Linux 6.18 DRM Pull Includes New Tyr & Rocket Drivers, More AMD & Intel GPU Enhancements
5 October 2025 - Linux 6.18 Direct Rendering Manager

The Direct Rendering Manager "DRM" pull request ended up leading to Linus Torvalds complaining over text and Rust code formatting but in the end he pulled all of these kernel graphics driver updates and also the associated "accel" accelerator subsystem drivers too.

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可能是人类历史上最蠢的发言。
恭喜五字母先生达成了一项世界记录。

一眼丁真，鉴定为倒数第二层。

不去讨论问题本身，而是诉诸人身，精神胜利法属实是被你玩明白了，我不屑与此类人为伍。
阴阳我是吧，骂我是吧，您随意。当一个人说出来的每一句话都不像是人话时，那他说的每一句话都是放屁。

说到这里我想再跟大家讲一个发生在我身上的故事：
我20年那会在一家公司上班，当时有一位同事（下面我就称呼他为小Z吧）几乎是和我同时应聘进来的，再加上年龄相仿，我们就成为了好朋友。虽然我和小Z不是在同一个部门，兴趣爱好也不是很相似，但吃饭总是在一起，平时也可以说是无话不谈了。
然后，20年那年全世界发生了一件什么大事，我想大家应该都还记得。记得有一次，我和小Z在外边饭馆吃午饭时，我和他描述了我在外网看到的一些由于过于激进的防疫政策导致的一些人间惨剧，以及一些我的观点和看法，指出有关部门哪些地方做得不科学。小Z只是在听，一直沉默不语，片刻过后，他说了一句令我振聋发聩此生难忘的话：
“我觉得你这个人思想有点问题。”
自这件事之后，我借着工位调整的机会逐渐疏远了小Z，再也不主动邀请他一起去吃饭了，和他聊天时我也会投其所好说点他爱听的，刻意避免去讨论某些话题。
这就是为什么我看不起并痛恨那些只会攻击人身满嘴脏话的人。

对可能造成歧义的言论的补充说明（鉴于原始消息已经被转发和引用了，因此我就不再修改了）：
“我证明不了它有用，因此我认为它没用”，这句话是总结了那篇分析讨论的内容所表达的观点，其中的“我”是指参与了讨论的讨论者们，而不是指我Pzqqt，可不要会错意了。
至于那篇分析讨论的原文，为了避免争议进一步放大，我就不放链接了，感兴趣的话自己去找。
好的，现在回过头再来探讨kshrink_slabd和kshrink_lruvecd到底是否有用，我最终的观点是：比起个人开发者的一家之言，我更愿意相信一加和小米的开发者们。

Google already merged 5.10.245 into android12-5.10-lts

Realtek ECC Engine Driver Upstreamed For Linux 6.18
7 October 2025 - Realtek ECC Hardware Engine

The Memory Technology Device "MTD" subsystem updates are merged for the in-development Linux 6.18 kernel.

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LineageOS for Raspberry Pi Update
2025-10-07
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Release tag:
LineageOS 23.0 20251007

Assets:
lineage-23.0-20251007-UNOFFICIAL-KonstaKANG-rpi4-ota.zip (817.1 MB)
lineage-23.0-20251007-UNOFFICIAL-KonstaKANG-rpi5-ota.zip (821.5 MB)

The Many Memory Management Improvements In Linux 6.18
7 October 2025 - Linux 6.18 Memory Management

The many memory management "MM" changes were recently merged into the Linux 6.18 kernel, consisting of a number of interesting patch series.

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用于为基于android12-5.10内核的设备添加TCP Westwood Sub拥塞控制算法支持。

注意：
0. 该模块不限制机型、内核和rom，只要内核是android12-5.10的GKI就能刷。
1. 该模块不会主动修改你的TCP拥塞控制算法，你可以在Magisk/KernelSU app中点击该模块的action按钮来将TCP拥塞控制算法切换为Westwood Sub。
2. 该模块不支持LineageOS团队的OSS kernel，虽然在模块安装上没有设置限制，但tcp_westwood_sub.ko一定不会被成功加载。

This module is used to add TCP Westwood Sub congestion control support for devices based on the android12-5.10 kernel.

Notes:
0. This module is not restricted by model, kernel and ROM. As long as the kernel is GKI of android12-5.10, it can be flashed.
1. This module will not modify your TCP congestion control algorithm. You can switch the TCP congestion control algorithm to Westwood Sub by clicking the module's action button in the Magisk/KernelSU app.
2. This module does not support the OSS kernel of the LineageOS team. Although there are no restrictions on module installation, tcp_westwood_sub.ko will definitely not be loaded successfully.

Linux 6.18 Lands Initial Framework For USB Driver Rust Bindings
7 October 2025 - char/misc pull

In addition to a lot of rust code merged last week for Linux 6.18, more Rust code has since landed by way of the char/misc pull request.

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LLVM Update
2025-10-08
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Release tag:
LLVM 21.1.3

Slim LLVM toolchains:
Here

Linux Fair DRM Scheduler Graduates Out Of The "RFC" Phase
8 October 2025 - Fair DRM Scheduler

Tvrtko Ursulin of Igalia has been leading the work on developing a "fair" DRM scheduler for Linux kernel graphics drivers. This scheduling algorithm is inspired by CFS and aims to improve the experience of running interactive graphical clients in parallel with heavy GPU workloads. This scheduler is inching closer to being ready for the mainline Linux kernel.

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Raspberry Pi4 bootloader EEPROM Stable Update
2025-10-09
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Build date:
20251008

Changelog:
https://github.com/raspberrypi/rpi-eeprom/blob/master/firmware-2711/release-notes.md

Download:
pieeprom-2025-10-08.bin

Size:
512.0 KB

Linux 6.18 USB Brings Intel USBIO Drivers, Offload Improvements
8 October 2025 - USB

In addition to the Linux 6.18 kernel bringing initial bindings for writing Rust USB drivers, the main USB/Thunderbolt subsystem updates for Linux 6.18 brought a variety of other enhancements.

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Linux 6.18 Ships With A New Python App In The Source Tree
9 October 2025 - Perf ilist.py

Merged overnight to the Linux 6.18 kernel were all of the perf subsystem tool updates. Notable with the perf tooling updates is a new Python application living within the kernel source tree.

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Linux Seeing First LED Driver Written In Rust
9 October 2025 - Rust LED Driver

The expanse of Rust-written kernel drivers for Linux continues. Posted to the Linux kernel mailing list is the first LED kernel driver written in the Rust programming language.

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Google Clang Prebuilt Update
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Commit

Download tar.gz:
clang 21.0.0 (based on r574158) from build 14229180

Linux 6.18-rc1 Released With New Tyr & Rocket Drivers, Haptic Touchpads & DM-PCACHE
12 October 2025 - Linux 6.18

Linux 6.18-rc1 is now available for testing with the Linux 6.18 merge window closed. Linux 6.18 will be out in December and is anticipated to become this year's Linux LTS kernel version.

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