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All going well, the stable release should appear sometime in August.
Introducing the release candidate, Torvalds said it was "right up there with v4.9, which has long been our biggest release by quite a bit in number of commits." That said, the 4.9 kernel was "artificially big" because of a couple of special factors, whereas 5.8 is a "more comprehensive release."
Torvalds said: "The development is really all over the place: there's tons of fairly fundamental core work and cleanups, but there is also lots of filesystem work and obviously all the usual driver updates too. Plus documentation and architecture work." He added: "We have modified about 20 per cent of all the files in the kernel source repository. That's really a fairly big percentage, and while some of it _is_ scripted, on the whole it's really just the same pattern: 5.8 has simply seen a lot of development."
While the code for the kernel is large, only a small part of it ends up in any individual system, since the kernel source contains code for every chip architecture and hardware it supports. In early 2018, maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman said that "an average laptop uses around 2 million lines of kernel from 5,000 files to function properly." At the time, there were 25 million lines of code in the kernel, whereas now there are over 28 million.
See also: Linux 5.8 Kernel Features Include New Intel/AMD Capabilities, Security Improvements, Optimizations.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 16 2020, @04:28PM (5 children)
Fucking suspend you bastard. SUSPEND. Even Führer Billy Boy could program that shit.
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Tuesday June 16 2020, @04:54PM
My Ubuntu laptop suspends just fine!
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(Score: 5, Insightful) by FatPhil on Tuesday June 16 2020, @05:09PM
However, there's a reason Linux was so far behind Windows for power management support - Microsoft forced lots of power management related interfaces to be under NDA, so that Linux programmers literally had no clue what they needed to do initially. And closed-source BIOS developers mystically failed to follow some of the published standards too (e.g. ASPM) - I wonder what made them do that?
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(Score: 5, Informative) by RamiK on Tuesday June 16 2020, @05:44PM
Gates had Intel design ACPI and write the ODM BIOS design tools in such a way that will leave Microsoft with the ability to implement their ACPI drivers just different enough from the specs that when ODMs write their board's DSDT tables, they won't necessarily work properly for other OSs: https://www.osnews.com/story/17689/bill-gates-on-making-acpi-not-work-with-linux/ [osnews.com]
UEFI continued with the x86-ACPI PC design so the problem only persisted.
On the bright side, Microsoft ended up depending on so much cruft in their hardware support driver layers that Windows became nearly impossible to port to anything non-UEFI leaving them out of the general ARM smartphone and laptop market short of some specific boards they designed and ordered.
compiling...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 16 2020, @06:53PM
many idiots, possibly like you, buy the most closed piece of shit laptop they can find, without even checking compatibility, and then whine and complain to Free Software devs when some feature doesn't work. These idiots should go back to windows/mac. We don;'t need any more.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 17 2020, @02:48PM
I switched from open source driver to manufacturer's proprietary driver (NVidia), and suspend works with no issue.