Linux 3.19 Kernel To Start 2015 With Many New Features

An anonymous reader writes Linux 3.18 was recently released, thus making Linux 3.19 the version under development as the year comes to a close. Linux 3.19 as the first big kernel update of 2015 is bringing in the new year with many new features: among them are AMDKFD HSA kernel driver, Intel "Skylake" graphics support, Radeon and NVIDIA driver improvements, RAID5/6 improvements for Btrfs, LZ4 compression for SquashFS, better multi-touch support, new input drivers, x86 laptop improvements, etc.

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System Hardware. Or yum install hardinfo

[raymorris]

The kernel and friends manage hotplug devices quite nicely.
I take that to mean you want a clickity-click GUI, so you can see what the system has already detected and handled properly for you, and do things without needing to understand what you're doing. If that's what you're looking for, hardinfo is a well-known option. Your choice of graphical desktop environment probably has one it provides by default as well. Look under "System" or similar.

Re:systemd?

[phantomfive]

The Linux kernel is depricated[sic] - systemd will take over its functionality.

+1 hilarious.

Re:systemd?

[Barsteward]

"but SystemD has implemented it poorly." - thats a matter of opinion

"SystemD is pioneering the idea" - surely Sun, Apple and Ubuntu have similar in place before systemd came about.

Lockup issue

[xluap]

Has the lockup issue been solved?

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.p...

Re:Lockup issue

[fredboboss]

yes:

http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1411.3/04672.html/

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85941/

Re:Lockup issue

[jones_supa]

That's something different.

See this LKML page. Search with CTRL+F for "frequent lockups in 3.18rc4".

The thread is clearly still going on. As far as I can tell, the bug has not been fixed.

Re:Lockup issue

[Anonymous Coward]

As far as I know, they found the cause (it seems the kernel doesn't handle well some clock issues and clock overflow), and Linus send a RFC-like patch that kinda "fixes" the thing but it is so hackish that it needs to be discussed, generalized and ironed out. DaveJ doesn't have access to the hardware triggering the issue anymore, so it may be a while before they can actually fix it in a proper manner.

On the way to figuring out the cause for that bug, they found other lockup issues with similar symptoms but completely different causes and fixed them.

Re:System Hardware. Or yum install hardinfo

[hairyfeet]

Which leads us to the sadly all too true obligatory XKCD which is why Linux on the desktop is so low its getting its ass handed to it by "other" and has gotten so low its literally below the margin for error.

Considering that every time Linux starts to get stable the devs take a big steaming shit on it, Pulse, KDE 4, Gnome 3, Systemd, not to mention Torvalds constant kernel fiddling, is anybody really surprised by the plummeting numbers? Its a damned shame but as long as devs would rather put out yet another release instead of fixing the bugs in the previous release Linux will always remain in alpha quality.