Linux Kernel Podcast

A periodic summary of Linux Kernel Development

Kernel Podcast S2E4 - 2023/04/24 04/25/2023

Kernel Podcast S2E4 - 2023/04/24 Jon Masters summarizes the arrival of the Linux 6.3 kernel release, which includes additional support for the Rust programming language, a new red-black tree data structure for BPF programs, and the removal of a large number of legacy Arm systems. /episode/index/show/jcm/id/26641215

Kernel Podcast S2E3 - 2023/03/09 03/10/2023

Kernel Podcast S2E3 - 2023/03/09 Jon Masters summarizes the closure of the Linux 6.3 "merge window" (period of time during which disruptive changes are allowed to the kernel) and the release of Linux 6.3-rc1. Meanwhile, ongoing development includes the deprecation of several legacy architectures, an Apple Silicon graphics driver written in Rust, and much more. /episode/index/show/jcm/id/26185185

Kernel Podcast S2E2 - 2023/02/12 02/13/2023

Kernel Podcast S2E2 - 2023/02/12 Jon Masters summarizes the tail end of the Linux 6.2 kernel development cycle as developers prepare for the upcoming 6.3 "merge window" in the week ahead. Meanwhile, ongoing development across the stack focuses heavily on Confidential Compute technologies from the various processor architecture vendors. /episode/index/show/jcm/id/25906341

Kernel Podcast S2E1 - 2023/01/21 01/22/2023

Kernel Podcast S2E1 - 2023/01/21 The Linux "Kernel Podcast" returns from a long hiatus for a new "season 2". Our host Jon Masters introduces the new season, and summarizes recent happenings during Linux 6.2 development. /episode/index/show/jcm/id/25688874

Kernel Podcast for 2017/07/07 07/07/2017

Kernel Podcast for 2017/07/07 Linux 4.12 final is released, the 4.13 merge window opens, and various assorted ongoing kernel development is described in detail /episode/index/show/jcm/id/5515222

Kernel Podcast for 2017/05/14 05/15/2017

Kernel Podcast for 2017/05/14 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 /episode/index/show/jcm/id/5356097

Kernel Podcast for 2017/04/27 04/27/2017

Kernel Podcast for 2017/04/27 Linux 4.11-rc8, updating kernel.org cross compilers, Intel 5-level paging, v3 namespaced file capabilities, and ongoing development /episode/index/show/jcm/id/5304710

Kernel Podcast for 2017/04/19 04/20/2017

Kernel Podcast for 2017/04/19 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. /episode/index/show/jcm/id/5282696

Kernel Podcast for 2017/04/11 04/11/2017

Kernel Podcast for 2017/04/11 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 /episode/index/show/jcm/id/5255654

Linux Kernel Podcast for 2017/04/04 04/05/2017

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 /episode/index/show/jcm/id/5238382

Linux Kernel Podcast for 2017/03/28 03/28/2017

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 /episode/index/show/jcm/id/5211693

Linux Kernel Podcast for 2017/03/21 03/21/2017

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 development toward 4.12 onwards /episode/index/show/jcm/id/5189578

Kernel Podcast for 20170313 03/14/2017

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. /episode/index/show/jcm/id/5168594

Kernel Podcast for 20170306 03/06/2017

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. /episode/index/show/jcm/id/5142208

Kernel Podcast for 20170227 02/28/2017

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 your life. /episode/index/show/jcm/id/5124530

Kernel Podcast for 20170220 02/20/2017

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 the newly revived Linux Kernel Podcast. /episode/index/show/jcm/id/5101672

2009/06/14 Linux Kernel Podcast 06/15/2009

2009/06/14 Linux Kernel Podcast 2.6.31 merge window, shipping userspace (sub)packages,large kernel images, and matching disks to boot order /episode/index/show/jcm/id/873743

2009/06/10 Linux Kernel Podcast 06/12/2009

2009/06/10 Linux Kernel Podcast Linux 2.6.30 updates, lockless ring buffer, poisoned hardware, platform device architectural data, and virtual swap readahead /episode/index/show/jcm/id/873721

2009/06/09 Linux Kernel Podcast 06/11/2009

2009/06/09 Linux Kernel Podcast Linux 2.6.30, performance overhead, IO scheduler based IO controller, VIA Centaur CPUs, and procfs documentation /episode/index/show/jcm/id/873716

2009/06/08 Linux Kernel Podcast 06/09/2009

2009/06/08 Linux Kernel Podcast 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 /episode/index/show/jcm/id/873710

2009/06/07 Linux Kernel Podcast 06/09/2009

2009/06/07 Linux Kernel Podcast 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 /episode/index/show/jcm/id/873704

2009/06/04 Linux Kernel Podcast 06/05/2009

2009/06/04 Linux Kernel Podcast 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 /episode/index/show/jcm/id/873698

2009/06/03 Linux Kernel Podcast 06/04/2009

2009/06/03 Linux Kernel Podcast Xen, zero page pointers, detailed stack information, filesystem notification of errors, printk halt delay, and hardware breakpoints /episode/index/show/jcm/id/873690

2009/06/02 Linux Kernel Podcast 06/04/2009

2009/06/02 Linux Kernel Podcast Xen, OOM, DebugFS, Dynamic ftrace support for s390, kprobe-based event tracing, and resetting the TSC /episode/index/show/jcm/id/873685

2009/06/01 Linux Kernel Podcast 06/02/2009

2009/06/01 Linux Kernel Podcast The spirit of the GPL, hacking at mm_struct, retrying core dumps, security, and a generic hashlist implementation /episode/index/show/jcm/id/873680

2009/05/31 Linux Kernel Podcast 06/01/2009

2009/05/31 Linux Kernel Podcast Xen, page allocator sanitization, poisonous hardware, magic sysrq, System Management Interrupts, and Intel Atom CPU support /episode/index/show/jcm/id/873674

2009/05/28 Linux Kernel Podcast 05/29/2009

2009/05/28 Linux Kernel Podcast ARM devicetree support, ftrace, per-BDI flusher threads, and trusted boot technology /episode/index/show/jcm/id/873668

2009/05/27 Linux Kernel Podcast 05/28/2009

2009/05/27 Linux Kernel Podcast Kernel based checkpoint and restart, per-BDI writeback flusher threads, Microblaze MMU support, ARM devicetree support, and Xen /episode/index/show/jcm/id/873661

2009/05/26 Linux Kernel Podcast 05/27/2009

2009/05/26 Linux Kernel Podcast Tracepoints, modules, Machine Check Exceptions, and IO scheduling /episode/index/show/jcm/id/873654

2009/05/25 US Memorial Day Weekend Linux Kernel Podcast 05/27/2009

2009/05/25 US Memorial Day Weekend Linux Kernel Podcast 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 /episode/index/show/jcm/id/873649

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