Linux 4.17 Kernel Offers Better Intel Power-Savings While Dropping Old CPUs (phoronix.com)

Posted by msmash on Sunday April 15, 2018 @05:09PM from the changelog dept.

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.

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Re:It's still double-digit processor speeds, keep by nctritech · 2018-04-16 00:45 · Score: 3, Interesting

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.