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🐧 Linux Seeing First LED Driver Written In Rust / Phoronix
｢ Open-source developer Markus Probst posted the patch series on Wednesday for the first LED driver written in Rust. This isn't a sample driver but rather a real driver targeting the atmega1608 microcontroller. The atmega1608 microcontroller is used by Synology NAS devices for controlling the LEDs on the device ｣
🐧 Linux 6.17 Released: Intel Panther Lake Xe3 Graphics Ready, New Optimizations - Phoronix
｢ As expected, Linus Torvalds just released the Linux 6.17 kernel on-schedule as the kernel version powering Ubuntu 25.10, Fedora 43, and other upcoming Linux distribution releases and rolling releases ｣
🙄 GNU Linux-libre 6.17 Deblobs The New Intel IPU7 Driver, Adjusts Existing Drivers / Phoronix
｢ Building off yesterday's release of Linux 6.17, the GNU Linux-libre 6.17-gnu kernel is now available for this downstream kernel variant that strips away support for loading non-free microcode and other elements not aligned with the Free Software Foundation principles ｣
🐧 RISC-V With Linux 6.18 Brings Support For MIPS Vendor Extensions / Phoronix
｢ Back during the Linux 6.17 merge window the RISC-V changes were rejected as "garbage" for being submitted too late in the merge window and with some code choices that upset Linus Torvalds. With lessons learned, the RISC-V changes for Linux 6.18 were submitted today during the first official day of this new kernel cycle ｣
Oh no. It's true: The mouse cursor image on Wayland is delayed by one frame. 😭
Proof: https://mort.coffee/home/wayland-input-latency/
Great explaination by @lina: https://lobste.rs/s/oxtwre/hard_numbers_wayland_vs_x11_input_latency#c_edq7tn
A failed attempt to fix this in @gnome: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/4249
It sounds like there is going to be a new kernel API that would allow updating the cursor independently and therefore earlier, but I couldn't find anything about that.
There is now a dedicated drm-rust #Linux tree for Rust DRM #kernel drivers and infrastructure:
https://lore.kernel.org/dri-devel/20250901202850.208116-1-dakr@kernel.org/t/#u
"[…] Multiple DRM Rust drivers (e.g. nova-core, nova-drm, Tyr, rvkms) are in development, with at least Nova and (soon) Tyr already upstream. Having a shared tree will ease and accelerate development, since all drivers can consume new infrastructure in the same release cycle. […]""
https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/news/2025-08-10-debian_gnu_hurd_2025.html
Details: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2025-08/msg00008.html
- completed 64 bit support
- all disk drivers running in userland (⇒ you can live-debug a disk driver with gdb)
- Rust support
- working disk and CD-ROM via USB (this actually is a big deal)
- SMP (multiprocessing) is finally working well
- custom keyboard layouts on the console via xkb
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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
https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/news/2025-08-10-debian_gnu_hurd_2025.html
Details: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2025-08/msg00008.html
- completed 64 bit support
- all disk drivers running in userland (⇒ you can live-debug a disk driver with gdb)
- Rust support
- working disk and CD-ROM via USB (this actually is a big deal)
- SMP (multiprocessing) is finally working well
- custom keyboard layouts on the console via xkb
❤️ 🐃
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/
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