Another week, another -rc.I'm still traveling - now in China - butat least I'm doing this rc Sunday _evening_ localtime rather than _morning_. And next rc I'll be back home andover rmy jetlag (knock wood) so everything should be backtothe traditional schedule.Anyway, it's early inthe rc series yet, but things look fairly normal. About a thirdofthe patch is drivers (drm and s390 stand out, but here's networking and block updates too, and misc noise all over).We also had someofthe core dma files move from drivers/base/dma-* (and lib/dma-*) to kernel/dma/*. We sometimes do code movement (and other "renaming" things) afterthe merge window simply because it tends to be less disruptive that way.Another 20% is under "tools" - mainly due tosome selftest updates for rseq, but there's some turbostat and perf tooling work too.We also had some noticeable filesystem updates, particularly to cifs. I'm going to point those out, because someof them probably shouldn't have been in rc2. They were "fixes"notinthe"regressions" sense, butinthe"missing features" sense.So please, people, the"fixes" during the rc series really should be things that are _regressions_. If it used to work, andit no longer does, then fixing thatis a good and proper fix. Or if something oopses or has a security implication, thenthe fix forthatis a real fix.But ifit's something that has never worked, even ifit"fixes"some behavior, thenit's new development, andthat should come in during the merge window. Just because you think it's a "fix" doesn't mean thatit really is one, at least inthe"during the rc series" sense.Anyway, withthat small rant out ofthe way, therestis mostly arch updates (x86, powerpc, arm64, mips), and core networking.Go forth and test. Things look fairly sane, it's not really all that scary.Shortlog appended for people who want to scan through what changed. Linus
As of today, NVK is a conformant Vulkan 1.4 implementation for NVIDIA Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta GPUs, and will be enabled by default starting with Mesa 25.1.
Kara Bembridge
May 1, 2025
LinuxToday is a trusted, contributor-driven news resource supporting all types of Linux users. Our thriving international community engages with us through social media and frequent content contributions aimed at solving problems ranging from personal computing to enterprise-level IT operations. LinuxToday serves as a home for a community that struggles to find comparable information elsewhere on the web.
Advertiser Disclosure: Some of the products that appear on
this site are from companies from which TechnologyAdvice
receives compensation. This compensation may impact how and
where products appear on this site including, for example,
the order in which they appear. TechnologyAdvice does not
include all companies or all types of products available in
the marketplace.