• Kernel prepatch 7.1-rc1

    From LWN.net@618:250/24 to All on Mon Apr 27 06:40:09 2026
    Linus has released 7.1-rc1 and closed the
    merge window for this release.

    Things look fairly normal, although we do have a few different
    projects to cull some old hardware support to help minimize
    maintenance burden: phasing out i486 support (configs deleted, code
    deletions to follow) and independently starting to remove some
    really old networking hardware support, and removing some SoC
    support that never went anywhere.

    But we're more than making up for any stale code removal with all
    the new features and code added, so the diffstat still shows many
    more lines added than removed.

    https://lwn.net/Articles/1069722/
    --- SBBSecho 3.37-Linux
    * Origin: Palantir * palantirbbs.ddns.net * Pensacola, FL * (618:250/24)