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Linux 4.17 Kernel Offers Better Intel Power-Savings While Dropping Old CPUs (phoronix.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Linus Torvalds has released Linux 4.17-rc1. This kernel comes with a significant amount of new capabilities as outlined by the Linux 4.17 feature overview. Among the new features are AMDGPU WattMan support, Intel HDCP support, Vega 12 GPU enablement, NVIDIA Xavier SoC support, removal of obsolete CPU architectures, and even better support for the original Macintosh PowerBook 100 series. Phoronix testing has also revealed measurable power savings improvements and better power efficiency on Intel hardware. The kernel is expected to be stabilized by June.
To much abuse, ridicule and disbelief, I’ve posted here many times about my problems with Linux on the desktop...
This hasn’t been one of them. I have an Acer Cloudbook which gets 12-17h per charge. It can’t hibernate properly, crashes on resume from suspend, bit the fact that it gets such wicked battery life while ON, means I just leave it running in my bag all day.
Although my audio stopped working, no fricking clue why. Who has time to deal with this stuff?
You're right about the stability; that's just the nature of the beast. When they refer to supporting the 68000, they're probably using a NOMMU system which is a quirky thing but within its several limits it DOES work. As you noted, some features of modern CPUs and MMUs such as memory protection are not available. uClinux's kernel work was folded into the Kernel during the 2.5.x series. As of 2016 they were still alive and kicking.