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Linux Kernel Podcast for 2017/04/04

Linus Torvalds announces Linux 4.11-rc5, Donald Drumpf drains the maintainer swamp in April, Intel FPGA Device Drivers, FPU state cacheing, /dev/mem access crashing machines, and assorted ongoing development

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Linux Kernel Podcast for 2017/03/28

Linus Torvalds announces Linux 4.11-rc4, early debug with USB3 earlycon, upcoming support for USB-C in 4.12, and ongoing development including various work on boot time speed ups, logging, futexes, and IOMMUs

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Linux Kernel Podcast for 2017/03/21

Linus Torvalds announces Linux 4.11-rc3, this week’s exciting installment of “5-level paging weekly”, the 2038 doomsday compliance “statx” systemcall, and heterogenous memory management. Also a summary of all ongoing active kernel…

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Kernel Podcast for 20170313

Linus Torvalds announces Linux 4.11-rc2 (including pre-enablement for Intel 5-level paging), VMA based swap readahead, and ongoing development ahead of the next cycle.

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Kernel Podcast for 20170306

Linus Torvalds announces Linux 4.11-rc1, rants about folks not correctly leveraging linux-next, the remainder of this cycle’s merge window pulls, and announcements concerning end of life for some features.

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Kernel Podcast for 20170227

The merge window for kernel 4.11 is open and patches are flying into Linus’s inbox, fixing NUMA node determination at runtime, Virtual Machine Aware Caches, Advisory Memory Allocations, and a non-fixed TASK_SIZE to bring excitement to…

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Kernel Podcast for 20170220

In this week’s edition: Linus Torvalds announces Linux 4.10, Alan Tull updates his FPGA manager framework, and Intel’s latest 5-level paging patch series is posted for review. We will have this, and a summary of ongoing development in the first of…

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2009/06/10 Linux Kernel Podcast

Linux 2.6.30 updates, lockless ring buffer, poisoned hardware, platform device architectural data, and virtual swap readahead

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