Linux 5.16 changelog
1. Architectures
1.1. ARM
- Device Tree Sources
- Qualcomm
Gains support for Snapdragon 690 (aka SM6350) commit as well as SM7225 commit
Add device tree for Fairphone 4 commit
Add support for LG G Watch R commit
Add device tree for Sony Xperia 10 III commit
Add device tree for Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini Value Edition commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
msm8996: Add support for the Xiaomi MSM8996 platform, supporting the devices Mi 5 (gemini), Mi Note 2 (scorpio), Mi 5s (capricorn), Mi Mix (lithium), Mi 5s Plus (natrium) commit, and Xiaomi Mi 5 commit
msm8998: Introduce support for Sony Yoshino platform, supporting phones Sony Xperia XZ1 (codename Poplar), Sony Xperia XZ1 Compact (codename Lilac), and Sony Xperia XZ Premium (codename Maple) commit
Add support for MSM8998 F(x)tec Pro1 QX1000 commit
sc7280: Add Herobrine commit
Add sc7180-trogdor-homestar commit
Add IPQ8074 family ID-s commit
Implement SPM/SAW for MSM8998 and SDM6xx commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Add SMP support for MSM8226 commit
Add Sleep stats driver commit
- Microchip
Add the SAMA5D29 SoC in the SAMA5 family commit
Add basic support for Microchip LAN966 ARMv7 based SoC family of multiport gigabit AVB/TSN-capable ethernet switches commit
Add CalAmp LMU5000 board commit
Add Exegin Q5xR5 board commit
Add support for sama7g5 commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Samsung gains support for ExynosAutov9 SoC, an automotive version of their smartphone SoC commit, commit
Aspeed supports two additional server boards using their AST2600 as BMC: TYAN S7106 BMC machine commit, Inventec Transformers BMC commit
- Rockchip
Add RK3566 support commit
Add RK3399 ROCK Pi 4A+ board commit
Add RK3399 ROCK Pi 4B+ board commit
Add support for Firefly ROC-RK3328-PC commit
Add support for Firefly ROC-RK3399-PC-PLUS commit
Dumo, another variant of Scarlet, also known as the ASUS Chromebook Tablet CT100 commit
Add basic dts for Pine64 Quartz64-A commit
Two NAS boxes are added using the ARMv4 based Gemini platform: SSI 1328 commit and edimax NS2502 commit
Intel Arria SoC FPGA family: Add support for the Mercury+ AA1 module commit
- Marvell
Add the device tree for a Netgear GS110EMX switch featuring 8 Gigabit ports and 2 Multi-Gig ports (100M/1G/2.5G/5G/10G). An 88E6390X switch sits at its core connecting to two 88X3310P 10G PHYs. The control plane is handled by an 88F6811 Armada 381 SoC commit
Add Globalscale MOCHAbin 7040 development board commit
- NXP
STmicroelectronics: add STM32MP13 SoCs support. It adds machine support and device tree diversity to support the whole stm32mp13 family (STM32MP131/STM32MP133/STM32MP135) commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
- Renesas
- Broadcom
Colibri iMX6ULL 1GB commit
Toshiba adds one board for the Visconti family commit, commit
- Xilinx
- Amlogic
Add Netronix E70K02 board common file commit
Add device tree for the LX2160A on the NXP BlueBox3 board commit
- TI
tegra: Add Tegra186 ARI driver commit
amlogic: meson-gx-socinfo: Add S905Y2 ID for Radxa Zero commit
fsl: dpio: add Net DIM integration commit
fsl: dpio: add support for irq coalescing per software portal commit
imx: add i.MX8M blk-ctrl driver commit
mediatek: mmsys: Add reset controller support commit
samsung: exynos-chipid: Add Exynos850 support commit
samsung: exynos-chipid: add exynosautov9 SoC support commit
qcom: smd-rpm: Add QCM2290 compatible SoC support commit
qcom: smd-rpm: Add compatible for MSM8953 SoC commit
soc: aspeed: Add UART routing support commit
- Qualcomm
Add Coresight support for RB5 board commit
coresight: cpu-debug: Control default behavior via Kconfig commit
Support THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
- ARM64
Add support for the ARMv8.6 timer extensions commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Enable nitro enclaves commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
- KASAN support for "asymmetric" MTE, where tag faults are reported synchronously for loads (via an exception) and asynchronously for stores (via a register)
Enable MMU during kexec relocation in order to improve reboot performance commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
- KVM
1.2. X86
Add support for Vortex CPUs commit
Rewrite the retpoline rewrite logic commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Support Intel Advanced Matrix Extensions commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Add Raptor Lake to Intel family commit
