors of Linux
According to a report from Phoronix, version 6.11 of the mainline Linux kernel, which seems set to launch soon, will add support for RISC-V memory hot plugging. The Linux kernel already offered ...
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RISC-V systems support replacing RAM sticks WITHOUT powering off the system
meaning you can pull RAM sticks out of your PC without turning it off... very nice. The Linux kernel already supported this RAM hot-swappable feature for other CPU architectures, but for the long ...