Linux Kernel 5.5 has been released some time ago, Linus Torvalds wrote in lkml.org:
. "Even though we had a late update the network, which contains some (mainly iwl wireless) network drivers and fixes netfilter module is loaded, but David saw no need to use -rc addition, really, really very quiet - there Panfrost driver updates, but the final version will again postponed another week does not seem to make any sense. ...... "
Linux Kernel 5.5 Release Notes version:
- Support Broadcom BCM2711 SoC (Raspberry Pi 4).
- G15 and G510 apply to the new Logitech keyboard driver.
- KVM support for IBM POWER secure client / VM's.
- Initial support for Intel Jasper Lake.
- Enable Intel 5 paging support by default
- Suitable for Navi GPU of AMD OverDrive overclocking.
- There are many more changes.
Mainline kernel does not include any drivers or patches Ubuntu provides. It does not support them, not suitable for production use
Can be downloaded for mainline Linux 5.5 kernel package from the following link:
Depending on your operating system type, in order to download and install packages:
- linux-headers-5.5.0-xxxxxx_all.deb
- linux-headers-5.5.0-xxx-generic(/lowlatency)_xxx_amd64.deb
- linux-modules-5.5.0-xxx-generic(/lowlatency)_xxx_amd64.deb
- linux-image-xxx-5.5.0-xxx-generic(/lowlatency)_xxx_amd64.deb
Generic choice for general system for low-latency system to select low latency (e.g. for recording audio), for 64-bit systems to select AMD64, other types of operating systems to select armhf, arm64 like.
Command can also be downloaded by a terminal installed kernel binary (Ctrl + Alt + T by opening a terminal):
对于64位的操作系统:
cd /tmp/
wget -c https://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v5.5/linux-headers-5.5.0-050500_5.5.0-050500.202001262030_all.deb
wget -c https://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v5.5/linux-headers-5.5.0-050500-generic_5.5.0-050500.202001262030_amd64.deb
wget -c https://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v5.5/linux-image-unsigned-5.5.0-050500-generic_5.5.0-050500.202001262030_amd64.deb
wget -c https://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v5.5/linux-modules-5.5.0-050500-lowlatency_5.5.0-050500.202001262030_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i *.deb
请注意，没有用于32位系统的Kernel 5.5软件包。
安装完成后，重新启动计算机即可使用！
卸载Linux Kernel 5.5：
重新启动计算机，然后在引导菜单“ Grub2-> Ubuntu的高级选项”中选择使用先前内核的引导。 然后运行命令删除Linux Kernel 5.5：
sudo dpkg --purge linux-image-unsigned-5.5.0-050500-generic