Kernel Watch
Jon Masters keeps up with all the latest happenings in the Linux kernel, so you don’t have to.
Linus Torvalds announced both the release of Linux 6.4, and the first release candidate for what will become Linux 6.5 in another couple of months. Linux 6.4 had few “big ticket” user visible features (although it did include initial Apple Silicon M2 chipset support) but instead made many internal changes, such as the removal of the SLOB memory allocator, support for Intel’s LAM (Linear Address Masking) for pointer tagging feature, and the capability to support educating userspace about which of the growing zoo of extensions a given RISC-V implementation might actually be implementing via riscv_hwprobe.