Linux 6.1 released, Bootlin contributions

Linux 6.1 has been released yesterday, a week later than expected. Head over to LWN (part 1, part 2) or KernelNewbies for an overview of the major features merged in this release.

For this release, Bootlin contributed a total of 38 patches, with the following highlights:

  • Maxime Chevallier added initial support for the QUSGMII PHY mode, together with supporting code in the lan966x MAC driver and lan966x PHY driver.
  • Maxime Chevallier added a new PCS driver for the Altera PSE
  • Maxime Chevallier converted the Altera TSE MAC driver to phylink
  • Paul Kocialkowski contributed many improvements to the Allwinner sun6i camera interface driver, which are preparation commits to introduce support for interacting with the Allwinner ISP

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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