Linux Kernel 4.4.5 LTS Released with ARM64, Btrfs, JFFS2, and AMDGPU Updates | Linux Today

Linux Kernel 4.4.5 LTS Released with ARM64, Btrfs, JFFS2, and AMDGPU Updates

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Marius Nestor
Mar 10, 2016

Among the changes implemented by the kernel developers in the fifth update of the long-term supported Linux 4.4 kernel series, we can mention various fixes to the ARM64 (AArch64), ARM, MIPS, PA-RISC, and x86 hardware architectures, updates to the ATA, GPU (mostly AMDGPU, Radeon, and Intel i915), I2C, IOMMU, MTD, PCI, thermal, USB, and VFIO, as well as a few core kernel improvements.

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Marius Nestor

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