The New Features & Exciting Changes Of The Linux 4.10 Kernel

Laptops / Mobile:

- Support for several new ARM platforms. Notable additions include the Snapdragon 808/810, Huawei Nexus 6P, LG Nexus 6X, Pine64, Droid 4, and more.

- Microsoft Surface 3/4 touch improvements.

- And other Microsoft Surface 3 improvements.

- More x86 laptop quirks.

- The continued flow of power management updates.

Other Hardware:

- The sound code has a new topology ABI, continued work on Intel Skylake audio, and other driver updates. There are new sound drivers for the Cirrus Logic CS42L42, Qualcomm MSM8916-WCD, and Realtek RT5665.

- Improved Raspberry Pi 3 support.

- EFI now exposes its frame-buffer configuration.

- Synaptics input improvements.

- Varied PCI updates.

- HDMI CEC was promoted out of staging for better control of connected HDMI devices.

- VFIO mediated device support as part of Intel's GVT upbringing and NVIDIA's also working on vGPU support for virtualized VMs.

- 1,000+ staging changes.

Did I miss anything of interest for Linux 4.10? Let me know.

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