{"id":242479,"date":"2026-05-05T10:42:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T14:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/05\/linux-7-1-features-new-ntfs-driver-new-intel-amd-hardware-performance-optimizations-modernization\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T14:25:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T18:25:20","slug":"linux-7-1-features-new-ntfs-driver-new-intel-amd-hardware-performance-optimizations-modernization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/05\/linux-7-1-features-new-ntfs-driver-new-intel-amd-hardware-performance-optimizations-modernization\/","title":{"rendered":"Linux 7.1 Features: New NTFS Driver, New Intel + AMD Hardware, Performance Optimizations & Modernization"},"content":{"rendered":"

Linux 7.1 Features: New NTFS Driver, New Intel + AMD Hardware, Performance Optimizations & Modernization<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/review\/linux-71-features-changes<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-05-05 10:42:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: www.phoronix.com<\/a><\/p>\n

The Linux 7.1 development kernel that amounts to nearly 40 million lines has a lot of new features and changes in tow. While Linux 7.1 stable won’t be out until mid-June, here is a look at the interesting changes coming with this next stable version of the Linux kernel.<\/p>\n

Linux 7.1 adds the Apple SMC power driver for finally reporting battery metrics on Apple Silicon MacBook laptops using the mainline kernel, AMD is preparing new graphics hardware support, Intel has begun enabling Nova Lake P graphics support, and many other hardware support additions. Also very significant for Linux 7.1 is the introduction of a new NTFS driver that aims to provide better performance and features than the existing NTFS file-system options for Linux users.<\/p>\n

Linux 7.1 is also notable for its code removals. Driven by AI-assisted bug reporting, ISDN and other old network driver code was removed to avoid that influx of bug reporting against those very rarely touched or used drivers for obsolete hardware. Bus mouse support was also removed as were some obsolete PCMCIA drivers and retiring of UDP-Lite kernel support. There was also the removal of some old PCI drivers. Most notable on the removal side is beginning to phase out Intel 486 CPU support.<\/p>\n

Linux 7.1 is also showing off some nice incremental performance improvements and performance enhancements like enabling Intel FRED by default that is of immediate benefit to Panther Lake systems. More Linux 7.1 kernel performance benchmarks are forthcoming on different hardware platforms at Phoronix.<\/p>\n

Continue on for the more exhaustive look at interesting changes to find with the forthcoming Linux 7.1 kernel.<\/p>\n

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– Beginning to retire Intel 486 “i486” CPU support from the mainline kernel. The code still remains but the build options are initially dropped for beginning to phase out that old CPU support.<\/p>\n

– Intel FRED is enabled by default for Flexible Return and Event Delivery that is a performance win for Panther Lake systems where it…<\/p>\n

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