Optimize out sigframe xfeatures when in init state. AMX state is ~8k. Signal frames can have space for this ~8k and each signal entry writes out all 8k even if it is zeros. Skip writing zeros for AMX to speed up signal delivery by about 4% overall when AMX is in its init state commit
Move register state into a container struct commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Change default to spec_store_bypass_disable=prctl spectre_v2_user=prctl commit
Fake iopl(3) CLI/STI usage commit
Optimize C3 entry on AMD CPUs commit
intel_idle: enable interrupts before C1 on Xeons commit
- platform
Add initial support for Surface Pro 8 commit
Add support for Surface Laptop Studio commit
Add support for Surface Laptop Studio commit
Add Intel ishtp eclite driver commit
Add driver for ACPI WMAA EC-based backlight control commit
Support for EC-connected GPIOs for identify LED/button on Barco P50 board commit
gigabyte-wmi: add support for B550 AORUS ELITE AX V2 commit
gigabyte-wmi: add support for B550I Aorus Pro AX commit
hp-wmi: add support for omen laptops commit
ideapad-laptop: Add platform support for Ideapad 5 Pro 16ACH6-82L5 commit
mlx-platform: Add initial support for new modular system commit
mlx-platform: Add support for multiply cooling devices commit
mlx-platform: Add support for new system SGN2410 commit
system76_acpi: Add battery charging thresholds commit
system76_acpi: Report temperature and fan speed commit
thinkpad_acpi: Add support for dual fan control commit
touchscreen_dmi: Add info for the Viglen Connect 10 tablet commit
sgx_vepc: implement a ioctl that performs EREMOVE on all pages mapped by a /dev/sgx_vepc file descriptor commit, commit
Add Hyper-V Isolation VM support commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
- KVM
Add Guest API & Guest Kernel support for SEV live migration commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Add AMD SEV and SEV-ES intra host migration support commit, commit, commit, commit
Expose AMD Zen3 Predictive Store Forwarding disable commit
Add idempotent controls for migrating system counter state commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
SVM's optional features for nesting commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Make NX huge page recovery period configurable commit
1.3. RISCV
Add support for time namespaces commit
Add BPF exception tables commit
Add KVM support commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
1.4. S390
ap: new module option ap.useirq commit
ftrace: add HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS support commit
ptrace: add function argument access API commit
DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_DIRECT_CALL support commit, commit, commit, commit
- Implement livepatch on PPC32
Add support for BEAR enhancement facility commit
Allow multiple processes to access /dev/hwc commit
KVM: Add a routine for setting userspace CPU state commit
Add support for ftrace direct multi sample commit
1.5. MIPS
Add CPU option reporting commit
Remove NETLOGIC support commit
A new eBPF JIT implementation for MIPS commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
1.6. PARISC
Add support for the TOC switches found on most PA-RISC machines commit, commit, commit, commit
Add KFENCE support commit
1.7. POWERPC
perf: Add support to expose instruction and data address registers as part of extended regs commit
pseries/dma: Add support for 2M IOMMU page size commit
Add support for out-of-line static calls commit
2. Drivers
2.1. Graphics
Allow empty drm leases. This can be used to create a separate DRM file description, thus creating a new GEM handle namespace commit
- AMD
Initial DP 2.0 support commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Initial USB4 DP tunnelling support commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Cyan Skillfish display support commit
Support B0&B1 external revision id for yellow carp commit
New debugfs interface for MMIO registers commit
Add debugfs access to the IP discovery table commit
- Intel
Introduce Intel PXP commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Add a new parallel submission uAPI which allows more than 1 BB to be submitted in an execbuf IOCTL 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 GuC submission by default on DG1 commit, commit, commit, commit
Update ADL-S PCI IDs commit
DG1: Add new PCI id commit
Enable mipi dsi support commit
Add pci ids and uapi for DG1 commit
Add support for panels with VESA backlights with PWM enable/disable commit
