It appears the kernel commit listed here has already landed in upstream 4.10 and thus also available in the Artful kernel. Marking the linux task Fix Released. I have added a task for qemu to confirm those commits are integrated already as well.
commit 4504b5c9414c55da37f26b1faf49c09a2acbf255 Author: Luwei Kang <luwei.k...@intel.com> Date: Mon Nov 7 14:03:20 2016 +0800 kvm: x86: Add AVX512_4VNNIW and AVX512_4FMAPS support ** Information type changed from Proprietary to Public ** Also affects: linux (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: qemu (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: qemu (Ubuntu Artful) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: linux (Ubuntu Artful) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu Artful) Status: New => Fix Released ** Changed in: qemu (Ubuntu Artful) Importance: Undecided => Medium ** Changed in: qemu (Ubuntu Artful) Status: New => Triaged ** Changed in: qemu (Ubuntu Artful) Assignee: (unassigned) => ChristianEhrhardt (paelzer) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1712232 Title: [Feature] KNM: KNM NIs Enabling Status in intel: New Status in linux package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in qemu package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in linux source package in Artful: Fix Released Status in qemu source package in Artful: Triaged Bug description: KNM NIs Enabling, including avx512 4vnniw, 4fmaps, vpopcntdq AVX512_4VNNIW and AVX512_4FMAPS Linux kernel commit id: 4504b5c9414c55da37f26b1faf49c09a2acbf255 QEMU commit id: 95ea69fb46266aaa46d0c8b7f0ba8c4903dbe4e3 AVX512_VPOPCNTDQ QEMU commit id: f77543772dcd38fa438470d9b80bafbd3a3ebbd7 This feature should have been merged to 17.10 beta1. Create it for track. Target Release: 17.10 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/intel/+bug/1712232/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp