Linux 6.12 Features Are Super Exciting With Real-Time, Sched_ext, Intel Xe2 & Raspberry Pi 5

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Linux 6.12 Features Are Super Exciting With Real-Time, Sched_ext, Intel Xe2 & Raspberry Pi 5

The Linux 6.12 merge window is wrapping up today with the release of Linux 6.12-rc1 in the coming hours. This is going to be a heck of an exciting kernel. There's real-time PREEMPT_RT finally in mainline, the much anticipated sched_ext code also was merged, QR codes for DRM panic messages, initial out-of-the-box support for Intel Xe2 graphics with Lunar Lake and Battlemage, initial Raspberry Pi 5 support, and a ton of other hardware support additions and new innovative kernel software features.

https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-612-features

[Volta]

It's going to be awesome release. Too bad ntsync wasn't merged.

[vandelay]

Too bad ntsync wasn't merged.

Yep, that's the one I was hoping for the most. Not sure what's going on there since it looks like another revision has been ready for months and was just waiting on review.

[mrg666]

Maybe, Linus should make it version 7, then.

[shmerl]

It's going to be awesome release. Too bad ntsync wasn't merged.

Is there any progress? I haven't seen any commits for half a year already:

https://gitlab.com/linux-kernel/linux/-/commits/master/drivers/misc/ntsync.c

[bkdwt]

Is there any progress? I haven't seen any commits for half a year already:

https://gitlab.com/linux-kernel/linu.../misc/ntsync.c

He's dead, Jim

[vandelay]

Is there any progress? I haven't seen any commits for half a year already:

https://gitlab.com/linux-kernel/linu.../misc/ntsync.c

It looks like that's because it's stuck waiting for a review. I don't know how long these things normally take, or how much other stuff the maintainer has going on, but I'm starting to think either they either forgot, or getting it merged is a very low priority for them.

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/5805970.DvuYhMxLoT@camazotz/

[shmerl]

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/5805970...xLoT@camazotz/

Thanks for the pointer, yeah looks like no one is reviewing it in a timely fashion. I hope it gets unstuck.

[rmfx]

Still waiting for the fast kernel headers rework that decreases compile time by 2.
What’s the issue with this patch ? To big ?
Waiting for v7.0 ?

[shmerl]

Still waiting for the fast kernel headers rework that decreases compile time by 2.
What’s the issue with this patch ? To big ?
Waiting for v7.0 ?

Yeah, I wonder what's the story with that one.