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62 Patches Posted For Stripping Classic Initrd Support From The Linux Kernel
13 September 2025 - Classic Initial RAM Disk

Last month I wrote about initrd support potentially being on its way out of the Linux kernel. For years Linux developers have wanted to phase out the classic initial RAM disk support from the Linux kernel and it looks like that day may finally be near with patches having been posted for removing the support.

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Linux 6.17-rc6 Released With VMSCAPE Mitigation, FLYDIGI APEX 5 Support & Fixes
14 September 2025 - Linux 6.17-rc6

The newest weekly test release of Linux 6.17 is now available as we work toward the stable kernel release around the end of September.

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Linux 6.18 To Allow Rust And C Code To Use The Same Memory Model
15 September 2025 - Rust Atomic Updates

The latest tranche of Rust code ready to go for the upcoming Linux 6.18 kernel is now ready to go and has been queued into a TIP branch ahead of the merge window.

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Tyr Driver Being Submitted For Linux 6.18 As Rust-Based Arm Mali Driver
16 September 2025 - Tyr Driver

The big set of Rust DRM kernel graphics/display driver updates were sent out to DRM-Next ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.18 kernel. Most notable with this pull request is merging the Tyr driver, the new open-source and Rust-based DRM driver for Arm Mali GPUs.

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Apktool Update
2025-09-18
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Release tag:
v2.12.1

Assets:
apktool_2.12.1.jar (24.7 MB)

Linux 6.17 AMD PMF Driver Adding New ACPI ID For Upcoming AMD Platform
18 September 2025 - "upcoming AMD platforms"

A new round of platform-drivers-x86 "fixes" were submitted today for the nearly-complete Linux 6.17 kernel cycle. While on the fixes stage of the kernel, the x86 platform driver changes can be interesting when it comes to new device IDs for enabling new products late in the kernel cycle.

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Linux 6.18 Expected To Land Google's Rust Binder Driver
21 September 2025 - Rust Binder

The past few years Google engineers have been reimplementing Android's Binder driver in the Rust programming language. Binder is a critical part of Android for inter-process communication (IPC) and now with Linux 6.18 it looks like the Rust rewrite will be upstreamed.

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Multi-Kernel Architecture Proposed For The Linux Kernel
21 September 2025 - Linux Multi-Kernel Architecture

Code was open-sourced this week and posted to the Linux kernel mailing list as a "request for comments" (RFC) for a multi-kernel architecture. This proposal could allow for multiple independent kernel instances to co-exist on a single physical machine. Each kernel could run on dedicated CPU Cores while sharing underlying hardware resources. This could also allow for some complex use-cases such as real-time (RT) kernels running on select CPU cores.

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Linux 6.17-rc7 Released: Linux 6.17 Stable Expected Next Week
21 September 2025 - Linux 6.17

Linus Torvalds just released Linux 6.17-rc7 as the last planned release candidate of the in-development Linux 6.17 kernel that is expected to go final next weekend.

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