14 DAY TRIAL // Collabora's Mark Filion is informing Softpedia today about the contributions made by a total of nine Collabora developers to the recently released Linux 4.11 kernel.
Linux 4.11 is now the latest stable kernel that's available for Linux-based operating systems users who want to adopt the new series announced by Linus Torvalds himself on the last day of April 2017. Linux kernel 4.11 brings a lot of improvements and new features like scalable swapping for SSDs or support for OPAL drives.
A brand new perf ftrace tool, journalling support for MD RAID5, initial support for Intel Gemini Lake chips, a new statx() system call to replace stat(2), persistent scrollback buffers for VGA consoles, and support for the SMC-R (Shared Memory Communications-RDMA) protocol are also implemented in the Linux 4.11 kernel.
Collabora's contributions are all about fixes and cleanups in DRM
Collabora's contributions to the Linux 4.11 kernel are all about fixes and cleanups in DRM. These include an ASoC machine driver for Rockchip rk3288-based boards that feature both analog and HDMI audio output, as well as support for slave mode in the Everest Semi ES8328 audio codec.
They also included ES8388 as a compatible device in the ES8328's codec driver, added support for a bunch of peripherals and buses for the Toby-Churchill SL50 board, improved the documentation for the IIO-related sensors, integrated the new CRC debugfs API in the Intel i915 driver, and improved CRC in DRM.
Collabora's devs also fixed a sink display error in DRM EDID, which occurred when no deep color was available for the Rotel RSX-1058 home entertainment solution, as well as added several other improvements including to allow QXL to be built when the FBDEV_EMULATION environment variable is disabled, and allow the use of Atomic State in legacy ioctls.
Lastly, they managed to improve the Epson RTC by removing an unnecessary spinlock, as well as fix a copy of uninitialized memory in the Ethernet qed code. A full list of the 44 patches that the Collabora developers contributed to the Linux 4.11 kernel series is available in the blog announcement.