14 DAY TRIAL // Collabora's Mark Filion informs Softpedia today on the contributions made by the Collabora developers to the recently released Linux 4.14 kernel series.
Linux kernel 4.14 is the newest long-term supported (LTS) kernel series, bringing exciting new features like support for AMD Secure Memory Encryption, bigger memory limits, Heterogeneous Memory Management to support upcoming GPUs, faster TBL flushing, asynchronous non-blocking buffered reads, and much more.
In their latest blog article, Collabora reports on the patches they contributed to the Linux 4.14 kernel, and it looks like a total of nine developers managed to contribute 46 patches. Among these contributions, we can mention the implementation of a new driver for PWM controllable vibrators like does used by the Motorola Droid 4 smartphone, and improvements to the da9052 PMIC driver.
"In total, we had 9 developers who authored 46 patches all around the kernel. In addition, 7 Collaborans contributed their time to review and test 40 patches. Finally, over a hundred patches found their way to Linus tree via our team, who provided over 108 non-author sign-offs during this development cycle," said Gabriel Krisman Bertazi.
Support of end-to-end graphics compression for open-source GPU drivers
Other noteworthy contributions made by Collabora's developers to the Linux 4.14 kernel include support of the TPS65217 PMIC, updated TPM documentation, as well as support for asynchronous single-plane atomic updates in the DRM and KMS stacks to reduce the latency of urgent screen updates and improve the UX.
The list of contributions continues with better support for the s35390a RTC driver, bug fixes for the Intel i915 OpenGL graphics driver, media subsystem clean-ups, fixes for the B850v3 clock assignment and the I2C device IDs, and better support of end-to-end graphics compression for open-source graphics drivers.
A complete list with all of Collabora's contributions can be found in their blog story. In the meantime, Linux kernel 4.14 continues to make its way into the software repositories of various GNU/Linux distributions. It's already available for SparkyLinux and Linux Lite users, and it's coming soon to other distros.