🐧 AI Is Now Being Used To Help Determine Patches For Backporting In The Linux Kernel - Phoronix
｢ Sasha Levin is employed by NVIDIA as a "Linux kernel hacker" and with patches for back-porting sent out by this Linux LTS co-maintainer there's beginning to be LLM-generated messages ｣
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AI-Help-Backporting-Linux-Patch
Avui fa 34 anys del neixement del #kernel de Linux. 👏 Linus Torvalds, el seu creador, el feia públic per correu electrònic:
https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/115088303518406584
Internet funciona principalment gràcies a Linux i el seu kernel.
Linus QOTD from a recent #Linux #kernel merge commit:
""I am on a mission to write out the more obscure TLAs in order to keep track of them.
Because while math tells us that there are only about 17k different combinations of three-letter acronyms using English letters (26^3), I am convinced that somehow Intel, AMD and ARM have together figured out new mathematics, and have at least a million different TLAs that they use.""
https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/c/20e0d8576484c60c8c0c9d5d6665541c37dee327#LinuxKernel
🐧Linus Torvalds Rejects RISC-V Changes For Linux 6.17: "Garbage" • Phoronix
｢ Linus Torvalds has used his authority to reject the RISC-V architecture changes for the Linux 6.17 kernel. The RISC-V updates won't land this cycle and will need to try again for v6.18 later in the year ｣
Linus QOTD from a recent #Linux #kernel merge commit:
""I am on a mission to write out the more obscure TLAs in order to keep track of them.
Because while math tells us that there are only about 17k different combinations of three-letter acronyms using English letters (26^3), I am convinced that somehow Intel, AMD and ARM have together figured out new mathematics, and have at least a million different TLAs that they use.""
https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/c/20e0d8576484c60c8c0c9d5d6665541c37dee327#LinuxKernel
🎯 Debian GNU/Hurd 2025 Released With Completed 64-bit Support, Rust Ported • Phoronix
Linus still did neither remove bcachefs from #Linux #kernel nor pulled the updates for 6.17 Kent submitted.
The latter meanwhile wrote a few mails to #LKML which in diplomatic phrases might be called "not really helpful", like this one https://lore.kernel.org/all/3ik3h6hfm4v2y3rtpjshk5y4wlm5n366overw2lp72qk5izizw@k6vxp22uwnwa/
It resulted in a few good replies from respected developers that are worth a read if you are followed the topic, among them from Josef Bacik (https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250809192156.GA1411279@fedora/ ), Matthew Wilcox (https://lore.kernel.org/all/aJfTPliez_WkwOF3@casper.infradead.org/ ), Sasha Levin (https://lore.kernel.org/all/aJgaiFS3aAEEd78W@lappy/ ) and Theodore Ts'o (https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250810022436.GA966107@mit.edu/ & https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250810055955.GA984814@mit.edu/).
Linus still did neither remove bcachefs from #Linux #kernel nor pulled the updates for 6.17 Kent submitted.
The latter meanwhile wrote a few mails to #LKML which in diplomatic phrases might be called "not really helpful", like this one https://lore.kernel.org/all/3ik3h6hfm4v2y3rtpjshk5y4wlm5n366overw2lp72qk5izizw@k6vxp22uwnwa/
It resulted in a few good replies from respected developers that are worth a read if you are followed the topic, among them from Josef Bacik (https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250809192156.GA1411279@fedora/ ), Matthew Wilcox (https://lore.kernel.org/all/aJfTPliez_WkwOF3@casper.infradead.org/ ), Sasha Levin (https://lore.kernel.org/all/aJgaiFS3aAEEd78W@lappy/ ) and Theodore Ts'o (https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250810022436.GA966107@mit.edu/ & https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250810055955.GA984814@mit.edu/).
✨🐧 Linux Kernel 6.16 Released, This Is What’s New
https://linuxiac.com/linux-kernel-6-16-released-this-is-whats-new/
Absolute shocker, kernel development is more about people and collaboration than code.
Absolute shocker, kernel development is more about people and collaboration than code.
Linux Delivering Driver Fix For 30 Year Old Creative SoundBlaster AWE32 ISA Sound Card - Phoronix
🐧Linux 6.17 Looks Like It Could Go Ahead And Make SMP Support Unconditional
｢ This rework reduces kernel complexity for maintenance and ongoing development. But for anyone running in a uniprocessor world, making SMP unconditional does lead to some slight overhead. But again the number of uniprocessor systems in 2025+ running a single core processor and upgrading to new mainline Linux kernel releases is especially tiny ｣
Stumbled on a regression in the Linux Longterm 6.12.y #kernel when I upgraded some machines yesterday.
#IPv6 UDP packets were no longer being fragmented as though IPV6_DONTFRAG was set when it wasn't which broke a #Librecast test.
The regression wasn't in the mainline kernel so I spent a happy morning bisecting kernels until I found that a patch had been backported in 6.12.31 without backporting two previous related patches.
Reported to the stable maintainers with a test program. Now I wait.
A space for Bonfire maintainers and contributors to communicate
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