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Do as Greg says [1]: > All users of the 4.9 kernel series must upgrade. Changes for Linux 4.9.2 [2][3]: > The Linux kernel is seeing a lot of improvements lately, yes again, and > the newest stable Linux 4.9 series has already received its second point > release, two days after Greg Kroah-Hartman's announcement for Linux > kernel 4.9.1. > > With the availability of Linux kernel 4.9.1, users are now finally able > to migrate from other kernel series to Linux 4.9, which is the most > advanced version available on the market. But do not bother to attempt a > compilation of Linux kernel 4.9.1 because Linux kernel 4.9.2 is already > here, bringing lots of improvements. > > From the appended shortlog, we can't help but notice that there's now > better support for AMD Radeon HD 8000 series of graphics cards, and it > just happens that we have a laptop with hybrid AMD/Intel GPUs running an > AMD Radeon HD 8750 discrete card. So, like many of you out there, this > comes as good news to us. > > There are a total of 141 files changed in the Linux 4.9.2 kernel, with > 1031 insertions and 438 deletions, so you can imagine that there are > quite a few improvements, in particular to the AMDGPU, Nouveau, Intel > i915, InfiniBand, DVB, MMC, wireless (many Atheros and Realtek fixes), > SCSI (s390 too), thermal, staging, and TTY drivers. > > "I'm announcing the release of the 4.9.2 kernel. All users of the 4.9 > kernel series must upgrade. The updated 4.9.y git tree can be found at: > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git > linux-4.9.y and can be browsed at the normal kernel.org git web browser: > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git;a=summary," > said Greg Kroah-Hartman. > > ### It's already in Arch Linux Testing, and it's coming soon to other rolling distros ### > > Some ACPI improvements are there as well in Linux kernel 4.9.2, bringing > better support for the Dell XPS 17 L702X and HP Pavilion dv6 notebooks, > and there's also improved support for the NFS file system, and the ARC, > ARM64/AArch64, PowerPC (PPC), s390, and x86 hardware architectures. > > Other than that, it looks like the networking stack was updated with > small mac80211, Ceph, SunRPC, vmw_vsock, and wireless enhancements. > Linux kernel 4.9.2 is available for download right now, either via our > web portal or directly from kernel.org, if you fancy compiling your own > kernel from sources. > > If not, it should soon be available in the stable repositories of > various rolling distributions, including Arch Linux (now in testing) and > Solus (also in testing). And considering the fact that the Linux 4.8 > series reached end of life, we recommend switching to Linux 4.9 as soon > as possible. [1] https://lwn.net/Articles/711063/ [2] http://news.softpedia.com/news/linux-kernel-4-9-2-improves-support-for-amd-radeon-hd-8000-series-dell-xps-17-511715.shtml [3] https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.9.2
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