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Linux Kernel 4.6.5 Has Numerous Nouveau Improvements, ARM and ARM64 Fixes

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Marius Nestor
Jul 27, 2016

Linux 4.6.5 appears to be the latest stable kernel version available right now for GNU/Linux operating systems, bringing changes for a total of 220 files, with 1754 insertions and 998 deletions. Among the improvements, we can notice lots of updated drivers, in particular for things like ATA, crypto, EDAC, External Connector Class (extcon), general-purpose input/output (GPIO), GPU (mostly Nouveau, but also AMDGPU, AMDKFD, Powerplay, Atmel HLCDC, Intel i915, mgag200, and vmwgfx), HID, iiO, hwmon, InfiniBand, IOMMU, MTD, PCI, SCSI, TTY, USB, and Xen.
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