14 DAY TRIAL // Now that the Linux 4.17 kernel series has seen the light of day, the time has come to overview the contributions made by Collabora's developers during this development cycle.
Released by Linus Torvalds on June 3, 2018, Linux 4.17 is now the most advanced kernel series, adding lots of changes over previous releases. Among some of its highlights, we can mention support for Intel's Cannon Lake processor architecture and HDCP digital copy protection, HDMI/DP audio support for many AMD Radeon GPUs, as well as support for the upcoming AMD Radeon Vega 12 GPUs.
Of course, there are also dozens of updated and new drivers implemented in the Linux 4.17 kernel, as well as support for new architectures, such as the Andes NDS32. Collabora's developers managed to contribute a total of 33 patches during the development cycle of Linux kernel 4.17, as well as to reviewed-by tag 60 patches, sign-off-by tag 93 patches, and test-by tag 4 patches.
Here are Collabora's contributions to the Linux 4.17 kernel
Collabora's contributions to the Linux 4.17 kernel were made mostly to DRM subsystem, improving support for the VC4 and Exynos drivers, addressing a crash in the MSM driver, reviewing a bunch of patches for the OMAPDRM driver, and pushing the PSR (Panel Self Refresh) support for Rockchip devices upstream. Moreover, they also managed to improve the power supply subsystem.
Other contributions include a fix for a nasty kernel freeze on the USB Chipidea Controller and a touchscreen reset line for the i.MX53 platform, various improvements to support for the N900 and Motorola DROID4 phones, some enhancements to the ChromeOS Embedded Controller drivers and the Rockchip Type-C PHY driver, and a few fixes for some Rockchip ASoC issues.
Last but not least, Collabora's developers managed to fix issues with the VirtIO driver and the USB DWC2 controller, enabled secure register access for Bx50v3 devices, and fixed a link for the media documentation. To check out the full list of contributions made by Collabora's developers to the Linux 4.17 kernel series, you can read their latest blog article here.