Kernel Watch
Jon Masters summarises the latest happenings in the Linux kernel, so you don’t have to.
Jon Masters
Linus Torvalds announced Linux 5.9-rc3 L (release candidate 3), which he has described as being a fairly calm release cycle overall. Among the many new features and drivers for hardware merged this time around are security and scheduler fixes. Intel platforms have gained support for FSGSBASE while Arm platforms now use the newer ‘schedutil’ CPU frequency governor.