{"id":244736,"date":"2026-01-18T12:29:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T12:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/244736\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T12:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T12:29:08","slug":"linuxs-intel-speed-select-tool-will-allow-non-root-use-with-linux-7-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/244736\/","title":{"rendered":"Linux&#8217;s Intel-Speed-Select Tool Will Allow Non-Root Use With Linux 7.0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"INTEL\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/intel.webp.webp\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/><br \/>\nThe intel-speed-select tool that lives within the Linux kernel source tree for allowing some control over Intel Speed Select Technology (SST) and managing of clock frequencies \/ performance behavior will finally allow limited non-root usage.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of the Linux 6.20~7.0 kernel cycle, a <a href=\"https:\/\/lore.kernel.org\/platform-driver-x86\/ffe8dca9514f0ddc1135840644b0986b48972cd0.camel@intel.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">pull request<\/a> to the x86 platform driver maintainers has been submitted with updates to the intel-speed-select tool.&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>Most notable with the intel-speed-select tool update is beginning to allow for non-root use. Rather than just always bailing out if detecting a non-root user, intel-speed-select tool will now see if the \/dev\/isst_interface device can be opened by the current user. If \/dev\/isst_interface can at least be opened, intel-speed-select will now at least run and allow for read-only commands to be properly handled.&#13;<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1768739348_363_image.webp\" alt=\"Intel CPUs\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Obviously non-root users can&#8217;t alter the Intel SST state but at least useful for those wanting to query various attributes via intel-speed-select without having to launch the program as root. Barring no last minute issues, that intel-speed-select update will be merged for the next Linux kernel merge window in February.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The intel-speed-select tool that lives within the Linux kernel source tree for allowing some control over Intel Speed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244737,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[78437,85,46,78436,78434,78433,78440,78438,78435,78439,78432,78443,125,78441,78442],"class_list":{"0":"post-244736","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-desktop-linux","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-linux-benchmarking","12":"tag-linux-hardware-benchmarks","13":"tag-linux-hardware-reviews","14":"tag-linux-how-to","15":"tag-linux-performance","16":"tag-linux-server-benchmarks","17":"tag-open-source-graphics","18":"tag-phoronix","19":"tag-phoronix-test-suite","20":"tag-technology","21":"tag-ubuntu-benchmarks","22":"tag-ubuntu-hardware"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}