Add Linux 4.8.7 #192
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Do as Greg says [1]: > All users of the 4.8 kernel series must upgrade. Changes [2][3]: > ### Key highlights of Linux kernel 4.8.7 ### > > Looking at the appended shortlog and the diff from the previous point > release, it looks like Linux kernel 4.8.7 is quite a big update that > changes a total of 122 files, with 1096 insertions and 541 deletions. > Most of the patch includes updated drivers for Intel i915 and Radeon > GPUs, but also for wireless (Atheros ath10k and ath9k, as well as > Realtek rtl8xxxu), PWM, I2C, MD, SCSI, SPI, virtio, USB, DAX, FireWire, > TTY, and Android. > > Other than that, there are a few improvements to the Btrfs, NFS, > OverlayFS, UBIFS, and XFS filesystems, a couple of networking stack > changes to the mac80211 wireless framework and Netfilter framework for > networking-related operations, and updates to the support for ARM, ARM64 > (AArch64), h8300, MIPS, PA-RISC, PowerPC (PPC), s390, and x86 hardware > architectures. Users are urged to update at their earliest convenience, > and OS vendors to download Linux kernel 4.8.7 from kernel.org. [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/11/10/430 [2] http://news.softpedia.com/news/linux-kernel-4-8-7-updates-intel-and-radeon-drivers-improves-wireless-support-510122.shtml [3] https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.8.7
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Tested on sigcont.