Printk Improvement For Linux 6.19 Can Significantly Speed-Up Boot Times For Some Systems
4 December 2025 - printk

The Linux kernel's printk code for logging kernel messages has some useful improvements with the Linux 6.19 kernel.

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Linux 6.19 GPU Driver Features: Color Pipeline API, Intel Xe3P, AMDGPU For GCN 1.0/1.1
4 December 2025 - Linux 6.19 Graphics Drivers

The big set of kernel graphics driver features were merged today for the Linux 6.19 kernel. As usual there is a lot of new feature work on the AMD Radeon, Intel, and NVIDIA graphics drivers plus the smaller Arm/embedded graphics like now having initial Qualcomm Gen8 GPU support. Plus the growing number of accelerator "accel" drivers for NPUs / AI accelerators.

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Linux Still Dealing With Quirky Firewire Devices As We Enter 2026
5 December 2025 - Per-Device Interoperability Quirks

For Linux 6.19 as what will be the first stable kernel release of 2026, the IEEE-1394 Firewire stack continues dealing with device quirks and improving support for different Firewire-connected devices. In 2026 is also when the Linux Firewire maintainer plans to begin recommending users migrate away from the IEEE-1394 bus followed by closing the Linux Firewire efforts in 2029.

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Linux 6.19 Brings Many Driver Core Changes For Rust, Housekeeping CPUs Exposed
6 December 2025 - Driver Core

Beyond the main set of Rust changes to land in Linux 6.19 earlier this week, as we near the end of the first week of two for the Linux 6.19 merge window... More Rust changes. This time around the driver core updates for the kernel bring a number of Rust changes.

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Linux Kernel stable v5.10.247 update
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Linux 6.19 Adds New Console Font To Better Handle Modern Laptops With HiDPI Displays
6 December 2025 - Terminus 10x18 Console Font

Sent in for the Linux 6.19 merge window when it comes to the frame-buffer device "FBDEV" subsystem are just a set of "fixes" for FBDEV drivers and code clean-ups. But it does also include a new console font option for better supporting modern laptops with high density displays.

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Glow Kernel v4.4 for marble/marblein
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Changelog:
- Same as Melt-marble-v4.4

Rust Drivers In Linux 6.19 Will Now Support... Module Parameters
7 December 2025 - Rust Module Parameters

On top of the Rust driver core changes and other Rust code for Linux 6.19, the modules infrastructure for this new kernel version is also bringing some new code. Surprisingly, it's taken until now for Rust kernel modules/drivers to support module parameters as is common practice for passing different options when booting the kernel or manually loading kernel drivers with extra non-default options.

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NVIDIA Plumbs DMA-BUF Support For VFIO PCI Devices In Linux 6.19
7 December 2025 - DMA-BUF For VFIO PCI

In addition to NVIDIA improving peer-to-peer (P2P) DMA for block devices in Linux 6.19, NVIDIA also led an effort providing DMA-BUF support for VFIO PCI devices for opening up some interesting new cases moving forward. As part of the VFIO pull request this new functionality has landed for Linux 6.19.

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Linux 6.19 Introduces PCIe Link Encryption & Device Authentication, AMD SEV-TIO Enabling
7 December 2025 - PCI Express Link Encryption

One of the most exciting merges this weekend to the Linux 6.19 kernel is establishing the infrastructure for supporting PCI Express link encryption and device authentication. Multiple vendors are working on PCIe link encryption for their hardware while this initial pull begins laying the foundation of AMD SEV-TIO Trusted I/O support for the mainline kernel.

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Ventoy Update
2025-12-08
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Release tag:
Ventoy 1.1.08 release

Assets:
sha256.txt (276 bytes)
ventoy-1.1.08-linux.tar.gz (19.1 MB)
ventoy-1.1.08-livecd.iso (186.6 MB)
ventoy-1.1.08-windows.zip (15.9 MB)

Early Benchmarks Of Linux 6.19 Git Raising Some Concerns
8 December 2025 - Linux 6.19

While just half-way through the Linux 6.19 merge window, over the weekend I began running some benchmarks of the current Linux 6.19 Git state compared to Linux 6.18 LTS stable. There are some minor performance improvements to note in a few of the tests on the first system I tested but also some regressions at this very early pre-RC1 state of the Linux 6.19 kernel.

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Raspberry Pi4 bootloader EEPROM Stable Update
2025-12-09
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Build date:
20251208

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

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pieeprom-2025-12-08.bin

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512.0 KB

Live Update Orchestrator "LUO" Merged For Linux 6.19
8 December 2025 - Live Update Orchestrator

Google engineers for the past number of months have been working on the Live Update Orchestrator as a new way of applying live Linux kernel updates. The Live Update Orchestrator "LUO" builds atop the Kexec Handover "KHO" functionality already within the kernel. Google has since been deplyoing LUO in their production environments for faster security updates to kernels, especially when involving VMs. LUO is now upstream in Linux 6.19.

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Linux 6.19's Hung Task & System Lockup Detectors Can Provide Greater Insight
8 December 2025 - More Dumping

Beginning with the Linux 6.19 kernel, the hung task detector and system lock-up detector are now optionally able to provide greater insight into the issues by dumping additional system information. The new lockup_sys_info and hung_task_sys_info sysctl knobs were merged over as part of the pull requests managed by Andrew Morton.

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Bug-Catching "Smatch" Static Analysis On The Linux Kernel Under Threat Due To Funding Gap
9 December 2025 - Smatch Static Analysis

For the past 15 years the Smatch static analysis tool has been routinely run for uncovering countless bugs within the Linux kernel. Dan Carpenter who authored Smatch and has been routinely analyzing the Linux kernel with it has authored more than 5,568 patches over the years to become one of the top bug fixers for the kernel. But his funding at Linaro has been cut and the project's future now in question.

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Turbostat Introduces New Cache Statistics, Nova Lake + Wildcat Lake Support
10 December 2025 - Linux 6.19 Turbostat

Turbostat is the Linux command-line utility for reporting CPU frequency / power / C-states and related performance / power management items namely for modern AMD and Intel processors. This CLI utility lives within the Linux kernel source tree and for Linux 6.19 has picked up a few new features.

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Linux 6.19 Gets Rid Of The Kernel's "Genocide" Function
10 December 2025 - d_genocide

While the Linux kernel has inclusive terminology guidelines for the past five years to replace phrases like master/slave and blacklist/whitelist, there has surprisingly been a "genocide" function within the kernel that was questioned when it was first submitted for inclusion but now removed in Linux 6.19.

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Linux Fixes A Performance Regression In The Slab Code
10 December 2025 - Linux 6.19 + Slab

A performance fix has been submitted to the Linux kernel for dealing with a regression in the Slab memory allocation code.

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