Linux 5.7 released, Bootlin contributions

We’re late to the party as Linux 5.8 is going to be released in a few weeks, but we never published about our contribution to the current Linux stable release, Linux 5.7, so here is our usual summary! For an overview of the major changes in 5.7, KernelNewbies has a nice summary, as well as LWN, in two parts: part 1 and part 2.

Bootlin contributed 92 commits to this release, a small number of contributions compared to past releases, but nevertheless with some significant work:

  • Antoine Ténart contributed support for offloading the MACsec encryption/decryption to a PHY in the networking stack, as well as the corresponding offloading support for some specific Microchip/Vitesse Ethernet PHYs. See our blog post for more details about this feature.
  • Alexandre Belloni continued converting the Atmel/Microchip platforms to the new clock representation, with this time AT91SAM9G45, SAMA5D3, AT91SAM9N12 and AT91RM9200.
  • Alexandre Belloni, as the RTC subsystem maintainer, again did a lot of cleanup and improvements in multiple RTC drivers.
  • Kamel Bouhara contributed support for I2C recovery for the Atmel/Microchip platforms.

In terms of maintainers activity: Miquèl Raynal, as the MTD co-maintainer, merged 62 patches from other contributors, Alexandre Belloni, the RTC maintainer and Atmel/Microchip platform co-maintainer merged 49 patches from other contributors, while Grégory Clement, as the Marvell EBU platforms co-maintainer, merged 11 patches from other contributors.

Here is the detail of our contributions for 5.7:

Author: Thomas Petazzoni

Thomas Petazzoni is Bootlin's co-owner and CEO. Thomas joined Bootlin in 2008 as a kernel and embedded Linux engineer, became CTO in 2013, and co-owner/CEO in 2021. More details...

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