Linux Kernel 4.17 released, our contributions

BayLibre has continued our contribution to the Linux community as seen with this new version of Linux Kernel 4.17, released on June, 3rd 2018.  An excellent summary of this release can be found at KernelNewbies.

We’re happy to report BayLibre is once again featured in the LWN stats for this release. Corentin Labbe from our team is a Top 10 developer and BayLibre is a Top 20 employer, both by Lines Changed.

Here is a summary of our contributions, organized by SoC family and a summary graph of contributions by developer.

Amlogic SoC family:

  • clocks: major rework to switch to regmap; misc. cleanups
  • improve DT support for WeTek hub and play2
  • MMC: reduce max speed for Odroid-C2 boards after multiple problems reported
  • AXG family: enable hardware RNG
  • HDMI: Add support for DMT modes

Misc:

  • Lots of cleanup and dead code removal (see Lines removed by Corentin)