4.17 kernel published

Stewart Smith stewart at linux.ibm.com
Tue Jun 19 15:10:26 AEST 2018


Joel Stanley <joel at jms.id.au> writes:
> The 4.17 based kernel has been pushed to the openbmc Linux repository.
> From gerrit:
>
>     kernel: Move to 4.17
>
>     This brings the dev-4.13 development cycle to a close. By the end of the
>     cycle the 4.13 tree contained 236 patches.
>
>     This moves all of the 4.13 based functionality on top of a 4.17 base. We
>     currently have 97 patches in the tree. The reduction of 139 is mostly
>     due to code landing in Linus' tree, with a handful of fixes being merged
>     into the base patch.
>
>     The configuration is updated with newly landed drivers. In addition new
>     upstream security features are enabled, and legacy ATAG DTB support and
>     /dev/mem are removed.

No /dev/mem? WOOHOO!

-- 
Stewart Smith
OPAL Architect, IBM.



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