Initiator and Lead Developer Linus Torvalds has officially released the final version of the latest free Linux 6.0 kernel system for everyone. Notably, numerous optimizations and driver packs for AMD GPUs are also included in the new operating system kernel.
Linux 6.0 supports new hardware
As usual, the new Linux 6.0 kernel is also compatible with the latest hardware. At the request of the community, the editors have compiled a summary of the most important innovations in this area.
- Initial support for AMD Raphael
- Initial support for Intel Raptor Lake
- Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen3 Compatibility
- Extended support for Intel DG2 (“Alchemist”)
- Enhanced NUMA balance for AMD Zen
- New extensions for RISC-V CPUs
- PCI support for OpenRISC CPUs
Additionally, manufacturers and developers have begun work on support for Intel Meteor Lake and Ponte Vecchio, as well as the RDNA 3 architecture of the Radeon RX 7000 series. However, support for NEC VR4100 MIPS processors has been removed.
As Linus Torvalds has now officially announced, the final version of Linux 6.0 has the following key data:
- 800+ merge commits
- 15,000+ changed files
- 1,280,000+ inserts
- 341,000+ eliminations
In total, more than 1,700 developers participated in the improvements that have been incorporated into Linux 6.0, as Torvalds explains.
And again, this is one of those releases where you shouldn’t look at the diffstat too closely, because more than half of it is another AMD GPU log dump. And the people at Habanalabs Gaudi2 also want to play in that space, but they don’t achieve the same high results that the people at AMD GPU have become so famous for. I’m sure it’s just a matter of time.
Linus Torvalds
About 60 percent of the changes are new and updated drivers for better hardware support, but there are also improvements to the file system architecture and various tools, as well as minor optimizations intended to provide a performance boost. Some Chinese developers, on the other hand, call the Linux kernel 5.20, which is not the official name.
As is hopefully clear to all, the main version number change is more about me running out of fingers and toes than it is about big fundamental changes.
But of course there are a lot of changes in 6.0 – we have over 15,000 unmerged commits in total, after all, and as such 6.0 is one of the biggest releases, at least in number of commits, in a long time.
Linus Torvalds
AMD P-state drivers not working on Linux 6.0
Although AMD released its revised P-State driver, the so-called “AMD P-State CPU Frequency Scaling Linux Driver” in mid-August, the driver ultimately did not make it to Linux 6.0.
The driver is said to offer better power efficiency than the generic ACPI CPUFreq driver and is designed for Zen 2, Zen 3, Zen 3+ and Zen 4. Among other things, Precision Boost and low performance are said to have been improved. low loads.
Patched P-state drivers are expected to be included in Linux 6.1. Provide more information the official announcement of Linus Torvalds.
Update 03/10/2022 13:20
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