Linux 7.1 released, Bootlin contributions inside

Linux 7.1 was released Tuxearlier this week. As usual, the best source of information about the content of this new version will be LWN, see merge windows posts, part 1 and part 2 . This release is a bit outstanding, as it is one of the largest in kernel history, considering commits count. It also highlights a trend that has been visible since 7.0: the number of first-time contributors is increasing a lot. You can find some comments about this tendency in the 7.1 coverage from LWN.

This time again, Bootlin has been very active, as no less than 116 commits were contributed by Bootlin engineers, making the company rank at 21th according to the Linux Kernel Patch Statistics.

In addition to those commits, Bootlin engineers reviewed/merged 137 patches from other contributors:

Looking at our contributions more closely, here are the main areas we have been involved in:

  • Alexis Lothoré continued his work on eBPF, both on selftests and architecture-specific support, an effort funded by the eBPF Foundation
  • Benoît Monin contributed many patches to enable support for Mobileye EyeQ6Lplus platforms
  • Hervé Codina contributed a fix to re-enable fw_devlink for device on x86 platforms, and some improvements for Renesas RZ/N1 platforms
  • Köry Maincent continued his cleanup effort in the tilcdc driver, and enabled the Beagleboard HDMI cape support
  • Luca Ceresoli continued his work on of_drm_find_bridge() deprecation and replacement
  • Maxime Chevallier contributed many fixes and improvements in various net drivers
  • Miquel Raynal continued contributing fixes and support for Winbond chips
  • Paul Louvel contributed fixes to the Talitos cryptographic engine driver
  • Richard Genoud contributed fixes for Allwinner H6 rawnand support
  • Romain Gantois contributed LEDs support with FPC202 controller
  • Thomas Richard contributed a suspend-to-ram fix for J721S2 (TI) platforms
  • Théo Lebrun contributed support for MACB/GEM controllers on Mobileye EyeQ5 platforms

If you are interested in more details about this new features and fixes, you can find the exact list of contributed commits below:

Alexis Lothoré (eBPF Foundation) (3):

Benoît Monin (16):

Herve Codina (1):

Herve Codina (Schneider Electric) (3):

Kory Maincent (2):

Kory Maincent (TI) (7):

Kory Maincent (TI.com) (25):

Luca Ceresoli (10):

Maxime Chevallier (15):

Miquel Raynal (11):

Miquel Raynal (Schneider Electric) (1):

Paul Louvel (3):

Richard Genoud (9):

Romain Gantois (3):

Thomas Richard (TI) (1):

Théo Lebrun (8):

Alexis Lothoré

Author: Alexis Lothoré

Alexis works at Bootlin as embedded Linux engineer since 2023. He has packaged full Linux distributions for a variety of devices, mostly for IoT devices

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