The 5.9 kernel has been released

[Posted October 11, 2020 by corbet]

Linus has released the 5.9 kernel. "Ok, so I'll be honest - I had hoped for quite a bit fewer changes this last week, but at the same time there doesn't really seem to be anything particularly scary in here. It's just more commits and more lines changed than I would have wished for." Some of the significant features in this release are: x86 FSGSBASE support, capacity awareness in the deadline scheduler, the close_range() system call, proactive compaction in the memory-management subsystem, the rationalization of kernel-thread priorities, and more. See the KernelNewbies 5.9 page for more details.

speakup out of staging

Posted Oct 12, 2020 0:22 UTC (Mon) by alex19EP (subscriber, #124765) [Link] (3 responses)

the best and most welcome change. perhaps now Fedora will build kernels with accessibility support. at least I hope so.

speakup out of staging

Posted Oct 12, 2020 6:26 UTC (Mon) by alexarnaud (guest, #139344) [Link]

Thanks for pointing it, this is a very good news!

speakup out of staging

Posted Oct 12, 2020 13:12 UTC (Mon) by MKesper (subscriber, #38539) [Link] (1 responses)

Do you have any link to that?

speakup out of staging

Posted Oct 12, 2020 14:13 UTC (Mon) by bangert (subscriber, #28342) [Link]

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/...

from the kernel newbies page.

The 5.9 kernel has been released

Posted Oct 12, 2020 10:43 UTC (Mon) by hrw (subscriber, #44826) [Link]

Updated my system calls table (no changes since previous run other than kernel version):

https://fedora.juszkiewicz.com.pl/syscalls.html

The 5.9 kernel has been released

Posted Oct 12, 2020 17:59 UTC (Mon) by james (subscriber, #1325) [Link] (2 responses)

Good news: it has initial support for the Realtek 8821CE chip, which seems to be widely used in low to mid-range laptops.

Bad news:

rfe 2 isn't supported
failed to setup chip efuse info
failed to setup chip information

and it still doesn't work.

Good news: there's supposed to be a simple fix.

Bad news: Realtek have NAKed it in favour of The RFE type 2 should be working with some additional fixes....I will ask someone else to fix them.

Meanwhile, this laptop is over a year old.

Good news: USB Wifi dongles exist.

The 5.9 kernel has been released

Posted Oct 13, 2020 7:31 UTC (Tue) by flussence (guest, #85566) [Link]

Does anyone know what went wrong with Realtek, in general? They seem to have passed even the infamous Broadcom in number of driver complaints online as of late.

The 5.9 kernel has been released

Posted Apr 27, 2021 19:00 UTC (Tue) by james (subscriber, #1325) [Link]

Good news: the 5.12 kernel finally supports Realtek 8821CE wi-fi adapters wired in rfe 2 mode. So far, it seems to be working properly.

The 5.9 kernel has been released

Posted Oct 13, 2020 3:58 UTC (Tue) by pbanana (guest, #142487) [Link]

Looking forward to this hitting Tumbleweed.