I would recommend running Fedore Desktop if you are concerned about compatibility as I believe they pretty much put the newer kernel releases into Fedora. -----Original Message----- From: linux-newbie-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <linux-newbie-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of ?????? ???????? Sent: Sunday, August 11, 2019 3:08 AM To: linux-newbie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Questions regarding Whiskey Lake support in Linux LTS kernel 4.19.* 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=v4.1 9.37 [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=v 5.2.8&id=516a49cc19467e298d08a404f73a6e311f4548d1 [4] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/?h=v 5.2.8&id=35bc99aaa1a3af23cf78b6b56f14230b5da3993b [5] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/?h=v 5.2.8&id=c1c8f6fa731bc850d571d9c32016c3bf9ed1332e [6] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/?h=v 5.2.8&id=54f43ea4c28742dd3b44ca5517bdb7e08703398b
