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Linux 4.5 Adds Raspberry Pi 2 Support, AMD GPU Re-Clocking, Intel Kaby Lake (phoronix.com)

Posted by timothy on from the you-had-me-with-better-suspend dept.

The Linux 4.5 merge window has been open for the last two weeks; that means that the 4.5-rc1 kernel is expected to emerge, with the official kernel following in about eight weeks. An anonymous reader writes with this top-level list of changes to look for, from Phoronix: Linux 4.5 is set to bring many new features across the kernel's 20 million line code-base. Among the new/improved features are Raspberry Pi 2 support, open-source Raspberry Pi 3D support, NVIDIA Tegra X1 / Jetson TX1 support, an open-source Vivante graphics driver, AMDGPU PowerPlay/re-clocking support, Intel Kaby Lake enablement, a Logitech racing wheel driver, improvements for handling suspended USB devices, new F2FS file-system features, and better Xbox One controller handling.

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  1. They've moved to that distro: it's called FreeBSD. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    The solution is for all the systemd haters to band together into one distro and move on.

    This has already happened. The most talented and experienced Linux users have already moved to FreeBSD. Maybe you don't realize it, but this is the worst thing that could have happened to Linux. Now Linux and its community will no longer benefit from the decades of experience these users each tend to have. They're the unsung heroes who kept the Linux community going. Now their contributions benefit the FreeBSD community instead.

    The exact same thing is happening to Linux that has happened to the Firefox web browser. In the case of Firefox, it was the awful and unwanted UI changes (especially Australis) which drove away Firefox's most important users. Without their support, Firefox's overall share of the market has dropped to only around 7% today. Systemd is the equivalent when it comes to Linux. It's an unwanted and awful change for many users, and it has forced them to abandon Linux completely.

    Systemd has harmed Linux and its community way more than Microsoft, SCO, Apple, or any other company could have. Linux's collapse has come from within. It has come from people like you, who tell the best Linux users to basically "fuck off and die". Well, those users have listened, and now they're happy, productive, proud and helpful FreeBSD users, and they make absolutely no contributions to the Linux community any longer.

  2. Re:RPi2 support? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    It wasn't using an upstream kernel in Raspbian and others but an older kernel plus extra patches. Now all of the support is mainlined.

  3. Re: RPi2 support? by omkhar · · Score: 3, Informative

    It adds additional support for the graphics portion which weren't previously included in the main line kernel.