News: 0000831364

  ARM Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life (Terry Pratchett, Jingo)

Lots of stable kernel updates

([Kernel] Sep 12, 2020 20:50 UTC (Sat) (corbet))


Today's crop of stable kernel updates includes [1]5.8.9 , [2]5.4.65 , [3]4.19.145 , [4]4.14.198 , [5]4.9.236 , and [6]4.4.236 . Each contains another set of important fixes.



[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/831365/

[2] https://lwn.net/Articles/831366/

[3] https://lwn.net/Articles/831367/

[4] https://lwn.net/Articles/831368/

[5] https://lwn.net/Articles/831369/

[6] https://lwn.net/Articles/831370/

... faster BogoMIPS calculations (yes, it now boots 2 seconds faster than
it used to: we're considering changing the name from "Linux" to "InstaBOOT"
-- Linus, in the announcement for 1.3.26