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Comprehensible changelog of the linux kernel, inspired by [http://wiki.dragonflybsd.org/index.php/DragonFly_Status Dragonfly's status]. A interesting place to get good information about linux is LWN and their [http://lwn.net/Kernel/ "kernel status" articles], [http://lwn.net/Articles/driver-porting/ driver porting guide] and lots of nice stuff - many of the links here are linking to LWN articles and we wouldn't have been able to restore the 2.5.x-2.6.x changelog without them (you may be insterested in subscribing so Jonathan can keep up the good work ;) Before adding things here look at the RULES section at the end of the page. | #pragma keywords Linux, Kernel, Operating System, Linus Torvalds, Open Source, drivers, filesystems, network, memory management, scheduler, preemption, locking #pragma description Summary of the changes and new features merged in the Linux Kernel during the 2.6.x and 3.x development Changes done in each Linux kernel release. Other places to get news about the Linux kernel are [[http://lwn.net/Kernel/|LWN kernel status]] or the Linux Kernel mailing list (there is a web interface in [[http://www.lkml.org|www.lkml.org]] or [[https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/|lore.kernel.org/lkml]]). The lore.kernel.org/lkml/ archive is also available via NTTP if you prefer to use a newsreader: use `nntp://nntp.lore.kernel.org/org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel` for that. List of changes of older releases can be found at LinuxVersions. If you're going to add something here look first at LinuxChangesRules! |
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2.6.14 '''STILL NOT RELEASED!!''': * Add /proc/<pid>/smaps: how much memory is resident in each mapping [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=e070ad49f31155d872d8e96cab2142840993e3c0 (commit)] * Numa-aware slab allocator V5 [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=e498be7dafd72fd68848c1eef1575aa7c5d658df (commit - benchmarks)] * Lazy page table copies in fork(): Defer copying of ptes until fault time when it is possible to reconstruct the pte from backing store, speeding up fork() greatly specially for processes using lots of shared memory [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=d992895ba2b27cf5adf1ba0ad6d27662adc54c5e (commit)] * SAS transport class [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=c7ebbbce366c02e5657ac6b6059933fe0353b175 (commit)] * Remove ACPI S4 BIOS support (useless) [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=b01d8684e9e5b04270970c97df856d47668267e3 (commit)] * Add netlink connector: userspace <-> kernel space easy to use communication module which implements easy to use bidirectional message bus using netlink as it's backend [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=7672d0b54411371e0b6a831c1cb2f0ce615de6dc (commit)] * Suspend support for CIFS filesystem [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=ede1327ea4ca8019ec6df24b3e837def091c26b8 (commit)] * PPTP protocol support [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=926b50f92a30090da2c1a8675de954c2d9b09732 (commit)] * [http://fuse.sourceforge.net/ FUSE]: FUSE allows to implement a fully functional filesystem in a userspace program * [http://v9fs.sourceforge.net/ 9P support]: Linux port of the famous [http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/9.html Plan9]'s [http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sys/man/5/INDEX.html 9P protocol] [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=93fa58cb831337fdf5d36b3b913441100a484dae (commit)] * ipw2100 and ipw2200 wireless drivers (intel centrino) [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=2c86c275015c880e810830304a3a4ab94803b38b (commit)] - [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=43f66a6ce8da299344cf1bc2ac2311889cc88555 (commit)] * [http://hostap.epitest.fi/ HostAP]: Adds support to work as "Wireless Access Point" [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=ff1d2767d5a43c85f944e86a45284b721f66196c (commit)] * [http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Linux.Wireless.Extensions.html Wireless extensions] API update to version 19 [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=6582c164f2b3b6e58d1f13c1c031b19ee691eb14 (commit)] * Four-level page table support for the ppc64 architecture: extends the usable user address range to 44 bits (16T). [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=e28f7faf05159f1cfd564596f5e6178edba6bd49 (commit)] * [http://lwn.net/Articles/149756/ DCCP]: "Datagram Congestion Control Protocol". Datagram protocol (like UDP), but with a congestion control mechanism. Currently a [http://www.icir.org/kohler/dcp/draft-ietf-dccp-spec-11.txt RFC draft] [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=7c657876b63cb1d8a2ec06f8fc6c37bb8412e66c (commit)] * [http://relayfs.sourceforge.net/ RelayFS]: "Basically relayfs is just a bunch of per-cpu kernel buffers that can be efficiently written into from kernel code. These buffers are represented as files which can be mmap'ed and directly read from in user space. The purpose of this setup is to provide the simplest possible mechanism allowing potentially large amounts of data to be logged in the kernel and 'relayed' to user space." [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=e82894f84dbba130ab46c97748c03647f8204f92 (commit)] * ISA DMA suspend for x86/x86-64 [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=795312e763569ce4df67e7a0ca726a9901358fa2 (commit)] - [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=7dc24db1757f950f8bd21b7191106d4bf5134be7 (commit)] 2.6.13 released August 29, 2005 [http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.13 changelog]: * x86 now uses the generic PCI bus setup code for assigning unassigned resources * [http://lwn.net/Articles/104343/ inotify] * Support for the Xtensa architecture: [http://www.tensilica.com/products/xtensa_architecture.htm 32-bit architecture] used in embedded devices * [http://lwn.net/Articles/108595/ kexec and kdump]: Kexec allows users to load a new kernel from another running kernel. By preserving the memory contents in a crash scenario, kexec allows to implement kdump. Kdump is able to get a memory dump of the previous kernel, and be used as a debugging tool. * [http://lwn.net/Articles/135472/ Execute-in-place support]: Traditionally, programs are loaded from disk to memory to be executed. However, the current wave of embedded devices store programs in a ROM/flash chip. XIP allows the kernel executing programs directly from that ROM, without being copied to RAM (saving RAM space), and bypassing the page cache/io scheduler layers (since they're not needed). * [http://lwn.net/Articles/145973/ build-time configurable clock interrupt frequency]: * [http://lwn.net/Articles/143474/ Improved CFQ IO scheduler]: With support for I/O priorities * Voluntary preemption patches * Removal of the devfs configuration option 2.6.12 released June 17, 2005 [http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.12 changelog]: * [http://lwn.net/Articles/140164/ API changes] * New driver for the "trusted computing" (TPM) crap^Wchip * [http://www.superh.com/products/shyway.htm SuperHyway bus support] * Multilevel security implementation for SELinux * [http://lwn.net/Articles/124703/ device mapper multipath support] * [http://lwn.net/Articles/121845/ Address space randomization] * Restore the Philips webcam driver * I/O barrier support for serial ATA drives * [http://lwn.net/Articles/134460/ "resource limits"] * [http://lwn.net/Articles/127936/ cpusets] * Remove IPV6 "experimental" status * Hot-pluggable parallel ports * Block I/O barrier rewrite (enables full barrier support on serial ATA drives) 2.6.11 released March 2, 2005 [http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.11 changelog]: * [http://lwn.net/Articles/117749/ Conversion to 4-level page tables] * [http://lwn.net/Articles/112531/ Infiniband support] * Support for Extended Attributes in the body of large inode in ext3: saves space and improves performance in some cases * Fujitsu FR-V CPU arch implementation * SATA support for Intel ICH7 * [http://lwn.net/Articles/115405/ DebugFS] * [http://lwn.net/Articles/118750/ New Pipe implementation] * [http://lwn.net/Articles/102253/ "Big Kernel Sempahore"] 2.6.10 released December 24, 2004 [http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.10 changelog]: * [http://lwn.net/Articles/109505 Reworking of spin lock initialization] * Big Kernel Lock preemption * IRQ subsystem code rework * Removal of the "BIO walking" helper functions * [http://lwn.net/Articles/107314/ generic circular buffer type] * Ext3 block reservation and online resizing patches * [http://lwn.net/Articles/69523/ sysfs backing store] * [http://lwn.net/Articles/103183/ I/O space write barriers] * On-the-fly switchable I/O schedulers * BSD secure levels module * kernel events notification mechanism * In-kernel cryptographic key management * DVD+RW and CDRW packet writing support 2.6.9 released October 19, 2004 [http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.9 changelog]: * [http://lwn.net/Articles/96621 Token-based