Next kernel to be version 4.0

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I could not find another post on this on our forum, albeit I concede I may have missed such.

I note phoronix has an article that the next GNU/Linux kernel is to be Linux-4.0 :

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-4.0-rc1-Kernel-Released

and Phoronix list some of the new planned features:

[INDENT=2]DRM / Graphics Drivers:

• The AMD Radeon driver finally has DisplayPort audio support.

• The Radeon driver also has better fan control support and other improvements.

• The AMDKFD HSA kernel driver has basic work towards Carrizo/VI APU support.

• The Intel DRM driver has many improvements throughout and basic Intel Skylake support should now be working.

• The Nouveau DRM driver has GK20A re-clocking support and other improvements.

• Freedreno’s MSM driver has Embedded DisplayPort support, YUV support for newer hardware, and various other changes.

• New DRM drivers and other improvements.

File-Systems / Disk Drives:

• pNFS block server support and it’s currently supported by the XFS file-system. This feature has been a long-time coming for mainline.

• RAID 5/6 improvements for Btrfs.

• VirtIO 1.0.

• Fixes to the F2FS file-system.

• Handling of multiple read-only layers for the OverlayFS.

Processors:

• Intel Quark SoC x86 platform support.

• Numerous new ARM platforms are now enabled for this next Linux kernel release.

• Various x86 KVM optimizations.

• A new AMD ACPI driver and Skylake P-State support, among other power management and ACPI improvements.

• Full IBM z13 support.

Other Hardware:

• Improved Toshiba laptop support.

• Bootloader improvements for the Sony PlayStation 3 with Linux.

• TPM 2.0 support for Trusted Computing.

• Various sound updates.

• New input drivers.

• New and improved media drivers.

• Better Logitech HID++ support.
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and of course, there is more than just the above.