NUC image - 10th generation hardware support

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Hi,

In our devices we are using Intel NUC image, which seems to work fine with Intel x86 CPU boards, not only the NUC device. We are currently trying to update our hardware but noticed that the Intel NUC image does not work with 10th generation hardware, including motherboard, network adapters, etc… We found that if the kernel version is updated (from 5.2 currently I believe) to the latest the interaction with the hardware is better. So I have a few questions…

  1. Is it possible to update the kernel in the OS image?
  2. Is there a timeline for updates like this?
  3. Is there a workaround for stuff like this?

And a bit unrelated, but we need to install Nvidia drivers as well, because we need GPU interaction, and this is regularly installed at the OS level, have you ever tried install drivers from a container?

Thanks in advance!