Linux 5.13 Released With Apple M1 Bringup, Landlock, FreeSync HDMI + Much More

[avem]

Here's a new feature in 5.13 which makes data restoration from ext4 a lot more difficult: https://lwn.net/Articles/854054/

I wonder if it can be disabled in runtime. I'm not a privacy maniac and I'm a lot more interested in being able to restore data (backups notwithstanding sometimes you don't back up everything).

[avem]

At this stage, is there any ETA for this kernel in Fedora?

Normally Fedora skips .0 .1 and .2 releases, and then it goes through testing, so, the earliest you can expect this kernel in updates is three weeks from now. If you don't want to wait, you can install a version from F35 or Rawhide.

[pafnucy]

So what happened with the Paragon-sponsored NTFS write driver. Is it still in the works? Last I heard was that it missed 5.12 merge window, and now it's missing here again...

[jacob]

if you really want to test it and cannot / don't want to compile it by yourself, you can try the vanilla packages.

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Kernel_Vanilla_Repositories

they're still at the rc7 but will probably upgraded very soon. (I'm using rc7 right now and has been ok for a while)

Yeah no thanks, I lost interest in rebuilding the kernel myself for anything other than testing machines about 15 years ago... especially since nowadays virtually every distro has its own kernel patches and modifications and needs the kernel to be configured in a specific way, otherwise things break (typically I had issues with containers and bridged network for VMs with vanilla kernels). I'll wait for an official Fedora build but thank you for the info.

[kevincs]

Anyone tried FreeSync HDMI ? Is it working out of the box with XOrg?
I can't test because I'm stuck on W10.

This new Freesync HDMI feature: does it work under Wayland? Is it enabled the same way as DP Freesync was?

From my investigation of the various commits, those patches only add (Freesync over HDMI <= 2.0) support currently for Renoir and Navi 12.

The code depends on DMCU firmware, which only a few GPU arch's have a DMCU firmware available on linux, you can see here: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux...it/tree/amdgpu

The code currently only seems to be working for Renoir and Navi 12, even though other arch's have a DMCU firmware available.: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/bl...gpu_dm.c#L1332

Maybe later one they will add support for other arch's.

[xcom]

From my investigation of the various commits, those patches only add (Freesync over HDMI <= 2.0) support currently for Renoir and Navi 12.

The code depends on DMCU firmware, which only a few GPU arch's have a DMCU firmware available on linux, you can see here: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux...it/tree/amdgpu

The code currently only seems to be working for Renoir and Navi 12, even though other arch's have a DMCU firmware available.: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/bl...gpu_dm.c#L1332

Maybe later one they will add support for other arch's.

Lets hope they will add Vega10 and Polaris soon