DP per-lane drive settings prep work commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Extend the async flip VT-d w/a to skl/bxt commit
Use Transparent Hugepages when IOMMU is enabled commit
- msm
- stm
- v3d
- gud
- virtio
- panel
Implement generic "edp-panel"s probed by EDID commit
Add support for Sharp LS060T1SX01 panel commit
boe-tv101wum-nl6: Support enabling a 3.3V rail commit
panel-simple: add LOGIC Technologies LTTD800480070-L2RT panel commit
s6d27a1: Add driver for Samsung S6D27A1 display panel commit
support for BOE and INX video mode panel commit
- bochs
Add Bochs PCI ID for Simics model commit
Add R10 and R12 FourCC commit
rcar-du: Add r8a779a0 device support commit
zte: remove obsolete DRM Support for ZTE SoCs commit
fbdev: Garbage collect fbdev scrolling acceleration commit
media: i.MX6: Support 16-bit BT.1120 video input commit
2.2. Power Management
ACPICA: Add support for MADT online enabled bit commit
PM / wakeirq: support enabling wake-up irq after runtime_suspend called commit, commit, commit
2.3. Storage
nvme: add nvme map queues support (for qla2xxx) commit, commit
nvme-multipath: enable polled I/O commit
nvme: support unique discovery controller commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
nvme: Discovery controller discovery support commit, commit, commit
nvme: generate uevent once a multipath namespace is operational again commit
Add AHCI support for ASM1062+JBM575 cards commit
ata: ahci: Add Green Sardine vendor ID as board_ahci_mobile commit
Initial support for multi-actuator HDDs commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
- scsi
2.4. Drivers in the Staging area
PCI: mt7621: Add MediaTek MT7621 PCIe host controller driver commit
media: cedrus: hevc: Add support for scaling lists commit
media: hantro: Add scaling lists feature commit
media: rkvdec: Support dynamic resolution changes commit
Remove Netlogic XLP network driver commit
2.5. Networking
- Bluetooth
btintel: support link statistics telemetry events commit
btrtl: Add support for MSFT extension to rtl8821c devices commit
btrtl: enable Realtek 8822C/8852A to support AOSP extension commit
btusb: Add another Bluetooth part for Realtek 8852AE commit
btusb: Add protocol for MediaTek bluetooth devices(MT7922) commit
btusb: Add support for IMC Networks Mediatek Chip(MT7921) commit
btusb: Add support for TP-Link UB500 Adapter commit
btusb: Add the new support ID for Realtek RTL8852A commit
btusb: Support public address configuration for MediaTek Chip commit
hci_vhci: Add support for offload codecs over SCO commit
- RDMA
RDMA/efa: EFA dmabuf memory regions commit
RDMA/efa: CQ notifications commit
amt: add initial driver for Automatic Multicast Tunneling (AMT) commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
- ath11k
ath9k: add option to reset the wifi chip via debugfs commit
atlantic: Add missing DIDs and fix 115c commit
ax88796c: ASIX AX88796C SPI Ethernet Adapter Driver commit
bcmgenet: add support for ethtool flow control commit
- bnxt_en
can: peak_usb: CANFD: store 64-bits hw timestamps commit
dpaa2-eth: add support for IRQ coalescing commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
dpaa2-mac: add support for more ethtool 10G link modes commit
- dsa
microchip: implement multi-bridge support commit
Multiple improvement for qca8337 switch commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
realtek-smi: add rtl8365mb subdriver for RTL8365MB-VC commit
rtl8366rb: Support bridge offloading commit
rtl8366rb: Use core filtering tracking commit
enetc: add support for software TSO commit
- hns3
PF support get MAC address space assigned by firmware commit, commit
Add debugfs support for interrupt coalesce commit
debugfs add support dumping page pool info commit
Add support pause/pfc durations for mac statistics commit
Add update ethtool advertised link modes for FIBRE port when autoneg off commit
device specifications add number of mac statistics commit
- ice
Introduce initial support for Application Device Queues(ADQ) commit, commit, commit
Add support for QoS DSCP allowing for DSCP to TC mapping via APP TLVs commit
Extend the driver implementation to support PTP pins on E810-T and derivative devices commit, commit, commit, commit
Implement support for ndo_set_vf_rate allowing for min_tx_rate and max_tx_rate to be set for a VF commit
Marcin sets netdev min and max MTU values on port representors to allow for MTU changes over default values commit
