Moreover, the intel_idle driver now handles Granite Rapids Xeon processors natively, the intel_rapl power capping driver now recognizes family 1Ah of AMD processors and Intel ArrowLake-U chips, and the intel_pstate driver now handles Granite Rapids and Sierra Forest chips in the out-of-band (OOB) mode. Also, Linux 6.12 rewrites PCM buffer allocation handling and locking optimizations, and improves the USB audio driver.