Ubuntu 19.10 Provides Good Out-Of-The-Box Support For The Dell XPS 7390 Icelake Laptop

[tjaalton]

Sounds like you didn't try thunderbolt? Support for it has been backported from 5.4, so unless there are bugs with this setup it should work.

[Venemo]

Can you test how well the Thunderbolt support works on kernel 5.4? I think the devs would appreciate some feedback and if you find issues it's not too late to open a bug report either.

[yurikoles]

Michael
Arch Wiki link is broken, it's missing `)` at the end.

[wizard69]

Looking forward to this series of articles.

[GraceAsylum]

I would like to see how the GPU compares to a Iris plus 655. Most of the comparisons from Intel are from weaker GPUs.

[Michael]

Michael

Please run benchmarks which take at least five minutes to complete, e.g. video (re)encoding or heavy 3d scenes rendering. And if you have any Whiskey Lake/Ryzen mobile parts around, it would be nice to see them compared as well. While running these tests it would be great if you monitored/logged CPU temperatures/frequencies and power consumption, e.g. using turbostat.

I'm asking all of this because there are a lot of questions about Intel's 10nm node and how it really fares against their tried and tested 14nm node.

Yep will ultimately have lots of thermal and power data.

[Michael]

Details on the performance?

That's all coming in future articles, still running tons of tests, only had it for a few days but basically an article saying the laptop is working well basically on Ubuntu 19.10.

[birdie]

Michael

Please run benchmarks which take at least five minutes to complete, e.g. video (re)encoding or heavy 3d scenes rendering. And if you have any Whiskey Lake/Ryzen mobile parts around, it would be nice to see them compared as well. While running these tests it would be great if you monitored/logged CPU temperatures/frequencies and power consumption, e.g. using turbostat.

I'm asking all of this because there are a lot of questions about Intel's 10nm node and how it really fares against their tried and tested 14nm node.

[tajjada]

YESSS!! Just as I was considering buying this exact laptop, this article comes out! This is awesome! Looking forward to all your reportings about it!

[darinmiller]

So does installing the linux 5.4 kernel from the Ubuntu repo's (https://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-pp...line/v5.4-rc2/) fix the thunderbolt issue?