thrashing control] * Support of block I/O barrier * m32r architecture support * Allow unprivileged processes to lock small amounts of memory in RAM * Tunable "max sectors" limit for block I/O requests (can help latency reduction) * New prctl() option allowing programs to change their name (PR_GET_NAME) * AMD dual-core support * [http://lwn.net/Articles/97537/ Out-of-line spinlocks] * Support for POSIX's waitid() * Shared memory scalability improvements * [http://lwn.net/Articles/91829/ "flex mmap" user-space memory layout] * Change in TCP ICMP source quench behavior * [http://www.linux-usb.org/gadget/h2-otg.html USB "on the go" support] * New USB storage driver * Support for more than eight partitions on BSD-labeled disks * Ethtool support in the loopback driver * [http://lwn.net/Articles/101215/ NETIF_F_LLTX interface] * Removal of the ancient "busmouse" driver * Infrastructure for cluster-wide file locking * DRM subsystem cleanups * more filesystem conversions to the new symbolic link resolution code (which will eventually allow an increase in the maximum link depth) * "fake NUMA" mode for x86-64 testing * Small-footprint tmpfs implementation * Support for scheduler profiling (seeing where context switches come from) * Automatic TCP window scaling calculation * Removal of the Philips webcam driver * Some VFS interface improvements * Executable support in hugetlb mappings * The Whirlpool digest algorithm * Removal of the very last suser() call 2.6.8 released August 14, 2004 [http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.8 changelog]: * support for 64-bit Super-H hardware * Removal of the PC9800 subarchitecture (lack of mainteinance) * x86 no-execute support, asynchronous I/O support for USB gadgets * [http://lwn.net/Articles/91959/ reworked symbolic link lookup implementation] * New "CPU mask" implementation * RCU performance improvements * Support for new Apple Powerbooks * New wait_event_interruptible_exclusive() macro * Support for the O_NOATIME flag in the open() call * Sysfs knobs for tuning the CFQ I/O scheduler * Mirroring and snapshot targets for the device mapper * Reiserfs data=journal support * Preemptible kernel support for the PPC64 architecture * "Khazad" crypto algorithm * [http://lwn.net/Articles/98379/ Added permissions checking on raw SCSI commands from user space] * Removal of the fcntl() file operations method * New internal infrastructure for handling file positioning and seekability * Support for the O_NOATIME flag in the open() call * Removal of the (non-functional) "fastroute" networking option * TEA and XTEA crypto algorithms 2.6.7 released June 16, 2004 [http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.7 changelog]: * [http://lwn.net/Articles/80911/ Scheduling Domains] * [http://lwn.net/Articles/83633/ Filtered Wakeups] * Ability to re-enable interrupts while waiting in spin_lock_irqsave() (for all architectures now) * msleep() function for millisecond-scale waits * [http://lwn.net/Articles/84836/ del_singleshot_timer()]: Deleting timers quickly * shrink "dentry" structure * Removal of the Intermezzo filesystem (lack of mainteinance) * Support for quotas and external attributes in reiserfs * Removal of IDE tagged command queueing support (never worked well) * new API for NUMA systems 2.6.6 released May 10, 2004 [http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.6 changelog]: * [http://lwn.net/Articles/80472/ full object-based reverse-mapping scheme and removal of the per-page PTE chains] * Network packet timestamping optimization * [http://www.geocities.com/wronski12/posix_ipc/index.html POSIX message queues] * Message queues for the x86_64 and s390 architectures * fsync() and fdatasync() speed improvements to ext2/3 * [http://lwn.net/Articles/77190/ addition of the fcntl() method to the file_operations structure] * [http://lwn.net/Articles/65437/ "Laptop Mode"] * 4KB kernel stacks option for the i386 architecture * Non-executable stack support for several architectures * Reiserfs updates: data=ordered support, space preallocation, laptop mode support * IPv6 support in SELinux * [http://lwn.net/Articles/79326/ The lightweight auditing framework] * A mechanism which allows block drivers to respond to queries about the congestion state of their queues * [http://lwn.net/Articles/75233/ "per-device unplugging patch"] * CFQ scheduler * External module support * Generic snapshot support code for filesystems (taken from XFS) 2.6.5 released April 4, 2004 [http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.5 changelog]: * [http://lwn.net/Articles/75944 Netpoll infrastructure] * [http://lwn.net/Articles/75920 New "kref" reference counting mechanism] 2.6.4 released March 11, 2004 [http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.4 changelog]: * HFS rewrite * Support for the Intel "ia32e" arch * UTF-8 tty mode * Dynamic PTY allocation (up to a million PTY devices) * Sysfs support for SCSI tapes and bluetooth devices * [ARC4 crypto module Support for large numbers of groups] * [http://lwn.net/Articles/65178/ Generic kernel thread infrastructure] * Groundwork for the hotplug CPU code * ARC4 crypto module 2.6.3 released February 18, 2004 [http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.3 changelog]: * Removal of the USB scanner code: moved support to userspace (libusb) * [http://lwn.net/Articles/69402/ New DMA pool abstraction] * "context mount" support for SELinux 2.6.2 released February 4, 2004 [http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.2 changelog]: * New Qlogic SCSI driver 2.6.1 released January 9, 2004 [http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.1 changelog]: * [http://lwn.net/Articles/44135/ Message Signaled Interrupt support] * Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) support. 2.6.0 released December 18, 2003 [http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.0 changelog]: 2.6.0-test9: * [http://lwn.net/Articles/44243/ libata driver architecture] 2.6.0-test6: * [http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=104344596912094&w=2 32-bit dev_t] * Direct I/O support for reiserfs 2.6.0-test3: * [http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/index.html SELinux] 2.6.0-test1: * [http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org/ Linux Virtual Server layer] 2.5.75 released July 10, 2003: * [http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-mm&m=104529418208788&w=2 Anticipatory Scheduler] * "kblockd" kernel threads * "nointegrity" JFS mount option 2.5.74 released July 2, 2003: 2.5.73 released June 22, 2003: 2.5.72 released June 17, 2003: 2.5.71 released June 14, 2003: * [http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=104981044405395&w=2 Switch the IDE I/O layers to taskfile] 2.5.70 released May 27, 2003: * [http://www.linux-usb.org/gadget USB gadget support] 2.5.69 released May 5, 2003: * [http://lwn.net/Articles/29555/ New interrupt handling API] * Runtime barrier instruction patching: Allows optimal performance on different processors without the need to ship multiple kernels 2.5.68 released April 20, 2003: * Merging s390 and s390x into a single architecture * Generation of hotplug events from kobject registration 2.5.67 released April 7, 2003: 2.5.66 released March 24, 2003: 2.5.65 released March 17, 2003: * [http://www.kerneltrap.org/node.php?id=603 Desktop Interactivity Improvements] 2.5.64 released March 5, 2003: 2.5.63 released February 24, 2003: * [http://high-res-timers.sourceforge.net/ POSIX timers] 2.5.62 released February 17, 2003: * [http://lse.sourceforge.net/locking/dcache/dcache_lock.html Avoid dcache_lock while path walking] 2.5.61 released February 15, 2003: 2.5.60 released February 10, 2003: * New modversions implementation * 64-bit jiffies 2.5.59 released Janury 17, 2003: * [http://home.arcor.de/efocht/sched/ NUMA aware scheduler extensions] 2.5.58 released January 14, 2003: 2.5.57 released January 13, 2003: * [http://www.zipworld.com.au/~akpm/linux/schedlat.html Remove long-held locks for low scheduling latency] 2.5.56 released January 10, 2003: 2.5.55 released January 9, 2003: 2.5.54 released January 2, 2003: * [http://secure.netroedge.com/~lm78/ Add lm-sensors drivers for hardware health monitoring] * Support for AGP 3.0 2.5.53 released December 24, 2002: * "sysenter" support 2.5.52 released December 16, 2002: 2.5.51 released December 10, 2002: * [http://linuxconsole.sourceforge.net/ Rewrite of the console layer] * Compatibility syscall layer 2.5.50 released November 27, 2002: 2.5.49 released November 22, 2002: 2.5.48 released November 18, 2002: * [http://lists.insecure.org/lists/linux-kernel/2002/Oct/6214.html In-kernel module loader] 2.5.47 released November 11, 2002: * [http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0204.1/0429.html Zerocopy NFS] 2.5.46 released November 4, 2002: * [http://www.xmailserver.org/linux-patches/nio-improve.html Better I/O performance with epoll] * Per-cpu hot & cold page lists * [http://lists.insecure.org/lists/linux-kernel/2002/Oct/7027.html MMU-less processor support (ucLinux)] * [http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=101095500820185&w=2 Replace initrd by initramfs] * Extended Attributes and ACLs for ext2/ext3 2.5.45 released October 31, 2002: * [http://www.xs4all.nl/~zippel/lc/ New Linux configuration system: kconfig] * [http://samba.org/~jamesm/crypto/ CryptoAPI] * [ftp://ftp.linux-ipv6.org/pub/usagi/patch/ipsec/ IPSEC] * [http://www.linuxtv.org/dvb/ Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB) layer] * [http://www.sistina.com/products_lvm.htm Device mapper for Logical Volume Manager (LVM2)] 2.5.44 released October 19, 2002: * New sysfs filesystem (formerly known as driverfs) * Plug'N Play Layer Rewrite * [http://lwn.net/Articles/9042/ x86 BIOS Enhanced Disk Device (EDD) polling] 2.5.43 released October 16, 2002: * [http://www.psc.edu/general/filesys/afs/ Andrew File System (AFS) support] * [http://oprofile.sourceforge.net/ OProfile, a low-overhead profiler] * [http://lse.sourceforge.net/locking Read-Copy Update (RCU) Mutual Exclusion] * [http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/nfsv4/ Add support for NFS v4] * Remove kiobufs 2.5.42 released October 12, 2002: * [http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=103298446916066&w=2 ext2/ext3 large directory support: HTree index] * [http://us1.samba.org/samba/Linux_CIFS_client.html Add new CIFS (Common Internet File System)] * [http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au/ Remove the 2TB block device limit] * Improved i2o (Intelligent Input/Ouput) layer 2.5.41 released October 7, 2002: 2.5.40 released October 1, 2002: * [http://lse.sourceforge.net/numa Parallelizing page replacement] * [http://lse.sourceforge.net/numa NUMA topology support * [http://www.brodo.de/cpufreq/ Add support for CPU clock/voltage scaling] 2.5.39 released September 27, 2002: * New IO scheduler ("deadline") 2.5.38 released September 22, 2002: 2.5.37 released September 20, 2002: * [http://users.pandora.be/bart.de.schuymer/ebtables/ Ethernet bridge tables support] * Remove the global tasklist 2.5.36 released September 18, 2002: * Hugepage support * [http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/ XFS filesystem from SGI] 2.5.35 released September 16, 2002: * Serial ATA support * [http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/index.html Add User-Mode Linux (UML)] 2.5.34 released September 9, 2002: * POSIX threading support for signals * [http://lse.sourceforge.net/numa discontigmem support (ia32)] 2.5.33 released August 31, 2002: * TCP segmentation offload * [http://www.sf.net/projects/lksctp SCTP (Stream Control Transmission Protocol)] 2.5.32 released August 27, 2002: * [http://people.redhat.com/drepper/nptl-design.pdf Improved POSIX threading support] * [http://freshmeat.net/projects/linux-aio/ Asynchronous IO (aio) support] * Porting all input devices over to input API * New MTRR (Memory Type Range Register) driver 2.5.31 released August 11, 2002: * Support insane number of processes * Disk description cleanups * Remove incomplete SPX network stack 2.5.30 released August 1, 2002: * Remove khttpd 2.5.29 released July 27, 2002: * Strict address space accounting * [http://lsm.immunix.org/ Add Linux Security Module (LSM)] * [http://people.redhat.com/mingo/tls-patches/ Thread-Local Storage (TLS) support] 2.5.28 released July 24, 2002: * Remove the "Big IRQ lock" * Serial driver restructure 2.5.27 released July 20, 2002: * [http://surriel.com/patches/ New VM with reverse mappings] 2.5.26 releasaed July 16, 2002: * Direct pagecache <-> BIO disk I/O 2.5.25 releaseed July 5, 2002: * [http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0207.0/0741.html Faster internal kernel clock frequency] * Unified naming for disk devices 2.5.24 released June 20, 2002: 2.5.23 released June 19, 2002: * [http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rusty/patches/Hotcpu/ Hotplug CPU support] * [http://bazar.conectiva.com.br/~acme/patches/wip More complete IEEE 802.2 stack] 2.5.22 released June 17, 2002: 2.5.21 released June 9, 2002: 2.5.20 released June 3, 2002: 2.5.19 released May 29, 2002: 2.5.18 released May 25, 2002: * [http://falcon.sch.bme.hu/~seasons/linux/swsusp.html Software suspend (to disk & RAM)] * ->getattr() ->setattr() ->permission() changes 2.5.17 released May 21, 2002: * Move ISDN4linux to CAPI based interface * [http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-fsdevel&m=101586205801483&w=2 New quota system supporting plugins] 2.5.16 released May 18, 2002: 2.5.15 released May 9, 2002: 2.5.14 released May 6, 2002: * Bluetooth support (no longer experimental!) * [http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0204.1/1250.html Support for IDE TCQ (Tagged Command Queueing)] 2.5.13 released May 3, 2002: 2.5.12 released May 1, 2002: * Rewrite of the buffer layer 2.5.11 released April 29, 2002: * Rewrite of the framebuffer layer * [http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0204.3/0129.html Fast walk dcache] * [http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/ Replace old NTFS driver with NTFS TNG driver] 2.5.10 released April 24, 2002: 2.5.9 released April 22, 2002: * Smarter IRQ balancing 2.5.8 released April 14, 2002: * [http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0204.1/0215.html Radix-tree pagecache] * [http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rml/cpu-affinity Syscall interface for CPU task affinity] 2.5.7 released March 18, 2002: * [http://sourceforge.net/projects/acpi/ ACPI (Advanced Configuration & Power Interface)] * [ftp://robur.slu.se/pub/Linux/net-development/NAPI/ NAPI network interrupt mitigation] * [http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0203.0/0884.html Futexes (Fast Lightweight Userspace Semaphores] * [http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0203.0/0335.html Video for Linux (V4L) redesign] * [http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html New driver API for Wireless Extensions] 2.5.6 released March 8, 2002: * [http://www.hojdpunkten.ac.se/054/samba/ http://www.hojdpunkten.ac.se/054/samba/] * [http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/linux/linux-kernel/2002-01/0438.html HDLC (High-level Data Link Control) update] * [http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0202.2/0920.html per_cpu infrastructure] * [http://www-124.ibm.com/jfs/ Add JFS (Journaling FileSystem from IBM)] * Killing kdev_t for block devices 2.5.5 released February 20, 2002: * [http://linuxppc64.org/ New architecture: PowerPC 64-bit (ppc64)] * [http://www.x86-64.org/ New architecture: AMD 64-bit (x86-64)] * [http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0202.2/0297.html Pagetables in highmem support] * [http://www.alsa-project.org/ Add ALSA (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture] 2.5.4 released February 11, 2002: * [http://www-124.ibm.com/developerworks/oss/pthreads/ Support for Next Generation POSIX Threading] * [ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rml/preempt-kernel/ Add preempt kernel option] * Per network protocol slabcache & sock.h * [http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=100942323913586&w=2 Per filesystem slabcache & fs.h] 2.5.3 released January 30, 2002: * [http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/mochel/doc/ New driver model & unified device tree] * [http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0109.3/1341.html PnP BIOS driver] * [http://www.geocrawler.com/mail/msg.php3?msg_id=7686796&list=35 Generic Extended Attribute support] * [http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=101077476005939&w=2 Support reiserfs external journal] * [http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=101121711408999&w=2 IDE layer update] * [http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0202.0/0260.html Untangle sched.h & fs.h include dependancies] * [http://www.geocrawler.com/lists/3/Linux/35/100/7642826/ Break Configure.help into multiple files] 2.5.2 released January 15, 2002: * [http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=100992347220716&w=2 New kernel device structure (kdev_t)] * [http://people.redhat.com/mingo/O(1)-scheduler/ O(1) scheduler for improved scalability] * [http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-fsdevel&m=98307457705210&w=2 Filesystem per-process namespaces, late-boot cleanups] * [http://www.linux-usb.org/usb2.html Initial support for USB 2.0] 2.5.1 December 17, 2001: * Rewrite of the block IO (bio) layer Rules: * Name of the new feature/description of the change, including a small explanation if possible * If its a feature and the feature has some web page add a link to it * If there's a paper (OLS!) or an article add a link to it. Or write one ;) * If there's a interesting mail (benchmarks, announcements if there's no web page, etc) about it in the mailing list, get a link in one of the list's archives and add the link here * Add commit's link if possible (search them [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=log here)] TODO: * Import relevant data from [http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/post-halloween-2.5.txt davej's post halloween document] or remainig stuff from [http://kernelnewbies.org/status/latest.html Kernelnewbies status] * Find links to corresponding changesets (!!) * Keep track of what gets changed |
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Linux 6.7 was released on Sunday, 7 January 2024.
