Linux 4.3
Straight to the new features of this kernel. On the processors support there are new ARM SoC support and ARMv8.1 functionality is now integrated. Many updates in the power management of many drivers...
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A new long time support linux kernel has been released. Let’s see its new feature. This release introduces support of Direct I/O and asynchronous I/O for the loop block device. The advantages to use...
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Linux 4.5 is out. Let’s see its prominent features. A new tool called UBSAN checks a running kernel for various types of undefined behaviour that can lead to obscure bugs. The new...
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Linux 4.6 kernel is out. Now we finally have mainline support for a number of new ARM SoCs and platforms/boards. There are various Radeon and AMDGPU improvements to make the open-source AMD graphics...
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Linux 4.7 kernel has been released. Here’s a recap of some of the biggest features. Radeon RX 480 “Polaris” open-source support. With Linux 4.7 there is all the initial AMDGPU DRM support needed for...
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This release adds support for using Transparent Huge Pages, bigger than 4K (in x86), in the page cache (used for backing filesystem data) automatically without user intervention. This release adds...
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This long term release adds several key features to the XFS file system, based on the reverse mapping work introduced in the previous release. This release adds the ability to share data extents...
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This release adds support for Intel GVT-g for KVM (KVMGT), a full GPU virtualization solution with mediated pass-through, starting from 4th generation Intel Core (Haswell) processors with Intel...
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This release adds support for pluggable I/O schedulers framework in the multiqueue block layer. The Linux block layer has different I/O schedulers (deadline, cfq, noop, etc) with different performance...
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Initial Radeon RX Vega support has been added. But for Linux 4.12 this is very initial support for these soon-to-launch GPUs. But don’t get too excited as the DC display code didn’t make it for this...
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