The Best Features Of The Linux 4.8 Kernel

[phoronix]

Phoronix: The Best Features Of The Linux 4.8 Kernel

If all goes according to plan, the Linux 4.8 kernel will be officially released this afternoon by Linus Torvalds...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-4.8-Best-Features

[franglais125]

Thanks for the summary Michael!

Looking forward to 4.9... Does anyone know the status of BFQ? It'd be nice to see it mainlined.

It seems that, since 4.9 was announced as a LTS kernel, a lot of people want to get stuff in it instead of waiting for 4.10 (http://neuling.org/linux-next-size.html).

[Electric-Gecko]

Does this HDMI CEC make it easier (or possible) to do stereoscopic video (as in 3DTV)?

[Spazturtle]

Does this HDMI CEC make it easier (or possible) to do stereoscopic video (as in 3DTV)?

HDMI CEC allows HDMI devices to control each other, a basic example is if you have a HDMI CEC TV and a HDMI CEC Bluray player, you could fully control the BD player with the TV remote as the TV can send commands to the BD Player.

So you can power on/off the screen, change input sources, change speaker volume and anything else without having to touch the screens buttons or remote.

To answer you question it might, it would allow you computer to enable and disable 3D on your TV on command and set the 3D mode, ect.

[Veerappan]

Does this HDMI CEC make it easier (or possible) to do stereoscopic video (as in 3DTV)?

I believe that this is more targetted towards controlling your TV/Receiver from the linux box.

E.g. when you turn on the PC, you can have it send a signal through to the Receiver/TV to switch to the PC's input, power on/off, adjust volume, etc.

One example of a device that uses this is my Chromecast. Whenever someone hits the Cast button on a chrome browser, or via an android device, the TV automatically switches to the Chromecast's HDMI port to start displaying the content.

[mibo]

Is the experimental CI/GCN1.0 support for AMDGPU included in 4.8? I didn't see it mentioned.

Edit: Ok, this sounds as if it goes only into 4.9

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Libdrm-2.4.71-Released

[madbiologist]

Previously reported on Phoronix - "Ovier in ACPI space the Linux 4.8 kernel adds support for ACPI overlays, which allow for ACPI tables to be loaded dynamically from EFI variables or ConfigFS. Also new is support for ACPI Low-Power Idle (LPI). Low-Power Idle was added to ACPI 6.0 and allows for dealing with low-power idle states of the processor to be represented in ACPI tables. There's also now support for ACPI idle states management on ARM64."

Does this fix the issue described at https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pa...e-Concerns-MJG ?