Summary: This release includes bcachefs, a new filesystem that implements the same kind of modern features you can expect from Btrfs and ZFS; it also includes the first pieces of the future futex2 system call; support in Btrfs for a RAID stripe tree that will be used to implement some future new features; suport in BPF for exceptions and other features; support for io_uring features such as multishot reads, cancelable uring_cmd, support for {s,g}etsockopt commands and other things; support for TCP Authentication Option; and allow disabling x86 32 bit emulation. As always, there are many other features, new drivers, improvements and fixes.
Contents
- Prominent features
- Core
- Memory Management
- File systems
- Block layer
- Security
- Cryptography
- Virtualization
- Tracing, probing and BPF
- Networking
- Architectures
-
Drivers
- Graphics
- Networking drivers
- Storage
- Sound
- USB
- TTY layer and serial drivers
- Staging area
- Media devices (V4L/DVB)
- Thermal
- Watchdog
- Voltage and current regulator
- MULTIFUNCTION DEVICES (MFD)
- MULTIMEDIA CARD (MMC), SECURE DIGITAL (SD) AND SDIO SUBSYSTEM
- NFC SUBSYSTEM
- PCI
- PIN CONTROL SUBSYSTEM
- MEMORY TECHNOLOGY DEVICES (MTD)
- POWER SUPPLY CLASS/SUBSYSTEM and DRIVERS
- REAL TIME CLOCK (RTC)
- HARDWARE MONITORING
- I2C
- IIO
- INPUT (KEYBOARD, MOUSE, JOYSTICK, TOUCHSCREEN) DRIVERS
- LED
- HWMON
- REMOTE PROCESSOR (REMOTEPROC)
- DMA GENERIC OFFLOAD ENGINE
- COMPUTE EXPRESS LINK (CXL)
- COUNTER SUBSYSTEM
- CPU FREQUENCY SCALING FRAMEWORK
- COMMON CLK FRAMEWORK
- SYSTEM CONTROL & POWER/MANAGEMENT INTERFACE (SCPI/SCMI) Message Protocol drivers
- IOMMU SUBSYSTEM
- DRM COMPUTE ACCELERATORS
- Various
- Pull requests
- Other news sites
1. Prominent features
1.1. Bcachefs, a new modern file system
This release includes bcachefs, a new modern file systems that aims to provide the kind of modern features that you can find in ZFS/Btrfs (copy on write model, full checksumming, multivolume management, snapshots, compression, encryption, etc). For more details see https://bcachefs.org/
1.2. First pieces of futex2
The futex(2) ("fast userspace mutex") system call has a number of limitations. This system call has incorporated too much funcionality over the years; in order to avoid the dreaded "multiplexed syscall" pattern (one single system call doing many things), it has been decided to incorporate multiple calls (futex_wait, futex_wake, futex_requeue). This release adds the first pieces of these new system calls - the complete feature set will be added in future releases.
Recommended LWN article: A new futex API
1.3. Btrfs stripe tree and other improvements
This release introduces the RAID stripe tree, a new tree for logical file extent mapping where the physical mapping may not match on multiple devices. This is now used in zoned mode to implement RAID0/RAID1* profiles, but can be used in non-zoned mode as well. The support for RAID56 is in development and will eventually fix the problems with the current implementation.
This release also includes support for temporary filesystem ID and simple quota accounting.
Recommended read: Design document
1.4. BPF exceptions and other features
As usual, BPF incorporates a few new features, one of them being BPF exceptions, which allow a BPF program testing conditions that are always true at runtime but which the verifier has no visibility into, and then quitting and unwinding safely.
Recommended LWN article: Exceptions in BPF
1.5. io_uring improvements
This release includes as number of improvements to the io_uring interface
- Multishot reads
- Cancelable uring_cmd
Initial support for {s,g}etsockopt commands
- An async version of waitid(2)
- Add support for using futexes through io_uring - first futex wake and wait, and then the vectored variant of waiting, futex waitv
1.6. Support for TCP Authentication Option
This release adds support for TCP Authentication Option (RFC5925). The TCP Authentication Option (TCP-AO) provides a TCP extension aimed at verifying segments between trusted peers. It adds a new TCP header option with a Message Authentication Code (MAC). MACs are produced from the content of a TCP segment using a hashing function with a password known to both peers. The intent of TCP-AO is to deprecate TCP-MD5 providing better security, key rotation and support for variety of hashing algorithms.
Recommended read: Documentation, RFC 5925
1.7. Allow disabling x86 32 bit emulation
x86-64 processors support running 32 bit software. In order to allow running that software under Linux, the kernel provides 32-bit syscalls. Some distributions would like to disable this layer in order to reduce their attack surface as much as possible but at the same time they'd want to retain flexibility to cater to a variety of legacy software. In order to suppor this case, this release allows to enable/disable this feature at boot time.
