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Semi-weekly summary of Linux Kernel Development

Jon Masters


    • Jul 7, 2017 LATEST EPISODE
    • infrequent NEW EPISODES
    • 11m AVG DURATION
    • 44 EPISODES


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    Kernel Podcast for 2017/07/07

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 7, 2017 35:30


    Linux 4.12 final is released, the 4.13 merge window opens, and various assorted ongoing kernel development is described in detail

    Kernel Podcast for 2017/05/14

    Play Episode Listen Later May 14, 2017 62:24


    Linux 4.12-rc1 (including a full summary of the 4.12 merge window), Linux 4.11 final is released, saving TLB flushes, various ongoing development, and a bunch of announcements

    Kernel Podcast for 2017/04/27

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 27, 2017 22:58


    Linux 4.11-rc8, updating kernel.org cross compilers, Intel 5-level paging, v3 namespaced file capabilities, and ongoing development

    Kernel Podcast for 2017/04/19

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 20, 2017 21:57


    Linus Torvalds announces Linux 4.11-rc7, a kernel security update bonanza, the end of Kconfig maintenance, automatic NUMA balancing, movable memory, a bug in synchronize_rcu_tasks, and ongoing development. The Linux 4.12 merge window should open before next week.

    Kernel Podcast for 2017/04/11

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 11, 2017 18:03


    Linus Torvalds announces Linux 4.11-rc6, Intel Memory Bandwidth Allocation (MBA), Coherent Device Memory (CDM), Paravirtualized Remote TLB Flushing,kernel lockdown, the latest on Intel 5-level paging, and other assorted ongoing development activities

    Linux Kernel Podcast for 2017/04/04

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 5, 2017 26:38


    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

    Linux Kernel Podcast for 2017/03/28

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 28, 2017 22:16


    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

    Linux Kernel Podcast for 2017/03/21

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 21, 2017 22:52


    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 development toward 4.12 onwards

    Kernel Podcast for 20170313

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 14, 2017 17:47


    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.

    Kernel Podcast for 20170306

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 5, 2017 16:21


    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.

    Kernel Podcast for 20170227

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 28, 2017 18:54


    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 your life.

    Kernel Podcast for 20170220

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 20, 2017 7:28


    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 the newly revived Linux Kernel Podcast.

    2009/06/14 Linux Kernel Podcast

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 15, 2009 12:02


    2.6.31 merge window, shipping userspace (sub)packages,large kernel images, and matching disks to boot order

    2009/06/10 Linux Kernel Podcast

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 12, 2009 15:49


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

    2009/06/09 Linux Kernel Podcast

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 11, 2009 7:37


    Linux 2.6.30, performance overhead, IO scheduler based IO controller, VIA Centaur CPUs, and procfs documentation

    2009/06/08 Linux Kernel Podcast

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 9, 2009 9:53


    Fair Anticipatory Scheduling, making mapped executable pages the first class citizen, zone_reclaim() behavorial expectations, MCE ring buffer, RTL8169 related crashes, and a few good hackers

    2009/06/07 Linux Kernel Podcast

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 8, 2009 17:50


    Mild ext4 filesystem corruption, private anonymous mmaps, performance overhead, introducing the initdev patchset, IDE fixes, Performance Counters, Introducing this_cpu_xx operations, converting ftrace syscalls to TRACE_EVENT, the IEEE 802.15.4 stack, DebugFS documentation, CPU hard limits, CONFIG_VFAT_NO_CREATE_WITH_LONGNAMES, and benchmarking the Per-bdi writeback flusher threads patchset

    2009/06/04 Linux Kernel Podcast

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 5, 2009 10:27


    The Linux Driver Project, Remapping NULL pointers, MCE ring buffer, paravirt operations overhead, Super-H, System 390, Console screen blanking, and kernels listed on kernel.org

    2009/06/03 Linux Kernel Podcast

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 3, 2009 12:15


    Xen, zero page pointers, detailed stack information,  filesystem notification of errors, printk halt delay, and hardware breakpoints

    2009/06/02 Linux Kernel Podcast

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 3, 2009 10:32


    Xen, OOM, DebugFS, Dynamic ftrace support for s390, kprobe-based event tracing, and resetting the TSC

    2009/06/01 Linux Kernel Podcast

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 1, 2009 6:52


    The spirit of the GPL, hacking at mm_struct, retrying core dumps, security, and a generic hashlist implementation

    2009/05/31 Linux Kernel Podcast

    Play Episode Listen Later May 31, 2009 11:07


    Xen, page allocator sanitization, poisonous hardware, magic sysrq, System Management Interrupts, and Intel Atom CPU support

    2009/05/28 Linux Kernel Podcast

    Play Episode Listen Later May 29, 2009 4:32


    ARM devicetree support, ftrace, per-BDI flusher threads, and trusted boot technology

    2009/05/27 Linux Kernel Podcast

    Play Episode Listen Later May 28, 2009 5:01


    Kernel based checkpoint and restart, per-BDI writeback flusher threads, Microblaze MMU support, ARM devicetree support, and Xen