Add support for adding/removing advanced switch filters commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Add switchdev driver model commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Add support for eswitch drop and redirect filters from and to tunnel devices. From meaning from uplink to VF and to means from VF to uplink commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
XDP_TX improvements commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
igc: Add new device ID commit
- ionic
- ionic
- iwlwifi
lantiq: add support for jumbo frames commit
mac80211_hwsim: enable 6GHz channels commit
- macb
- mana
marvell: prestera: add firmware v4.0 support commit
mellanox: mlxreg-lc: Add initial support for Nvidia line card devices commit
microchip: lan743x: add support for PTP pulse width (duty cycle) commit
- mlx4
- mlx5
Add HW GRO support commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Add the support for new lag mode based on packet hash commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Bridge, support replacing existing FDB entry commit
Add SFs support commit
Increase supported num of actions to 32 commit
Support HW offload of TC rules involving OVS internal port device type as the filter device or the destination device commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
- Memory optimizations
Let user configure event_eq_size param commit
Let user configure io_eq_size param commit
Let user configure max_macs param commit
- mlx5e
mlx5i: Enable Rx steering for IPoIB via ethtool commit
- mlxsw
Add support for IP-in-IP with IPv6 underlay commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
ethtool: Add ability to control transceiver modules' power mode commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Show per-band ECN-marked counter on qdisc commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Multi-level qdisc offload commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Support multiple RIF MAC prefixes commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
- mscc
- mt76
Add MT7921 SDIO support commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Introduce 6GHz support to mt7921 driver commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Add support for setting mcast rate commit
mt7915: add LED support commit
mt7915: add WA firmware log support commit
mt7915: add debugfs knobs for MCU utilization commit
mt7915: add ethtool stats support commit
mt7915: add mib counters to ethtool stats commit
mt7915: add some per-station tx stats to ethtool commit
mt7915: add twt_stats knob in debugfs commit
mt7915: add tx mu/su counters to mib commit
mt7915: add tx stats gathered from tx-status callbacks commit
Enable HE UL MU-MIMO commit
mt7915: enable configured beacon tx rate commit
mt7915: introduce bss coloring support commit
mt7915: introduce mt76 debugfs sub-dir for ext-phy commit
Introduce individual TWT support in AP mode commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
mt7921: Add mt7922 support commit
mt7921: add MU EDCA cmd support commit
ethtool stats features commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
mt7921: enable aspm by default commit
mt7921: introduce testmode support commit
mvneta: populate supported_interfaces member commit
netdevsim: add ability to change channel count commit
nfp: flower: Allow ipv6gretap interface for offloading commit
- octeontx2
phy: Add qca8081 ethernet phy driver commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
phy: at803x: add QCA9561 support commit
phy: at803x: add resume/suspend function to qca83xx phy commit
phy: at803x: add support for qca 8327 A variant internal phy commit
phy: at803x: add support for qca 8327 internal phy commit
phy: broadcom: Add IDDQ-SR mode commit
phy: broadcom: Enable 10BaseT DAC early wake commit
phy: marvell10g: add downshift tunable support commit
phy: micrel: Add support for LAN8804 PHY commit
phy: realtek: add support for RTL8365MB-VC internal PHYs commit
r8169: Add device 10ec:8162 to driver r8169 commit
r8169: remove support for chip version RTL_GIGA_MAC_VER_27 commit
ravb: Add support to retrieve stats for GbEthernet commit
ravb: Add Gigabit Ethernet driver support commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
rtw88: support adaptivity for ETSI/JP DFS region commit
rtw88: 8821c: support RFE type4 wifi NIC commit
rtw89: add Realtek 802.11ax driver commit
virtio_net: introduce TX timeout watchdog commit
- wcn36xx
wwan: iosm: brings-in support for M.2 7560 Device firmware flashing & coredump collection using devlink commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
2.6. Audio
