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Linux 5.6 Is The Most Exciting Kernel In Years With So Many New Features

posted by Fnord666 on Monday February 10 2020, @07:18PM   Printer-friendly
from the lots-of-new-and-shiny dept.

spiraldancing writes:

www.phoronix.com

This kernel is simply huge: there is so many new and improved features with this particular release that it's mind-boggling. I'm having difficulty remembering such a time a kernel release was so large.

The quick summary of Linux 5.6 changes include: WireGuard, USB4, open-source NVIDIA RTX 2000 series support, AMD Pollock enablement, lots of new hardware support, a lot of file-system / storage work, multi-path TCP bits are finally going mainline, Year 2038 work beginning to wrap-up for 32-bit systems, the new AMD TEE driver for tapping the Secure Processor, the first signs of AMD Zen 3, better AMD Zen/Zen2 thermal and power reporting under Linux, at long last having an in-kernel SATA drive temperature for HWMON, and a lot of other kernel infrastructure improvements.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 12 2020, @03:13AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 12 2020, @03:13AM (#957072)

    Probably passing "quiet" as a kernel parameter or turned down the configured log level, you selected the wrong CPU architecture, you mismatched the microcode, you didn't generate the ramdisk properly by configuring mkinitrd and running it, or a mismatch in compression algorithms for the initrd. In my experience, those are the five most common reasons that pops up. Well, other than not having enough memory/disk space, which seems unlikely here.