The New Features Of The Linux 5.7 Kernel: Tiger Lake Graphics Stable, New exFAT, Zstd F2FS, Performance
Networking:
- Support for a remote swap file via SMB3/CIFS.
- Qualcomm MHI bus support for improving the Qualcomm wireless support on the mainline Linux kernel along with Qualcomm IPA support.
- Support for the yet to be released Intel E823 Ethernet adapters.
- Intel Tiger Lake support within the E1000e driver.
Other Hardware:
- Apple USB Fast Charge support for iOS devices via a new driver.
- Older Intel tablets seeing better touchscreen support.
- PCI Error Disconnect Recover capabilities.
- The (not so) Glorious mouse driver.
- New sound hardware support from the Realtek RT5682 to Amlogic GX to Realtek RL6231 to a lot of Sound Open Firmware work.
Infrastructure:
- EFI boot handling improvements.
- Performance improvements for /dev/random.
- SELinux performance optimizations.
- Work towards making exec() less deadlock prone.
- The ability to spawn a process in a different cgroup from its parent.
- Perf subsystem additions for AMD Zen 3 and Intel Tiger Lake.
- Kbuild improvements making it easier to build the kernel with an LLVM toolchain.
- The new FSINFO system call is quite fascinating.
- Split lock detection for helping to note (or kill) that huge performance hit.
- Many scheduler updates from NUMA improvements to other features.
- Support for a unified user-space-access-intended accelerator framework.
- Spring cleaning for staging.
Linux 5.7 kernel benchmarks coming up soon on Phoronix.
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