Linux Kernel 5.5 Ready with Shiny New Features
Here is the new Linux Kernel announced by Linus Torvald is hereafter the last release of 5.4 in November and has some interesting features in it. The biggest being support for Raspberry Pie 4 and System 76 Coreboot support in the mainline kernel
Highlights:
- Raspberry Pi 4 support
- AMDGPU “Navi” overclocking support
- Work on bringing up Intel Gen12/Xe graphics.
- Btrfs’ RAID improvement
- Support for new Loongson processors.
- EXT4’s native file-system encryption with FSCRYPT now works with smaller block sizes.
- Mainline driver for reporting NVMe solid-state drive temperatures
- A driver for System76 ACPI Coreboot laptops.
- A new Logitech keyboard driver.
- KUnit as an in-kernel unit testing framework.
As announced by Linux:
So this last week was pretty quiet, and while we had a late network update with some (mainly iwl wireless) network driver and netfilter module loading fixes – there’s a panfrost driver update too, but again it didn’t really seem to make sense to delay the final release by another week…
… That means that the merge window for 5.6 will open tomorrow,
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