Canonical announced About the beginning of the formation Separate system images Distributions Ubuntu Core 20 and Ubuntu Desktop 20.04 optimized for 11 generation Intel Core processors (Tiger Lake, Rocket Lake), Intel Atom X6000e chips and Series N and J Intel Celeron and Intel Pentium. As a reason for creating individual assemblies, a desire to improve the efficiency of using Ubuntu in Internet systems (IoT) built on Intel chips.
From the features of the proposed assemblies notes :
- Optimization to perform tasks in real time.
- Turning on patches to enhance safety and reliability (new CPU capabilities are involved to enhance the isolation of containers and ensure integrity).
- Transfer from fresh Linux kernel branches related to improving EDAC support, USB and GPIO on systems with CPU Intel Core Elkhart Lake and Tiger Lake-U.
- Added driver to support technology TCC (Time Coordinated Computing), and also integrated support for controllers TSN (Time-sensitive Networking) provided by the CPU Intel Core Elkhart Lake” GRE “and Tiger Lake-U Re and Fe, and allow you to raise the performance of applications sensitive to processing delays and delivery data.
- Supported support for the subsystem Intel Management Engine and MEI interface (Intel Management Engine Interface). The Intel ME environment is performed by a separate microprocessor and is aimed at performing tasks such as the processing of protected content (DRM), implement TPM modules (Trusted Platform Module) and low-level interfaces for monitoring and managing equipment.
- support for AAEON PICO-EHL4 PICO-ITX SBC boards with processors based on the ELKHART LAKE microarchitecture processors.
- ELKHART LAKE chips implemented ISHTP driver (VNIC), added support for the graphics subsystem and QEP driver ( Quadrature Encoder Peripheral ).
In addition, Canonical published Separate builds Ubuntu Server 21.10 for the Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W board and also promised in the near future to form Ubuntu Desktop 20.04 and Ubuntu Core 20.
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