Linux 5.10 - news brought by the new Linux kernel

The new Linux 5.10 will soon be able to hibernate and restart much faster. It will also come with some notable improvements. Here are some of them:

- Initially support UEFI booting on RISC-V hardware thanks to Western Digital engineers.

- a new driver for Intel MAX10 BMC (data collection from voltage, current, thermal and power monitoring sensors).

- allows the grouping of hibernation / I / O resume requests in order to accelerate both the hibernation and resume processes.

- The EXT4 file system has an optimization that offers benefits for file overwriting in certain circumstances (check if the blocks are already allocated).

- Intel e1000e Linux driver (Gigabit Ethernet driver) is extended to support Meteor Lake client platform

- The MSM DRM driver now has support for DisplayPort output for Adreno hardware with DP outputs.

- support for monitoring the temperature of the AMD Zen 3 processor

- a new HID driver to support some of the differences with "Vivaldi" (Chromebook keyboard firmware).

- Synaptics contributed RMI4 F3A support to improve support for newer laptop touchpads (Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Extreme Gen1 and P1 Gen2).

- RAID10 DISCARD upgrade - from 259 seconds to less than 1 second

- AMDGPU Driver Code Remedies (AMDKFD / Radeon) - Fixed issues with AMDKFD boot initialization errors, backlight issues, eDP issues, Navi 1x memory clock management fixes, SR-IOV fixes, fixes power supply for Raven and Renoir APRs, etc.

- Mediatek MT76 WiFi driver improvements

- Intel DG1 sound support

- Support consistent AMD SME Hardware-Enforced caches

- Broadcom network card driver brings updates, FEC (Forward Error Correction) support and 200G Ethernet connection support