firewire-motu: add ioctl commands to retrieve information in messages delivered by isoc packet commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
firewire-motu: add support for MOTU Traveler mk3 commit
firewire-motu: add support for MOTU Track 16 commit
firewire-motu: export meter information to userspace as float value commit
Support for non-contiguous and non-coherent page allocations commit, commit, commit
usb-audio: Improved lowlatency playback support commit
usb-audio: Add support for the Pioneer DJM 750MK2 Mixer/Soundcard commit
- hda:
soundwire: qcom: add debugfs entry for soundwire register dump commit
- ASoC
Add Audio Graph Card2 support commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Ietel: Add Dell ADL products support commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Add Yellow Carp platform ASoC driver commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Add common modules support for ACP hw block commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
qcom: sm8250: add support for TX and RX Macro dais commit, commit
tegra: Restore AC97 support commit
nau8825: add set_jack coponment support commit
qcom: Add AudioReach support commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Intel: add machine driver for SOF+ES8336 commit
Intel: glk_rt5682_max98357a: support ALC5682I-VS codec commit
Intel: sof_rt5682: Add support for max98360a speaker amp commit
SOF: Add support for on demand pipeline setup/destroy commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
SOF: core: allow module parameter to override dma trace Kconfig commit
SOF: imx8m: add SAI1 info commit
codecs: tfa989x: Add support for tfa9897 RCV bit commit
cs35l41: CS35L41 Boosted Smart Amplifier commit
cs42l42: Implement Manual Type detection as fallback commit
dmaengine: Introduce module option prealloc_buffer_size_kbytes commit
es8316: add support for ESSX8336 ACPI _HID commit
fsl_spdif: Add support for i.MX8ULP commit
fsl_spdif: implement bypass mode from in to out commit
max98520: add max98520 audio amplifier driver commit
mediatek: mt8195: add machine driver with mt6359, rt1011 and rt5682 commit
nau8821: new driver commit
rockchip: add support for i2s-tdm controller commit
rt5682s: Add driver for ALC5682I-VS codec commit
Extend AHUB audio support for Tegra210 and later commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
2.7. Tablets, touch screens, keyboards, mouses
cypress-sf: add Cypress StreetFighter touchkey driver commit
goodix: add support for controllers without flash commit
tm2-touchkey: allow changing keycodes from userspace commit
ili210x: add ili251x firmware update support commit
ili210x: export ili251x version details via sysfs commit
cap11xx: add support for cap1206 commit
- HID
nintendo: Nintendo Joy-Con and Pro Controller support commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Add support for side buttons of Xiaomi Mi Dual Mode Wireless Mouse Silent commit
apple: Add support for the 2021 Magic Keyboard commit
playstation: expose DualSense lightbar through a multi-color LED commit
u2fzero: Support NitroKey U2F revision of the device commit
playstation: expose DualSense player LEDs through LED class commit
surface-hid: Allow driver matching for target ID 1 devices commit
wacom: Add new Intuos BT (CTL-4100WL/CTL-6100WL) device IDs commit
2.8. TV tuners, webcams, video capturers
Add V4L2_PIX_FMT_NV12_4L4 pixel format commit, commit, commit
Add ADV7610 support for adv7604 driver commit
Add sensor driver support for the ov13b10 camera commit
allegro: Add support for the Encoder Buffer commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
aspeed: add debugfs commit
gspca/sn9c20x: Add ability to control built-in webcam LEDs commit
hevc: Add scaling matrix control commit
i2c: add driver for the SK Hynix Hi-846 8M pixel camera commit
ir_toy: allow tx carrier to be set commit
mtk-vcodec: support for MT8183 decoder commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
rcar-vin: Add r8a779a0 support commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
rcar-csi2: Add r8a779a0 support commit
rcar-vin: add G/S_PARM ioctls commit
rcar-vin: add GREY format commit
rkisp1 support for px30 commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
saa7134: Add support for Leadtek WinFast HDTV200 H commit
uvcvideo: Add support for V4L2_CTRL_TYPE_CTRL_CLASS commit
v4l2-ctrls: Add V4L2_CID_NOTIFY_GAINS control commit. commit
venus: core: Add sdm660 DT compatible and resource struct commit
videobuf2: support new noncontiguous DMA API commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
