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Linux kernel 6.10 is out now

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Linus Torvalds announced the release of Linux kernel 6.10 and with it, plenty of new hardware support and improvements to existing hardware. You know the drill.

Announcing the release Torvalds said:

So the final week was perhaps not quote as quiet as the preceding ones, which I don't love - but it also wasn't noisy enough to warrant an extra rc. And much of the noise this last week was bcachefs again (with netfs a close second), so it was all pretty compartmentalized.

In fact, about a third of the patch for the last week was filesystem-related (there were also some btrfs latency fixes and other noise), which is unusual, but none of it looks particularly scary.

Another third was drivers, and the rest is "random".

Anyway, this obviously means that the merge window for 6.11 opens up tomorrow. Let's see how that goes, with much of Europe probably making ready for summer vacation.

Just some cherry-picked items that made it into Linux kernel 6.10 below.

Gaming Related:

  • Steam Deck IMU support, plus the kernel now accounts for both versions of the Steam Deck (LCD / OLED).
  • NTSYNC driver was merged to hopefully improve Wine / Proton game performance, but not enabled yet.
  • Improvements to Xbox Elite 2 controller back paddle buttons over Bluetooth.
  • Added support for the Machenike G5 Pro Controller.
  • Improved support for some ROG Ally buttons.
  • Added support for the ASUS ROG RAIKIRI PRO.
  • New support for GameForce Chi retro handheld.
  • Improved Aya Neo KUN support.

Other picks:

  • Panthor driver for Arm Mali Valhall GPUs landed.
  • More work on bringing up support for the upcoming Intel Battlemage.
  • A new mseal() syscall for the Linux kernel that "protects the VMAs of a given virtual memory range against modifications", currently Google Chrome plans to hook into it.
  • Lots of RISC-V support improvements.
  • More WiFi 7 hardware support.
  • Lots of new Arm device support across various small boards like the ArmSom Sige7, Forlinx FET3588-C and others.

There's thousands of changes of course that I'm not going to go over, those are just a few bits that jumped out that I thought you might want to know. If I missed anything important and gaming related, be sure to send in a tip.

See more in the full changelog.

Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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ShabbyX Jul 15
Quoting: CedrickThe "nice" era is over

What are you talking about?
kuhpunkt Jul 15
Quoting: ShabbyX
Quoting: CedrickThe "nice" era is over

What are you talking about?

Before 6.10 it was 6.9.

69. The sex position.
Quoting: CedrickThe "nice" era is over

Maybe there will be a 6.66 and later a 6.69 Kernel :>

*Posted from 6.9.9*


Last edited by Vortex_Acherontic on 15 July 2024 at 4:12 pm UTC
Dana Souly Jul 15
Thank you, Liam - i'm always interested in Patchnotes :)
Quoting: kuhpunkt
Quoting: ShabbyX
Quoting: CedrickThe "nice" era is over

What are you talking about?

Before 6.10 it was 6.9.

69. The sex position.

What ever you guys are smoking i'd like to try. This is probably most random shit here ever
Pyretic Jul 15
Finally, Steam Deck IMU support! It's been really annoying that we've had to rely on Steam Input to expose the gyroscope and accelerometer. Hopefully, this means that more games will start to rely on gyro controls.
whizse Jul 15
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Quoting: dziadulewiczWhat ever you guys are smoking i'd like to try. This is probably most random shit here ever
Old, old, meme. Can't believe you haven't heard of it before, You need to get your mind into the gutter!

https://www.dailydot.com/unclick/69-nice-meme-twitter/
Quoting: whizse
Quoting: dziadulewiczWhat ever you guys are smoking i'd like to try. This is probably most random shit here ever
Old, old, meme. Can't believe you haven't heard of it before, You need to get your mind into the gutter!

https://www.dailydot.com/unclick/69-nice-meme-twitter/

Phew! Gutter indeed. I don't even get it .. Suppose it's just an old (and boring) meme without substance ha ha.
Shmerl Jul 15
I think ntsync is far from ready: https://gitlab.com/linux-kernel/linux/-/commits/master/drivers/misc/ntsync.c

Basically unusable yet.
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