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Announcement for Linux 4.8-rc1 [1]: > It's been two weeks, and the merge window for 4.8 is thus closed. > > Due to travel last week, I actually still have a few pull requests > pending in my inbox that I just wanted to take another look at before > merging, but the large bulk of the merge window material has been > merged, and I wanted to make sure there aren't any new ones coming in. > > This seems to be building up to be one of the bigger releases lately, > but let's see how it all ends up. The merge window has been fairly > normal, although the patch itself looks somewhat unusual: over 20% of > the patch is documentation updates, due to conversion of the drm and > media documentation from docbook to the Sphinx doc format. There are > other doc updates, but that's the big bulk of it. > > If you ignore the documentation format change, things look fairly > regular, with about 60% of the non-documentation diffs being drivers > (gpu, networking, media, sound, etc) and about 15% being arch updates > (arm, powerpc and x86 dominate, but there's mips and s390 too). > > The rest is spread out - core networking, tooling (mainly perf), > include files, core kernel, vfs and low-level filesystems (xfs stands > out). Few areas escaped: > > 10787 files changed, 612208 insertions(+), 272098 deletions(-) > > Go out and test. The diffs and logs are too big to post, so as usual > for rc1, I'm just appending my "merge log" for a very high-level view. Announcement for Linux 4.8-rc2 [2]. While at it, select `EARLY_PRINTK_DBGP` as an alternative to the serial port to get Linux kernel messages [3]. ``` $ diff -u /boot/config-4.7.0.mx64.94 /boot/config-4.8.0-rc2.mx64.95 […] -# CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK_DBGP is not set +CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK_DBGP=y […] ``` [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/8/7/93 [2] https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/8/14/874 [3] https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/x86/earlyprintk.txt
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