2. Core
Add the futex2 family of system calls (futex_wait, futex_wake, futex_requeue), which are an attempt to get away from the multiplex syscall and adds a little room for extensions, while lifting some limitations commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
console: introduce the new non-BKL consoles (nbcon) base commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Expose boot-loader kernel command-line arguments commit, commit, commit
file: convert file cache to rely on SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU which allows us to get rid of call_rcu() based freeing for files commit
fanotify: Support more filesystems with FAN_REPORT_FID commit, commit, commit, commit
- Task scheduler
Give CPUs within the same cluster a try before scanning the whole LLC to benefit those tasks communicating with each other commit, commit, commit
Ratelimit updates to tg->load_avg commit
numa: Complete scanning of partial and inactive VMAs commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Remove SIS_PROP, SIS_UTIL seems to work well commit
Disable IBRS when CPU is offline to improve single-threaded performance commit
prctl: Allow MDWE without inheritance commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
char: implement splice() for /dev/zero, /dev/full commit
- io_uring
Add support for using futexes through io_uring - first futex wake and wait, and then the vectored variant of waiting, futex waitv commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Initial support for {s,g}etsockopt commands commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Add support for an async version of waitid(2) commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
cgroup/cpuset: Support remote partitions, where CPUs can be reserved for exclusive use down the tree without requiring all the intermediate nodes to be partitions. This makes it easier to use partitions without modifying existing cgroup hierarchy. It introduces new cpuset control files cpuset.cpus.exclusive (read-write) and cpuset.cpus.exclusive.effective (read only) for better control of which exclusive CPUs are being distributed down the cgroup hierarchy commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
cgroup/cpuset: Enable invalid to valid local partition transition commit
cgroup: add cgroup_favordynmods= command-line option to disable favorynmods when the kernel built with CONFIG_FAVOR_DYNMODS=y commit
RCU: Add RCU CPU stall notifier commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
firmware: Add support for Qualcomm UEFI Secure Application commit, commit, commit
- rust
kbuild: support 'userldlibs' syntax commit
tools/nolibc: add support for constructors and destructors commit
modpost: Optimize symbol search from linear to binary search commit
3. Memory Management
Lockless slab shrinking using refcount + RCU. Recommended LWN article. commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Batch hugetlb vmemmap modification operations commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Improve the performance of accounted kernel memory allocations by ~30% as measured by a micro-benchmark commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Add statistics for PUD level pagetable commit
Permit write-sealed memfd read-only shared mappings commit, commit, commit
Optimize mremap during mutual alignment within PMD commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
memory tiering: calculate abstract distance based on ACPI HMAT commit, commit, commit, commit
KSM: Smarter scanning mode for KSM keeping historic information. With the historic information we can temporarily skip the candidate page for one or several scans commit, commit, commit, commit
Add PAGEMAP_SCAN IOCTL to get and optionally clear info about PTEs. The goal is to emulate Windows GetWriteWatch() and ResetWriteWatch() syscalls commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Handle more faults under the VMA lock commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Abstract vma_merge() and split_vma() commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Tune the PCP (Per-CPU Pageset) high on each CPU automatically to optimize the page allocation performance commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
zswap: export compression failure stats commit
memcg: add THP swap out info for anonymous reclaim commit
memcg: hugetlb memcg accounting commit, commit, commit, commit
- damon
- folios work
Convert numa balancing functions to use a folio commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Finish the create_empty_buffers() transition commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
rmap: convert page_move_anon_rmap() to folio_move_anon_rmap() commit, commit, commit
futex: Use a folio instead of a page commit
Convert page cpupid functions to folios commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Add folio_end_read commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
migrate: more folio conversion and unification commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Some khugepaged folio conversions commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
4. File systems
4.1. bcachefs
Prerequisite patch series commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Merge request: initial bcachefs updates
4.2. Btrfs
Introduce the RAID stripe tree, a new tree for logical file extent mapping where the physical mapping may not match on multiple devices. This is now used in zoned mode to implement RAID0/RAID1* profiles, but can be used in non-zoned mode as well. The support for RAID56 is in development and will eventually fix the problems with the current implementation. This is a backward incompatible feature and has to be enabled at mkfs time Design document. commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Simple quota accounting (squota): A simplified mode of qgroup that accounts all space on the initial extent owners (a subvolume), the snapshots are then cheap to create and delete commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Temporary filesystem fs ID: Support mounting a filesystem with the same id coming from a cloned-device, by generating a temporary id commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Cleanups and struct packing commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Updates to delayed refs accounting and space reservation, improves some workloads commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Make extent state merges more efficient during insertions, reduce rb-tree iterations (run time of critical functions reduced by 5%) commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Adjust reservation sizes for block group item updates/inserts commit, commit
tree-checker: add type and sequence check for inline backrefs commit
Remove check-integrity functionality commit, commit, commit, commit
4.3. Ceph
Support idmapped mounts commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
4.4. CIFS
Allow dumping session and tcon id to improve stats analysis and debugging commit
4.5. EFI VARIABLE FILESYSTEM
Add uid/gid mount options commit
4.6. exFAT
4.7. F2FS
4.8. FSCRYPT
Add support for sub block data granularity commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Track master key presence separately from secret commit
4.9. GFS2
Patches on for-next commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
4.10. Autofs
4.11. KSMBD
ksmbd: add support for surrogate pair conversion commit
4.12. OVERLAY
New mount options lowerdir+,datadir+ commit, commit, commit, commit
Support nested overlayfs mounts with xattrs and whiteous commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
4.13. XFS
CPU usage optimizations for realtime allocator commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Allow read IO and FICLONE to run concurrently commit
4.14. ext2
4.15. NFS
SunRPC thread scheduler work that was begun in v6.6. The scheduler can now find an service thread to wake in constant time and without a list walk commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Add netlink-based NFSD control plane. The long-term plan is to provide the same functionality as found in /proc/fs/nfsd, plus some interesting additions, and then migrate the NFSD user space utilities to netlink commit, commit
NFSv4.x client improvements for knfsd re-exporting commit, commit
5. Block layer
badblocks improvement for multiple bad block ranges commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
blk-mq: optimize queue_rqs() support commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
dm: error: Add support for zoned block devices commit
6. Security
hardening: Provide a dedicated Kconfig fragments for basic options commit
AppArmor
- landlock
configfs-tsm: Attestation Report ABI. The current momentum has been to invent new ioctl-ABI per TSM per function which at best is an abdication of the kernel's responsibility to make common infrastructure concepts share common ABI. This proposal, targeted to conceptually work with TDX, SEV-SNP, COVE if not more, is to define a configfs interface to retrieve the TSM-specific blob commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
7. Cryptography
mscode_parser: remove sha224 authenticode support commit
asymmetric_keys: allow FIPS 202 SHA-3 signatures commit
pkcs7: remove md4 md5 x.509 support commit
pkcs7: remove sha1 support commit
Fix chaining support for stream ciphers (arc4 only for now) commit, commit, commit, commit
jitter: Offer compile-time options to accommodate different hardware with different entropy rates implied in their timers. This allows configuring the Jitter RNG in systems which exhibits insufficient entropy with the default parameters commit, commit, commit
pkcs7 x509 add FIPS 202 SHA-3 support commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
- qat
8. Virtualization
Xen: privcmd: Add ioeventfd and fix irqfd support commit, commit, commit, commit
vdpa: decouple reset of iotlb mapping from device reset commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
vsock: MSG_ZEROCOPY flag support commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
9. Tracing, probing and BPF
BPF: Add the first part of the runtime and verifier support needed to enable BPF exceptions commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
