See our Linux 5.8 feature overview for all the exciting changes from an AMD Energy Driver for Zen/Zen2 CPUs to new F2FS compression capabilities, POWER10 CPUs starting to boot with the mainline kernel code, power management improvements, and much more. This is also the first major kernel release featuring the new inclusive terminology guidelines.
You can build it yourself, or just wait until it trickles down into your distribution of choice.
> Support for userspace to send requests directly to the on-chip GZIP accelerator on Power9.
https://github.com/libnxz/power-gzip
Pretty cool stuff, I can’t wait to get 5.8 booting on my Blackbird.
I can’t wait for you to get the 5.8 kernel booting on your Blackbird either.