They contributed a total of 76 patches to Linux 4.12

Jul 4, 2017 21:33 GMT  ·  By

Collabora's Mark Filion is informing us today about the contributions made by various Collabora developers to the recently released Linux 4.12 kernel series.

As you are aware, Linux 4.12 is one of the biggest kernels released, almost as big as the long-term supported Linux 4.9 kernel, and it looks like Collabora developers have also made a record number of contribution this cycle. In numbers, a total of 12 developers contributed no less than 76 patches to Linux kernel 4.12, not to mention that they also tagged numerous other patches.

"This is a new record number of developers contributing to a single kernel release for Collabora, just raising the bar above the 11 developers contributing to the 4.9 development cycle," says Collabora. "Additionally, Collabora has added 29 Reviewed-by tags and 9 Tested-by tags. Furthermore, 41 patches received a Signed-off-by tag from Collabora developers."

Here are the most important contributions made by Collabora

Among some of the most important contributions made by Collabora's developers, we can mention an extra layer of performance improvements to virtual NVMe devices, an initial version of the Virtual Media Controller Driver (VIMC), porting of the QXL spice virtual GPU driver to atomic modesetting, and support for Coreboot to Google's firmware memory console driver.

In addition, they added support for the second video output of the GE B850v3 bridge, improved support for Rockchip-based boards, implemented a patch to reduce the DMA startup latency received by the i.MX serial driver, improved the TWL4030 power module, improved event handling for multiple V4L2 drivers, and fixed support for the Tiny-USB adapter.

Last but not least, Collabora developers added support for CRC-based framing to the DRM subsystem, improved support for Toby-Churchill SL50 board, as well as various power supply and IIO devices, added support for ELO Accutouch USB touchscreens, improved the documentation of the VME subsystem, enabled SATA support on the Rock 2 square board, and fixed support for the Apple Magic mouse.

For the entire list of contributions made by the Collabora developers to the Linux 4.12 kernel, check out their blog announcement. In the meantime, you can download the Linux kernel 4.12 source tarball from kernel.org if you want to compile it on your Linux-based operating system, and also check out our story on Linux kernel 4.12 to see what else is new in this major kernel version.