{"id":45861,"date":"2022-08-15T09:30:55","date_gmt":"2022-08-15T09:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/linux-6-0-debuts-missing-some-rusty-bits-the-register\/"},"modified":"2022-08-15T09:30:55","modified_gmt":"2022-08-15T09:30:55","slug":"linux-6-0-debuts-missing-some-rusty-bits-the-register","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/linux-6-0-debuts-missing-some-rusty-bits-the-register\/","title":{"rendered":"Linux 6.0 debuts, missing some Rusty bits \u2022 The Register"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body\">\n<p>Emperor Penguin Linus Torvalds has released the first release candidate for Linux 6.0, but doesn&#8217;t mind what you call it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After I had already decided to call this kernel 6.0, a few Chinese developers piped up and pointed out that &#8216;5.20&#8217; is a more wholesome version of the Western &#8216;4.20&#8217; internet-famous number,&#8221; he wrote in his announcement that Linux 6.0 rc1 has been released.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;4.20&#8221; is a reference to a day on which some celebrate marijuana, while &#8220;5.20&#8221; does likewise for magic mushrooms.<\/p>\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"adun\" data-pos=\"top\" data-raptor=\"condor\" data-xsm=\",fluid,mpu,\" data-sm=\",fluid,mpu,\" data-md=\",fluid,mpu,\">\n        <noscript><\/p>\n<p>                <\/p>\n<p>        <\/noscript>\n    <\/div>\n<p>&#8220;So if you want to call this &#8216;Linux 5.20&#8217;, go right ahead,&#8221; Torvalds wrote.<\/p>\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"adun\" data-pos=\"top\" data-raptor=\"falcon\" data-xmd=\",fluid,mpu,leaderboard,\" data-lg=\",fluid,mpu,leaderboard,\" data-xlg=\",fluid,billboard,superleaderboard,mpu,leaderboard,\" data-xxlg=\",fluid,billboard,superleaderboard,brandwidth,brandimpact,leaderboard,mpu,\">\n            <noscript><\/p>\n<p>                    <img src=\"https:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/ad?co=1&amp;iu=\/6978\/reg_software\/oses&amp;sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&amp;tile=4&amp;c=44YvoSTg1lvbwnIwcWOxvP2gAAAME&amp;t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D426raptor%3Dfalcon%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>            <\/noscript>\n        <\/div>\n<div class=\"adun_eagle_desktop_story_wrapper\">\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"adun\" data-pos=\"mid\" data-raptor=\"eagle\" data-xxlg=\",mpu,dmpu,\">\n                <noscript><\/p>\n<p>                        <img src=\"https:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/ad?co=1&amp;iu=\/6978\/reg_software\/oses&amp;sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&amp;tile=3&amp;c=33YvoSTg1lvbwnIwcWOxvP2gAAAME&amp;t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D3%26raptor%3Deagle%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                <\/noscript>\n            <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Because the kernel version numbers really are entirely made up and have no intrinsic meaning.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That this week&#8217;s release has the 6.0 label is still nice to know, as discussion on the Linux kernel mailing list in recent weeks used 5.20 and 6.0 interchangeably.<\/p>\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"adun\" data-pos=\"top\" data-raptor=\"falcon\" data-xsm=\",fluid,mpu,\" data-sm=\",fluid,mpu,\" data-md=\",fluid,mpu,\">\n            <noscript><\/p>\n<p>                    <img src=\"https:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/ad?co=1&amp;iu=\/6978\/reg_software\/oses&amp;sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&amp;tile=4&amp;c=44YvoSTg1lvbwnIwcWOxvP2gAAAME&amp;t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D426raptor%3Dfalcon%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>            <\/noscript>\n        <\/div>\n<p>ace <i>The Register<\/i> has already reported, the release does not make major changes to the kernel but does include many useful updates \u2013 such as more RISC-V support, code to drive Intel&#8217;s Gaudi accelerators, and improved ACPI handling.<\/p>\n<p>Torvalds lamented some Rust-enabling code didn&#8217;t make it into the release.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I actually was hoping that we&#8217;d get some of the first rust infrastructure, and the multi-gen LRU VM, but neither of them happened this time around,&#8221; he mused, before observing &#8220;There&#8217;s always more releases.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"adun\" id=\"story_eagle_xsm_sm_md_xmd_lg_xlg\" data-pos=\"mid\" data-raptor=\"eagle\" data-xsm=\",mpu,dmpu,\" data-sm=\",mpu,dmpu,\" data-md=\",mpu,dmpu,\" data-xmd=\",mpu,dmpu,\" data-lg=\",mpu,dmpu,\" data-xlg=\",mpu,dmpu,\">\n            <noscript><\/p>\n<p>                    <img src=\"https:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/ad?co=1&amp;iu=\/6978\/reg_software\/oses&amp;sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&amp;tile=3&amp;c=33YvoSTg1lvbwnIwcWOxvP2gAAAME&amp;t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D3%26raptor%3Deagle%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>            <\/noscript>\n        <\/div>\n<p>&#8220;This is one of those releases where you should not look at the diffstat too closely, because more than half of it is yet another AMD GPU register dump,&#8221; he added, noting that Intel&#8217;s Gaudi2 Ai processors are also likely to produce plenty of similar kernel additions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The CPU people also show up in the JSON files that describe the perf events, but they look absolutely tiny compared to the &#8216;asic_reg&#8217; auto-generated GPU and AI hardware definitions,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>The release includes 13,099 changed files, 1,280,295 insertions and 341,210 deletions.  Torvalds calculated those numbers &#8220;just because I was curious and looked.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He wants you to be curious too \u2013 or at least curious enough to test the kernel, because that&#8217;s what release candidates are for and this one contains at least one active bug.  \u00ae<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emperor Penguin Linus Torvalds has released the first release candidate for Linux 6.0, but doesn&#8217;t mind what you call it. &#8220;After I had already decided to call this kernel 6.0, a few Chinese developers piped up and pointed out that &#8216;5.20&#8217; is a more wholesome version of the Western &#8216;4.20&#8217; internet-famous number,&#8221; he wrote in &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/linux-6-0-debuts-missing-some-rusty-bits-the-register\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Linux 6.0 debuts, missing some Rusty bits \u2022 The Register<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":32392,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/linus-torvalds-uses-an-arm-powered-m2-macbook-air-to-release-latest-linux-kernel\/","url_meta":{"origin":45861,"position":0},"title":"Linus Torvalds uses an Arm-powered M2 MacBook Air to release latest Linux kernel","date":"August 1, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"enlarge \/ Slowly but surely, the Asahi Linux team is getting Linux up and running on Apple Silicon Macs.Apple\/Asahi Linux We don't normally cover individual releases of the Linux kernel, partly because most updates are pretty routine. 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