vimc: Enable set resolution at the scaler src pad commit
vivid: add module option to set request support mode commit
vsp1: Add support for the V3U VSPD commit
sir_ir: remove broken driver commit
2.9. Universal Serial Bus
qmi_wwan: add Telit 0x1070 composition commit
lan78xx: add Allied Telesis AT29M2-AF commit
gadget: storage: add support for media larger than 2T commit
host: ehci-atmel: Add support for HSIC phy commit
phy: tegra: Support OTG mode programming commit
serial: option: add Fibocom FM101-GL variants commit
serial: option: add Telit LE910S1 0x9200 composition commit
typec: tipd: Add support for Apple CD321X commit
2.10. Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI)
Add sc7280 support commit
Add Ingenic JZ47xx driver commit
bcm-qspi: Add mspi spcr3 32/64-bits xfer mode commit
bcm-qspi: add support for 3-wire mode for half duplex transfer commit
cadence-quadspi: Add OSPI support for Xilinx Versal SoC commit
cadence-quadspi: Add Xilinx Versal external DMA support commit
cadence: add support for Cadence XSPI controller commit
2.11. Watchdog
meson_gxbb_wdt: add timeout parameter commit
meson_gxbb_wdt: add nowayout parameter commit
sunxi_wdt: Add support for D1 commit
remove dead iop watchdog timer driver commit
2.12. Voltage, current regulators, power capping, power supply
2.13. Real Time Clock (RTC)
Add a new ioctl interface allowing to get and set extended parameters on RTCs. While its main goal is to support backup switch mode, it also intends to fix a long time issue. Until now, it was not possible to know what features were supported by an RTC before actually trying to make use of it and see that succeed or fail. In order to make tests more reliable and allow userspace to take the correct decision, the features are now exposed commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Add support for the MSTAR MSC313 RTC commit
pcf8523: add BSM support commit
tps80031: Remove driver commit
2.14. Pin Controllers (pinctrl)
Add pinctrl/GPIO driver for Apple SoCs commit
mediatek: add support for MT7986 SoC commit
qcom: Add QCM2290 pinctrl driver commit
qcom: Add SM6350 pinctrl driver commit
qcom: spmi-mpp: add support for hierarchical IRQ chip commit
qcom: ssbi-mpp: add support for hierarchical IRQ chip commit
samsung: support ExynosAutov9 SoC pinctrl commit
tegra: Add pinmux support for Tegra194 commit
uniphier: Add UniPhier NX1 pinctrl driver commit
2.15. Multi Media Card (MMC)
sdhci-of-arasan: Add intel Thunder Bay SOC support to the arasan eMMC driver commit
mtk-sd: Add HS400 online tuning support commit
sdhci-esdhc-imx: add NXP S32G2 support commit
2.16. Memory Technology Devices (MTD)
rawnand: hynix: Add support for H27UCG8T2ETR-BC MLC NAND commit
block2mtd: add support for an optional custom MTD label commit
2.17. Industrial I/O (iio)
accel: Add driver support for ADXL313 commit
accel: Add driver support for ADXL355 commit
accel: adxl355: Add triggered buffer support commit
adc: ad7949: add vref selection support commit
Add support for ast2600 ADC commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
adc: at91-sama5d2_adc: add support for sama7g5 commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
adc: stm32-adc: add internal channels support commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
chemical: Add Senseair Sunrise 006-0-007 driver commit
chemical: Add support for Sensirion SCD4x CO2 sensor commit
frequency: adrf6780: add support for ADRF6780 commit
imx8qxp-adc: Add driver support for NXP IMX8QXP ADC commit
light: ltr501: Add rudimentary regulator support commit
magnetometer: ak8975: add AK09116 support commit
temperature: Add MAX31865 RTD Support commit
2.18. Multi Function Devices (MFD)
da9063: Add support for latest EA silicon revision commit
intel-lpss: Add support for MacBookPro16,2 ICL-N UART commit
rk808: Add support for power off on RK817 commit
sprd: Add support for SC2730 PMIC commit
ti_am335x_tscadc: Add ADC1/magnetic reader support commit
tps80031: Remove driver commit
2.19. Inter-Integrated Circuit (I2C + I3C)
Add Apple M1 support to PASemi i2c driver commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
i801: Add support for Intel Ice Lake PCH-N commit
virtio: Add support for zero-length requests commit
2.20. Hardware monitoring (hwmon)
Add Maxim MAX6620 hardware monitoring driver commit
dell-smm: Add support for fanX_min, fanX_max and fanX_target commit
lm90: Add basic support for TI TMP461 commit
mlxreg-fan: Add support for multiply PWM and extend the maximum number of tachometers commit, commit, commit
