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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. Re:Has the systemd problem been addressed? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Interesting

    This. I had a CentOS 7 box start failing to boot giving a udev failure message. This is with a KDE desktop install with no extra packages installed.

    I ran hardware diags on the machine and when they all passed, I installed OpenBSD on it.

    You systemd folks can keep singing kumbaya until you're all using Lennux distros built on systemd/kerneld where literally everything can crash the system without any rhyme of reason.

  2. Re: Has the systemd problem been addressed? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Interesting

    Because it turns out replacing sysvinit was necessary and is something that the GNU/Linux community has gained from doing.

    Nobody objects to sysvinit being replaced.

    They're objecting to it being replaced with something that's far more broken and architecturally-flawed (systemd).