Linus Torvalds kicked off the development of the Linux 4.12 kernel series by announcing the availability of the first Release Candidate (RC) a day early than expected due to the Mother’s Day celebration and last-minute pull requests.
According to Linus Torvalds, Linux kernel 4.12 RC1 is a pretty large patch that contains numerous additions, including support for AMD’s next-generation Radeon RX Vega GPUs, along with a new driver for Intel Atom IPUs (Image Processing Units).
The rest of the changes consist of miscellaneous updates to various support hardware architectures, filesystems, networking drivers, headers, documentation, and core files. As usual, you can always study the appended shortlog if you’re curious to know what devices or drivers have been updated.
“Despite it being fairly large, it has (so far) been pretty smooth. I don’t think I personally saw any breakage at all, which is al… (read more)
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