Questions regarding Whiskey Lake support in Linux LTS kernel 4.19.*

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Dear Linux community!

I am currently considering buying a new laptop with an Intel processor, and I am concerned with Linux compatibility. My distribution of choice is Debian Stable, which currently has kernel 4.19.37, so I will most probably run kernels 4.19.* for next three years.

I am currently facing a choice between Intel Core i5 8250u (Kaby Lake R) and 8265u (Whiskey Lake). I would prefer the latter if I was sure it will run fine with 4.19. As an attempt to determine if support for Whiskey Lake in 4.19 is ok, I tried opening [1], [2], searching for "whl" and "whiskey" and inspecting all the commits which are in 5.2.8 but not in 4.19.37. My expertise level is "an advanced user but not a developer", and it seems to me, that [3] and [4] are not of crucial importance for Whiskey Lake support, but I am unable to evaluate the importance of [5] and [6] on my own due to lack of expertise. Apart from those 4 commits mentioned above, there were many commits related to "Whiskey Cove PMIC", and I couldn't find any information on whether it is related to Whiskey Lake CPUs or not. In addition, I may have skipped something because my method (browsing search results in git web-interface) may be suboptimal.

Could you please tell me if Whiskey Lake CPUs (precisely: Intel Core i5 8265u) should run nicely with Linux kernel 4.19 (precisely: 4.19.37)?

Thanks in advance!

Yours, Sergey Protserov.

[1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/log/?h=v4.19.37
[2] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/log/?h=v5.2.8
[3] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/?h=v5.2.8&id=516a49cc19467e298d08a404f73a6e311f4548d1
[4] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/?h=v5.2.8&id=35bc99aaa1a3af23cf78b6b56f14230b5da3993b
[5] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/?h=v5.2.8&id=c1c8f6fa731bc850d571d9c32016c3bf9ed1332e
[6] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/?h=v5.2.8&id=54f43ea4c28742dd3b44ca5517bdb7e08703398b





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