BPF: Add ability to pin bpf timer to calling CPU commit, commit
BPF: Add cgroup sockaddr hooks for unix sockets commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
BPF: Add support for local percpu kptr commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
BPF: Add missed stats for kprobes commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
BPF: Allow to use kfunc XDP hints and frags together commit
libbpf: Add basic BTF sanity validation commit
libbpf: Support symbol versioning for uprobe commit, commit, commit
libbpf: adds a new ring__ API to libbpf exposing getters for accessing the individual ringbuffers inside a struct ring_buffer. This is useful for polling individually, getting available data, or similar use cases commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
- perf
perf kwork top: Introduce new top utility commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
perf record: Track sideband events for all CPUs when tracing selected CPUs commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
perf lock contention: Add cgroup support commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
perf test shell lock_contention: Add cgroup aggregation and filter tests commit
PMU performance improvements commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
tracing/user_events: Allow events to persist for perfmon_capable users commit, commit, commit
eventfs: Remove eventfs_file and just use eventfs_inode commit
kprobes: introduces a scalable and lockless ring-array based object pool to improve scalability of kretprobed routines commit, commit, commit, commit
10. Networking
TCP: Support TCP Authentication Option (RFC 5925, TCP-AO), a more modern replacement for the old MD5 option commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
nvme-tcp: In-kernel TLS support for TCP commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
TCP: Add optional usec resolution of TCP timestamps, enabled selectively by a route attribute commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
TCP: Set pingpong threshold via sysctl commit
- packet scheduler
netlink: add variable-length / auto integers commit, commit, commit
Data-races fixes and lockless socket options commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit. More: commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, More: commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Add bpf programmable net device which can operate in L3 or L2 mode where the BPF program is part of the xmit routine. Its program management is done via bpf_mprog and it comes with BPF link support. commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commitcommit, commit
Expose devlink instances relationships commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Add MDB get support, allowing user space to request a single MDB entry to be retrieved instead of dumping the entire MDB. Support is added in both the bridge and VXLAN drivers commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
- Wireless
Add implementation for set_antenna API and initial support for TID to link mapping commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Additional processing in beacon updates commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
OWE DH IE handling offload commit
xfrm: Support GRO decapsulation for ESP in UDP encapsulation commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
xsk: add multi-buffer support for sockets sharing umem commit
bridge: Add a limit on learned FDB entries commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Add sysctl to disable rfc4862 5.5.3e lifetime handling commit
vxlan: Extend driver to support FDB flushing commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
mptcp: add a new sysctl for make after break timeout commit
ipv6: avoid atomic fragment on GSO output commit, commit, commit
TCP: Defer regular TCP ACK while processing socket backlog, try to send a cumulative ACK at the end. Increase single TCP flow performance on a 200Gbit NIC by 20% commit, commit, commit, commit
rtnetlink: add additional command line options commit, commit
pktgen: Introducing 'SHARED' flag for testing with non-shared skb commit, commit
netconsole: configfs entries for boot target commit, commit, commit, commit
bareudp: use ports to lookup route commit
netlink: convert netlink code to use YAML spec commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
bpf: expose information about netdev xdp-metadata kfunc support commit, commit, commit, commit
appletalk: remove cops support commit
Infiniband: Add 800Gb (XDR) speed support commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
- RDMA
11. Architectures
11.1. IA64
11.2. ARM
- Device Tree Sources
New SoC: AMD Pensando Elba is a data processing unit based on Cortex-A72 CPU cores commit, commit, commit, commit
New SoC: Qualcomm Snapdragon 720G (sm7125) is a close relative of Snapdragon 7c and gets added with some Xiaomi phones commit, commit, commit, commit
New SoC: Renesas gains support for the R8A779F4 (R-Car S4-8) automotive SoC commit, commit, commit and the RZ/G3S (R9A08G045) embedded SoC commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
USRobotics USR8200 is a NAS/Firewall/router based on the ancient Intel IXP4xx platform commit
One machine each for Allwinner V3s commit, commit, commit, commit, Aspeed AST2600 commit, commit, Microchip sama5d29 commit, commit and ST STM32mp157 commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Initial support for the Fairphone 5 smartphone commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
amlogic: add libretech cottonwood support commit
qcom: msm8939-longcheer-l9100: Add initial dts commit, commit, commit
imx6q: Add Variscite MX6 Custom board support commit, commit, commit
Add BigTreeTech CB1 SoM & Boards commit, commit, commit, commit
meson: a1: introduce several peripheral IPs commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Add support for the phyGATE-Tauri-L IoT Gateway commit, commit
freescale: Add support for LX2162 SoM & Clearfog Board commit, commit, commit, commit
imx8mp: add imx8mp-venice-gw74xx-imx219 overlay for rpi v2 camera commit
mediatek: Add newer revisions of Google Spherion and Hayato commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
mediatek: add device-tree for Genio 1200 EVK board commit, commit
Add no-esim sku for sc7180-lazor family and new board version for audio codec ALC5682i-VS commit, commit
rockchip: Add board device tree for rk3588-orangepi-5-plus commit
rockchip: Add QuartzPro64 SBC device tree commit
Add Support for RK3566 Powkiddy RGB30 commit, commit, commit, commit
Add initial devicetree for Turing RK1 commit, commit, commit
Add metrics for Arm CMN commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
perf vendor events arm64: Update V1 events using Arm telemetry repo commit, commit
Support for Arm v8.8 memcpy instructions in KVM guests commit, commit
Add IPI for backtraces / kgdb; try to use NMI for some IPIs commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
qcom: sa8775p: add support for EP PCIe commit, commit, commit
soc: mediatek: MT8365 power support commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
qcom: Add power domain support for SC8380XP commit, commit, commit
qcom: rpmhpd: Introduce Power Domains support for SM8650 commit, commit
arm_scmi/cpufreq: Add generic performance scaling support commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
firmware: arm_ffa: Add FF-A v1.1 support(notification + new memory descriptor format) commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
arm_cspmu: ampere: Add support for Ampere SoC PMUs commit, commit, commit, commit
Add S4 SoC PLLs and Peripheral clock commit, commit, commit, commit
amlogic: Add support for T7 power domains controller commit
amlogic: add driver to support power parent node commit
Add pinctrl driver support for Amlogic T7 SoCs commit, commit, commit
turris-omnia: updates commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
i2c: qcom-geni: add ACPI device id for sc8180x commit
rockchip: Add RV1126 Display (MIPI DSI) support commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
arm32, bpf: add support for cpuv4 insns commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Enable 'writable' ID registers commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
PMU: Allow userspace to limit the number of PMCs on vCPU commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
11.3. x86
microcode: Cleanup and late loading enhancements commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Intel metric fixes and event updates commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
KVM: Add feature flag for CPUID.80000021H:EAX[bit 1] commit
Unify TDCALL/SEAMCALL and TDVMCALL assembly commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Support TDX guests on Hyper-V (the x86/tdx part) commit
locking/lockref/x86: Enable ARCH_USE_CMPXCHG_LOCKREF for X86_CMPXCHG64 commit
amd_nb: Add AMD Family MI300 PCI IDs commit
perf/amd: Add memory controller events commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Make IA32_EMULATION boot time overridable commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
cpu: Rework the topology evaluation commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Add CONFIG_KVM_MAX_NR_VCPUS to allow up to 4096 vCPUs commit
resctrl: Miscellaneous resctrl features commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Add new platform support for DBC commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
iommu/amd: SVA Support (Part 1) - cleanup/refactoring commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit (part 2) - deprecate iommu_v2 module commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
A kernel boot parameter that causes the kernel to panic if one of the call_smp_function() APIs is stalled for more than the specified duration commit
- platform
11.4. S390
BPF: Implement cpuv4 support commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
DMA API conversion and optimized IOTLB flushing commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
zcrypt: introduce new internal AP queue se_bound attribute commit
