Linux 2.6.25-rc6 Kernel Released

With just about a week passing since Linux 2.6.25-rc5, the sixth release candidate for the upcoming Linux 2.6.25 kernel has been released. Most changes in Linux 2.6.25-rc6 deal with architecture, documentation, and driver updates. One note about this release is that the Linux 2.6.25 kernel now has the device ID AHCI support for the upcoming NVIDIA MCP7B motherboard chipset.

Last night David Airlie has requested Linus pull from the drm-fixes branch in time for the Linux 2.6.25 final release. Among other changes, this branch contains fixes for the RS690 + 2.6.25-rc3 DRM + xf86-video-ati hang, VIA fixes for a few upstream bugs, and new ATI card support in the DRM. The card support is a new RS690 PCI ID and adjusting that RV550 GPUs are based upon the RV530 series (not RV515). David's mailing list message can be read at SourceForge and the drm-fixes git branch can be viewed using the Kernel gitweb.

The Linux 2.6.25-rc6 kernel release announcement can be read on LKML.org. It looks like the Linux 2.6.25 final kernel will be out in late March or early April.