    2009/05/26 Linux Kernel Podcast

    Play Episode Listen Later May 27, 2009 4:22


    Tracepoints, modules, Machine Check Exceptions, and IO scheduling

    2009/05/25 US Memorial Day Weekend Linux Kernel Podcast

    Play Episode Listen Later May 27, 2009 7:57


    dynamic performance counters, kprobe-based event tracing, OOM killer, page sanitization, 16-bit stack corruption on NMI, DO_ONCE, CPU hotplug, and a new kernel release

    2009/05/21 Linux Kernel Podcast

    Play Episode Listen Later May 22, 2009 5:07


    Today's issue was delayed due to your author taking a day off ahead of the US Memorial Weekend Holiday. Since I'll be in Ottawa, Canada over the weekend, the weekend update will likely be delayed until Monday evening.In today's issue: putting struct inode on a diet, sparse interrupt allocation, union directories, zone reclaim defaults, and firewire interface naming conventions.

    2009/05/20 Linux Kernel Podcast

    Play Episode Listen Later May 21, 2009 4:08


    Sysfs, Dynamic percpu, perf. counters, KVM, and Documentation

    2009/05/19 Linux Kernel Podcast

    Play Episode Listen Later May 20, 2009 3:54


    Xen, tracepoints, RAID6, and MCE

    2009/05/18 Linux Kernel Podcast

    Play Episode Listen Later May 19, 2009 4:20


    KVM, Xen, 2.6.30-rc6 frustrations, and miscellaneous items

    2009/05/17 Linux Kernel Podcast

    Play Episode Listen Later May 18, 2009 4:57


    Expedited RCU, mod_timer() helper functions, CAN, version numbering, and performance regressions

    2009/05/15 Linux Kernel Podcast

    Play Episode Listen Later May 16, 2009 5:16


    Generic DMA, KVM, DRBD, and a new kernel RC release

    2009/05/14 Linux Kernel Podcast

    Play Episode Listen Later May 15, 2009 5:12


    Cross-platform device drivers, DRBD, KVM, Btrfs, and 2.6.30 deadlocks

    2009/05/13 Linux Kernel Podcast

    Play Episode Listen Later May 14, 2009 6:38


    KVM, Xen, hibernate, forced CPU evacuation, hardware breakpoints, MEMORY_HOTPLUG_RESERVE, and asm-generic headers

    2009/05/12 Linux Kernel Podcast

    Play Episode Listen Later May 13, 2009 5:26


    vmscan, irqfd, OOM, and Xen

    2009/05/11 Linux Kernel Podcast

    Play Episode Listen Later May 12, 2009 5:10


    the x86 relocatable kernel, performance counters, devtmpfs, and NUMA memory affinity

    2009/05/10 Linux Kernel Podcast

    Play Episode Listen Later May 11, 2009 4:09


    page frame snapshots tracing, devtmpfs, a minimal linkerscript, and email address formats

    2009/05/09 Linux Kernel Podcast

    Play Episode Listen Later May 9, 2009 0:13


    The Linux Kernel Mailing List podcast airs Monday to Friday. A special weekend edition will be available on Monday morning.

    2009/05/08 Linux Kernel Podcast

    Play Episode Listen Later May 9, 2009 5:52


    Intel's Trusted Execution Technology, Block Layer Unification, Security patches, Filtering System Calls, The Linux Wireless mini-summit, kernel code coverage measurement tools, and a new RC is announced

    2009/05/07 Linux Kernel Podcast

    Play Episode Listen Later May 8, 2009 4:52


    Generic DMA mapping, Ptrace, Reducing the default HZ value, TuxOnIce, Xen, and x86 fixes

    2009/05/06 Linux Kernel Podcast

    Play Episode Listen Later May 7, 2009 4:22


    IO Controllers, KVM, Ftrace 2, TuxOnIce, and Slow booting.

    2009/05/05 Linux Kernel Podcast

    Play Episode Listen Later May 6, 2009 5:02


    CONFIG_VFAT_NO_CREATE_WITH_LONGNAMES, Sanity checking sysfs clocksource changes, Ftrace, Memmap validity checking, Security, KVM, and IO scheduler based IO controllers.

    2009/05/04 Linux Kernel Podcast

    Play Episode Listen Later May 6, 2009 5:51


    The sendgroup() system call, VFAT long file names support, Machine Check Exceptions, Kbuild fixes, Real Time scheduler tunables, Ftrace speed ups, a new x86 instruction decoder, interrupt injection for KVM, reducing the default HZ value, and the latest updates to KSM.

    2009/05/03 Linux Kernel Podcast

    Play Episode Listen Later May 6, 2009 3:48


    The cgroup IO-throttling scheduler, blank screens upon resume, DRBD, __GFP_PANIC, specific processor optimizations, file descriptor (ab)uses, and the feature removal schedule.

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