nct6683: Add another customer ID for NCT6683D sensor chip on some ASRock boards commit
nct6775: Add additional ASUS motherboards commit
nct6775: Support access via Asus WMI commit
nct6775: add Pro WS X570-ACE commit
nct6775: add ProArt X570-CREATOR WIFI commit
nct7802: Make temperature/voltage sensors configurable commit
occ: Provide the SBEFIFO FFDC in binary sysfs commit
pmbus/ibm-cffps: Add mfg_id debugfs entry commit
pmbus/lm25066: Support configurable sense resistor values commit
tmp401: Drop support for TMP461 commit
2.21. General Purpose I/O (gpio)
tegra186: Support multiple interrupts per bank commit
modepin: Add driver support for modepin GPIO controller commit
virtio: Add IRQ support commit
2.22. Leds
2.23. DMA engines
qcom: bam_dma: Add "powered remotely" mode commit
2.24. Cryptography hardware acceleration
hisilicon/qm: support the userspace task resetting commit
keembay-ocs-ecc: Add Keem Bay OCS ECC Driver commit
2.25. PCI
Add support for Apple M1 commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
Add support for Hikey 970 PCIe commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
qcom-ep: Add Qualcomm PCIe Endpoint controller driver commit
2.26. FRU Support Interface (FSI)
sbefifo: Add sysfs file indicating a timeout error commit
2.27. Clock
imx: Add clock driver for imx8ulp commit
imx: Add the pcc reset controller support on imx8ulp commit
qcom: Add Global Clock Controller driver for QCM2290 commit
qcom: Add lpass clock controller driver for SC7280 commit
qcom: camcc: Add camera clock controller driver for SC7280 commit
qcom: gcc-msm8994: Add proper msm8992 support commit
qcom: gdsc: enable optional power domain support commit
qcom: smd-rpm: Add QCM2290 RPM clock support commit
renesas: r8a779a0: Add RPC support commit
renesas: rzg2l: Add SDHI clk mux support commit
samsung: Introduce Exynos850 clock driver commit
clk: samsung: add common support for CPU clocks commit
uniphier: Add NX1 clock support commit
ux500: Add driver for the reset portions of PRCC commit
2.28. PHY ("physical layer" framework)
HiSilicon: Add driver for Kirin 970 PCIe PHY commit
cadence-torrent: Add support to output received reference clock commit
qcom-qmp: Add QCM2290 USB3 PHY support commit
stm32: add phy tuning support commit
2.29. Various
Support running driver's probe for a device powered off commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
auxdisplay: ht16k33: Add LED support commit
auxdisplay: ht16k33: Add support for segment displays commit
auxdisplay: linedisp: Add support for changing scroll rate commit
bus/fsl-mc: Add generic implementation for open/reset/close commands commit
counter: Implement signalZ_action_component_id sysfs attribute commit
Introduce the Counter character device interface commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
eni_vdpa: add vDPA driver for Alibaba ENI commit
extcon: usbc-tusb320: Add support for TUSB320L commit
extcon: usbc-tusb320: Add support for mode setting and reset commit
firmware: arm_ffa: Add support for MEM_LEND commit
firmware: cs_dsp: add driver to support firmware loading on Cirrus Logic DSPs commit
firmware: qcom_scm: Add compatible for MSM8953 SoC commit
firmware: xilinx: Add OSPI Mux selection support commit
- habanalabs
interconnect: merge AP-owned support into icc-rpm commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
- iommu
ipmi: Add support for access through an IPMB bus commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
irqchip/mchp-eic: Add support for the Microchip EIC commit
- mailbox
memory: MT8195 SMI support commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
mux: add support for delay after muxing commit
Add FF-A support in OP-TEE driver commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
timecard updates for v13 firmware commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
ptp: ptp_clockmatrix: Add support for FW 5.2 (8A34005) commit
ptp: ptp_clockmatrix: Add support for pll_mode=0 and manual ref switch of WF and WP commit
remoteproc: imx_dsp_rproc: Add remoteproc driver for DSP on i.MX commit
Mediatek MT8195 SCP support commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
remoteproc: meson-mx-ao-arc: Add a driver for the AO ARC remote procesor commit
Add Modem support on SC7280 SoCs commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
reset: mchp: sparx5: Extend support for lan966x commit
reset: uniphier: Add NX1 reset support commit
cxl: Enable CXL Topology commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit
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