Linux Kernel 4.0 Features

Install Kernel Updates Without Rebooting

If you’ve ever been put out by the need to reboot your Linux box to finish installing a kernel update you won’t be alone. It’s a minor inconvenience on the desktop, and a major one for servers.
Although it is considered a small release the latest Linux kernel manages to squeeze in a welcome set of hardware improvements, new drivers and performance tweaks. These include:

• 1) Improvements to Intel ‘Skylake’ platform

• 2) Intel Quark SoC support

• 3) Various patches to improve Linux running on a Playstation 3

• 4) TOpen-source AMD Radeon driver supports DisplayPort Audio

• 5) Various misc HID driver tweaks, including Lenovo compact keyboards, Wacom Cintiq 27QHD

• 6) Toshiba power settings driver adds USB sleep/charge functionality, rapid charge, sleep w/ music, etc

• 7) File System tweaks, including F2FS, BtrfFS, etc