USB4 Support Being Introduced With Linux 5.6 Kernel

Anyone adopting USB 4.0?

"Linux 5.6 should debut with this USB4 support as stable likely around the end of March or early April, however, it likely will be too late for making it into Ubuntu 20.04 considering it's an LTS release. But at least Linux 5.6 should make it into Fedora 32 and others.

USB4 is rated to provide 40 Gbit/s throughput and we should begin seeing USB4 devices in 2020."

https://www.phoronix.com/forums/for...upport-being-introduced-with-linux-5-6-kernel

Nah I'll wait for USB 4.3x5 type D....

If USB4 is to arrive this year, I hope it comes out without a lot of crappy labeling and is implemented in the upcoming motherboard/chipset revisions (ie to compliment Zen 3 Ryzen 4000 and Threadripper 4000, plus whatever Intel does) fully. I'd prefer that rather than having separate, non-integrated USB4 chips in a handful of top end mobos but almost nowhere else, where it takes another generation before they're natively supported by Intel/AMD chipsets. All the crap with USB3, particularly the naming and whatnot (USB 3.0 and USB 3.1 Gen 1 being essentially the same thing, USB 3.1 Gen 2 being the only "real" version etc.. and to say nothing of the plug compatibility ; hopefully everything USB4 is USB-C style natively with easy conversion to A or whatnot if required). really made it confusing and take longer to be implemented properly.

Yeah, I own like... 2 USB3 devices. Both are NVMe>USB3.1x adapters.

I'll wait half a decade for them to iron the kinks out.

Arcygenical said:

Yeah, I own like... 2 USB3 devices. Both are NVMe>USB3.1x adapters.

I'll wait half a decade for them to iron the kinks out.

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By that time you'll be waiting for the kinks to be ironed out of USB5 (just after USB4.6 became standard, the bastards).

I wonder how many TB3 devices will have the USB4 label retroactively applied.