Kernel: USB4 Support, Ethernet Driver and Linus Torvalds on His Rejection of Ubuntu or Debian

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USB4 Support Coming to Linux 5.6 Kernel
Linux 5.6 will receive support for USB4, Phoronix reported on Sunday. The Linux 5.6 Kernel will likely debut by April.
USB4’s spec published in September and is based on Thunderbolt 3, with which it is backwards compatible. Intel's open-source department added the initial patches for USB4 in October.
The Linux 5.6 kernel will reportedly have both host and device support, as well as source code and a bunch of other features, thanks to leveraging the existing Thunderbolt code. It has also kept the code compact at just 2,000 lines of code.
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Cavium Octeon's Ethernet Driver Being Booted From Linux 5.6
The Ethernet driver for supporting Cavium's Octeon SoCs is slated for removal in the Linux 5.6 cycle.
The Octeon Ethernet networking driver has been part of the mainline kernel for a decade but within the "staging" area of the kernel where immature / WIP kernel code is nursed along. But with this driver being stagnate now for several years without any real effort to get it cleaned up, Linux kernel staging maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman is dropping it from the kernel.
Greg already removed it in staging-next ahead of Linux 5.6. Dropping the driver lightens the kernel by almost five thousand lines of code.
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Why Linus Torvalds Doesn’t Use Ubuntu or Debian?
Linus Torvalds gives a practical reason why he doesn’t use Ubuntu or Debian.
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