Lots of love for AMD and POWER 10 and a hint of some Google’s operational code making it into future releases
Linus Torvalds has released a new version of the Linux kernel. The meta-maintainer last week pondered an eighth release candidate for Linux 5.8, but on Sunday decided “decided it’s not just worth waiting another week when there aren’t any big looming worries around.” Torvalds did encounter “annoying noise with header file dependencies this week” and thought out loud about whether it might be time to sort that out, as follows: Given that Torvalds created Git and the Subsurface dive-logging application to solve problems that irked him.
