Intel Clearwater Forest processors made an appearance in a Linux kernel patch which was shared earlier today. This is significant, as Phoronix notes, because it is the first patch addressing Clearwater Forest, an upcoming all E-Core Xeon processor family that is expected to launch sometime in 2025. Moreover, in the patch notes, we see that Clearwater Forest chips will use Atom Darkmont cores.
As a first patch, the support for Clearwater Forest delivered in this release is extremely limited. This is typically the way things happen, though, and it is still pleasing to see information at such an early stage. Specifically, all the developers have added to this new Linux kernel patch concerning Clearwater Forest is the new 0xDD (221) model number for these CPUs. Additionally, the patch appears to confirm that Clearwater Forest Xeons will use Intel’s Atom Darkmont (18A) cores.