11.5. SUPERH
11.6. PowerPC
Implement execute-only protection on powerpc commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
vas: Limit open window failure messages in log bufffer commit
Use BPF prog pack allocator commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
trace: Add support for HAVE_FUNCTION_ARG_ACCESS_API commit
vmcore: Add MMU information to vmcoreinfo commit
Generic and PowerPC SED Opal keystore commit, commit, commit
crypto: vmx: Improved AES/XTS performance of 6-way unrolling for ppc commit
KVM: Nested APIv2 guest support commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
ibmvfc: generic prep work for NVMeoF support commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
11.7. LoongArch
Add KVM support commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
BPF: Support cpu v4 instructions commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Support PREEMPT_DYNAMIC with static keys commit
11.8. PA-RISC
Allow building uncompressed Linux kernel commit
11.9. MIPS
11.10. RISC-V
Add Milk-V Pioneer RISC-V board support commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Add Milk-V Duo board support commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Risc-V Kvm Smstateen commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
RISC-V SBI debug console extension support commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
SCS support commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Add support to handle misaligned accesses in S-mode commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Improve PTDUMP and introduce new fields commit, commit, commit, commit
tlb flush improvements commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Enable cbo.zero in usermode commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
KVM Conditional Operations commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Show accurate per-hart isa in /proc/cpuinfo commit
11.11. SYNOPSYS ARC ARCHITECTURE
Add perf support to the rockchip-dfi driver commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
12. Drivers
12.1. Graphics
renesas: shmobile: Atomic conversion + DT support commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Add GPU page fault query interface commit, commit, commit, commit
- amdgpu
Add GFX 11.5 support commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Add support for DCN 3.5 commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Introduce DML version 2, a new version of DML that will be used for some already available ASIC based on DCN3x and future devices. This new version of the DML is more reliable, provide a better programming model for hardware/software, and is more flexible for creating new tools for automation/validation commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
A new set of Linux OD interfaces commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Add VPE Support. VPE is a new general purpose copy engine. It supports a variety of scaling and transform features commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Add UMSCH 4.0 support. UMSCH handles scheduling of multimedia queues similar to MES for GFX and SDMA UMSCH 4.0 commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Expose physical id of device in XGMI hive commit
DC Patches November 15, 2023 (SubVP support for more configs) commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
DC Patches August 18, 2023 commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
DC Patches August 23, 2023 (new debugfs interface to query the current ODM combine configurations, support for windowed MPO ODM) commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
DC Patches September 13, 2020 commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Enable seamless boot more widely commit, commit, commit, commit
- mediatek
- komeda
add NV12 format to support writeback layer type commit
- panfrost
- adreno
- nouveau
Initial support for GSP-RM 535.54.04 (and Ada GPUs) commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
- solomon
- rockchip
- Intel Xe:
Prerequisite DRM scheduler changes for Xe commit
- rockchip
vop2: Add more supported 10bit formats commit
- panel
- Intel
Add support for new DG2-G12 revid 0x1 commit
Add new DG2 PCI IDs commit
Enable Lunar Lake display commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Load LUTs with DSB commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
- bridge
12.2. Networking drivers
- Bluetooth
infiniband: Add more resource dumping to rdmatool for SRQ commit, commit, commit
RDMA/hns: Support SRQ record doorbell commit
ath10k: indicate to mac80211 scan complete with aborted flag for ATH10K_SCAN_STARTING state commit
rtw88: dump registers related to firmware state when it get abnormal commit, commit
- iwlwifi
Updates - 2023-10-04 commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Updates - 2023-10-11 commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Updates - 2023-10-17 commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Updates - 2023-10-22 commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Updates - 2023-09-21 commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
dsa: microchip: add drive strength support commit, commit, commit
- rtw89
Apply TX power read from firmware file commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Handle EHT rate commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Prepare timeslot and trigger firmware for MCC commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Generalize download firmware flow to support WiFi 7 chips commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Add TX/RX descriptor v2 and mac port registers for WiFi 7 chips commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
rt2x00: various improvements for MT7620 initialization commit, commit, commit
- ath12k
indicate scan complete for scan canceled when scan running commit
Enable IEEE80211_HW_SINGLE_SCAN_ON_ALL_BANDS for WCN7850 commit
Add support for hardware rfkill for WCN7850 commit
Add keep backward compatibility of PHY mode to avoid firmware crash commit
Add read variant from SMBIOS for download board data commit
- mt76
appletalk: remove ipddp driver commit
- bnxt_en
phy: broadcom: add support for BCM5221 phy commit
at91: add can_state_get_by_berr_counter() helper, cleanup and convert to rx_offload commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
pcs: xpcs: Add 2500BASE-X case in get state for XPCS drivers commit
phy: dp83867: Add support for hardware blinking LEDs commit
phy: amd: Support the Altima AMI101L commit
- hns3
- iavf
Introduce Intel IDPF driver commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
- ice
Add drop rule matching on not active lport commit
Add basic E830 support commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Implement cross timestamping for E823 commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Add PTP auxiliary bus support commit, commit, commit, commit
ethtool: Add link mode maps for forced speeds commit, commit, commit
i40e: Add basic devlink support commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
dpll: add phase-offset and phase-adjust commit, commit, commit, commit
octeon_ep: support to fetch firmware info commit
octeontx2-af: Enable hardware timestamping for VFs commit
octeontx2-pf: Tc flower offload support for MPLS commit
octeontx2-pf: Enable PTP PPS output support commit
Add WED support for MT7988 chipset commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
- mlxsw
- mlx5
Add chunk mode support for mlx5 driver commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
vdpa: adds support for vq descriptor table mappings which are used to improve vdpa live migration downtime commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Implement mkeys management via LIFO queue commit
Support IPsec packet offload in multiport RoCE devices commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Updates 2023-10-10 commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Updates 2023-09-19 commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
nfp: add offload support for CHACHA20-POLY1305 commit
Add software timestamp capabilities to xen-netback device commit
dsa: rtl8366rb: Implement setting up link on CPU port commit
tg3: Improve PTP TX timestamping logic commit
dsa: hsr: Enable HSR HW offloading for KSZ9477 commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
sfc: conntrack offload for tunnels commit, commit, commit, commit
ixp4xx_eth: Support changing the MTU commit
tsnep: Inline small fragments within TX descriptor commit
dsa: microchip: provide Wake on LAN support commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
dsa: microchip: Add partial ACL support for ksz9477 switches commit
12.3. Storage
ata: ahci: Add Intel Alder Lake-P AHCI controller to low power chipsets list commit
QLOGIC QLA4XXX iSCSI DRIVER: open-iSCSI driver for Qlogic Corporation's iSCSI HBAs commit
ufs: qcom: Align programming sequence as per HW spec commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
ufs: core: Add support for parsing OPP commit
target: Allow userspace to config cmd submission commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
imm: Add a module parameter for the transfer mode commit
scsi_debug: Add error injection for single device commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
12.4. Sound
- hda/realtek
amd: acp: Add acp6.3 pci legacy driver support commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
ASoC: mediatek: Update MT8195 machine driver commit, commit, commit
ASoC: hdac_hda: add HDA patch loader support commit
ASoC: mediatek: mt8188-mt6359: add rt5682s support commit
ASoC: mediatek: mt8186_mt6366_rt1019_rt5682s: add rt5650 support commit
amd: acp: Add sound support for a line of HUAWEI laptops commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Add PWM-DAC audio support for StarFive JH7110 RISC-V SoC commit, commit, commit
- SOF
scarlett2: Driver updates commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Support mute notifications for CS35L41 HDA commit, commit, commit, commit
ASoC: Adds support for TAS575x to the pcm512x driver commit
codecs: Add aw87390 amplifier driver commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
