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Linux 4.5 Adds Raspberry Pi 2 Support, AMD GPU Re-Clocking, Intel Kaby Lake (phoronix.com)
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.
The solution is for all the systemd haters to band together into one distro and move on. I'm not a particular fan of the idea of systemd either but it's time to get over it.. To continue to fight something with that kind of momentum is ridiculous. It's as bad as expecting microsoft to go away and die.
So happy to see the Raspberry Pi 3D support. Thanks for the goodies!
Because the round trip between kernel and user space is slow. And when you drive with the Logitech brand Racing Wheel, you want to go FAST!
Say your turn stars a microsecond too late. Well bam, you didn't make that sweet corner, you just drifted into two orphans and a nun. And since your brake kicked in late, you didn't just hit them, you broadsided them right into the facade of a 19th century faux gothic whiskey still, and but for want of a mason jar you could have made orphan preserves from the remains.
All because you put your slow ass driver in userspace, with a fast ass driver in the seat. Think of the children, you monster!
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.
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.
It adds additional support for the graphics portion which weren't previously included in the main line kernel.