cs35l56: Update hibernate/wake sequences and enable hibernation commit, commit, commit, commit
cs35l56: Use PCI SSID to select specific firmware commit, commit, commit, commit
scarlett2: Add Focusrite Clarett 2Pre and 4Pre USB support commit
aloop: Add support for the non-interleaved access mode commit, commit
scarlett2: Add Focusrite Clarett+ 2Pre and 4Pre support commit
Add I2S support for the StarFive JH7110 SoC commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
mediatek: svs: add support for mt8188 commit, commit, commit, commit
Bluetooth: Add support for Intel Misty Peak - 8087:0038 commit
- SoC
Intel: machine driver update commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
intel: Add CS42L43 sdw machine driver support commit, commit, commit
Harden SSP boards and add TDM support commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Intel: boards: updates for 6.7 commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Intel: more machine driver updates for 6.7 commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
12.5. USB
Displayport Alternate Mode 2.1 Support commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
USB4 v2 asymmetric switching and more commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Handle reversed SBU orientation for FSA4480 commit, commit, commit
typec: intel_pmc_mux: enable sysfs usb role access commit
Add TPS25750 USB type-C PD controller support commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Link USB devices with their USB Type-C partner counterparts commit, commit
Multi-segment Event Ring support for XHCI commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
ChipIdea: add Nuvoton NPCM UDC support commit, commit, commit
dwc3: xilinx: add reset-controller support commit
dwc3: add Realtek DHC RTD SoC dwc3 glue layer driver commit, commit
Fix port mapping for ZTE MF290 modem commit
12.6. TTY layer and serial drivers
Provide port lock wrappers commit
8250: Changes of MOXA PCIe boards in 8250_pci.c commit, commit, commit, commit
stm32: add support for break control commit
exar: Add RS-485 support for Sealevel XR17V35X based cards commit, commit
Restrict access to TIOCLINUX commit
tty: serial: meson: Add a earlycon for the S4 SoC commit
Add drivers for the ESP32xx serial devices commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
12.7. Staging area
rtl8192u: Remove broken driver commit
resolver: move ad2s1210 out of staging commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
12.8. Media devices (V4L/DVB)
cros-ec-cec: Add Constitution to the match table commit
mgb4: Added support for T200 card variant commit
Support Nuvoton NPCM Video Capture/Encode Engine commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
i2c/hi556: add a new mode 1296x722 settings commit
qcom: camss: Add parameter passing to remove several outstanding bugs commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
rc: meson-s4: support RC_DRIVER_SCANCODE driver commit, commit, commit
CSI2RX support on J721E and AM62 commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
ov13b10: Add 1364x768 register settings commit
cros-ec-cec: Add support for multiple ports commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
platform: cros-ec: Add Boxy to the match table commit
12.9. Thermal
processor_thermal: Suport workload hint commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
processor_thermal: Power floor status commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
12.10. Watchdog
it87_wdt: add IT8613 ID commit
12.11. Voltage and current regulator
qcom_spmi: Add PM8909, PM8019 and PMA8084 commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Add ADI MAX77503 regulator driver and bindings commit
qcom-rpmh: Add regulator support for SC8380XP commit, commit
12.12. MULTIFUNCTION DEVICES (MFD)
Add support for XLCDC to sam9x7 SoC family. commit
Add support for poweroff via RK806 PMIC commit, commit, commit, commit
intel-lpss: Add Intel Lunar Lake-M PCI IDs commit
lpc_ich: Add a platform device for pinctrl Denverton commit, commit, commit, commit
12.13. MULTIMEDIA CARD (MMC), SECURE DIGITAL (SD) AND SDIO SUBSYSTEM
hsq: Improve random I/O write performance for 4k buffers commit
12.14. NFC SUBSYSTEM
12.15. PCI
Add Ampere Altra Attention Indicator extension driver commit
mgb4: Added Digiteq Automotive MGB4 driver commit
Add support for Xilinx XDMA Soft IP as Root Port. commit
dwc: rcar-gen4: Add R-Car Gen4 PCIe support commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
12.16. PIN CONTROL SUBSYSTEM
Add pinctrl driver support for Realtek DHC SoCs commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
12.17. MEMORY TECHNOLOGY DEVICES (MTD)
spinand: winbond: add support for serial NAND flash commit
spinand: add support for FORESEE F35SQA002G commit
spinand: Add support for XTX XT26xxxDxxxxx commit
Fix a series of wear leveling problems commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
12.18. POWER SUPPLY CLASS/SUBSYSTEM and DRIVERS
12.19. REAL TIME CLOCK (RTC)
12.20. HARDWARE MONITORING
nct6683: Add another customer ID for ASRock X670E Taichi commit
pmbus/mpq7932: Add a support for mpq2286 Power Management IC commit
Add driver for ltc2991 commit
12.21. I2C
stm32f7: Add atomic_xfer method to driver commit
i801: Add support for Intel Birch Stream SoC commit
12.22. IIO
Add support for the whole MCP39xx family commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Adding support for Microchip MCP3564 ADC family commit, commit
adc: ad7192: Add improvements and feature commit, commit, commit
accel: Add support for Kionix/ROHM KX132-1211 accelerometer commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Support ROHM BM1390 pressure sensor commit, commit, commit, commit
12.23. INPUT (KEYBOARD, MOUSE, JOYSTICK, TOUCHSCREEN) DRIVERS
cyttsp5: add handling for vddio regulator commit
resolver: move ad2s1210 out of staging commit, commit, commit, commit
HID: Support light color temperature and chromaticity commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
HID: apple: add Jamesdonkey and A3R to non-apple keyboards list commit
12.24. LED
12.25. HWMON
ina3221: Add selective summation support commit, commit, commit, commit
asus-ec-sensors: add ROG Crosshair X670E Gene. commit
adt7475: Add support for Imon readout on ADT7490 commit
Add POWER-Z driver commit
powerz: add support for ChargerLAB KM002C commit
12.26. REMOTE PROCESSOR (REMOTEPROC)
Add support for MT8195 SCP 2nd core commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
12.27. DMA GENERIC OFFLOAD ENGINE
Add Intel Analytics Accelerator (IAA) crypto compression driver commit
12.28. COMPUTE EXPRESS LINK (CXL)
Add support for RCH RAS error handling commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
12.29. COUNTER SUBSYSTEM
12.30. CPU FREQUENCY SCALING FRAMEWORK
qcom-nvmem: add support for IPQ8074 commit
qcom-nvmem: Enable cpufreq for ipq53xx commit
mediatek: Add support for MT8365 commit
Add basic cpufreq scaling for Qualcomm MSM8909 commit, commit, commit
12.31. COMMON CLK FRAMEWORK
qcom: sm8x50: enable RNG commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
omap: omap4-embt2ws: 32K clock for WLAN commit, commit, commit, commit
Add camera clock controller support for SM8550 commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
qcom: Add support for GCC and RPMHCC on SM4450 commit, commit, commit, commit
clk:imx: misc update/fix for i.MX8 commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Show active consumers of clocks in debugfs commit
clk: Allow phase adjustment from debugfs commit
qcom-nvmem: add support for ipq806x commit, commit, commit, commit
MSM8976 PLL,RPMPD and DTS changes commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
12.32. SYSTEM CONTROL & POWER/MANAGEMENT INTERFACE (SCPI/SCMI) Message Protocol drivers
12.33. IOMMU SUBSYSTEM
Userspace controlled attributes for hardware page tables (HWPT/iommu_domain) commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Nested translation support for HWPTs (part 1/3) commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
vt-d: debugfs: Enhancements to IOMMU debugfs commit, commit, commit
- IOMMUFD
IOMMUFD Dirty Tracking. AMD/ARM/Intel CPUs can now record if a DMA writes to a page in the IOPTEs within the IO page table. This can be used to generate a record of what memory is being dirtied by DMA activities during a VM migration process. A VMM like qemu will combine the IOMMU dirty bits with the CPU's dirty log to determine what memory to transfer commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
iommufd support allocating nested parent domain commit, commit, commit, commit
12.34. DRM COMPUTE ACCELERATORS
qaic: Extend uAPI to support undoing ATTACH_SLICE_BO commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
habana: 1 commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, 2 commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, 3 commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
12.35. Various
provide sysfs interface for cdx device resources commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
qcom: llcc: Add support for QDU1000/QRU1000 commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
qcom: socinfo: Add SM7150P ID commit
extcon: add Realtek DHC RTD SoC Type-C driver commit
xilinx: Added EDAC support for Xilinx DDR controller commit, commit
leds: class: Don't expose color sysfs entry commit
misc: onboard-hub: add support for Microchip USB5744 commit, commit
amplifiers: hmc425a: Add Support HMC540S 4-bit Attenuator commit, commit
eeprom: at24: add ST M24C32-D Additional Write lockable page support commit, commit
eeprom: at24: add ST M24C64-D Additional Write lockable page support commit, commit
hw_random: stm32: support STM32MP13x platforms commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
mei: enhance mei pxp recoverability commit, commit, commit, commit
mailbox: pcc: Support platform notification for type4 and shared interrupt commit, commit
cxl: Add support for QTG ID retrieval for CXL subsystem commit, commit, commit, commit
ptp: Support for multiple filtered timestamp event queue readers commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
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